Archive for the 'Advice' Category

Citrix Notification Area Abuse (PNAgent)

April 17, 2008

Recently I was asked a question “How do I turn off PNAgent from the systray?”.  The first reaction is why would you want to do that.  The answer is that you often either do not want to confuse the user or given them too much power to mess up the configuration.  In most cases it [...]

Cursor Blinking

February 8, 2008

There is a feature in operating systems that most of us take for granted.  This is the simple text cursor.   There is a bit of confusion within Windows whether it is called a caret or a cursor (based on the API) but for most people it would just be called a cursor.  The definition of [...]

Cursor Shadowing (Turn It Off)

February 7, 2008

There has been one thing I have been reminded of this last week about mouse cursors.  They can be incredibly sluggish when dealing with remote sessions.  During PortICA development we saw this nature and initially were a bit confused about what could be causing this.  It’s more noticeable on slower connections.  If you move the [...]