I had bought a Kensington Bluetooth USB adapter a while back. I bought it to transfer some stuff to my phone for which I lost the USB connection cable. I used the adapter only for a small time time at the start. After a long gap, I tried using it again on a new laptop with Windows XP. Immediately after connecting, Windows XP identified it as a Blutooth device and asked for automatically downloading and installing the driver. I said OK, since I did not know where I had placed the original CD which came with the device. The installation was successful and I could see my phone on the list of devices. But I could not transfer files to the phone which is what I wanted. I also did not like the interface where only one file could be transferred at a time and there was no mention of where the file is going into the phone. The interface which came with Kensington came had a nice File Browser just like a USB memory drive.
I tried searching the net for Kensington software and found several versions available online. I un-installed the Microsoft installed drivers and then installed those downloaded. But each of them gave an error saying that I do not have the license to use that software.
So I searched and found my old software CD which came with the USB device and tried installing the software from there. Even this one gave the same license error. I tried several re-installs, restarts, plugging and unplugging the device and nothing helped. I even tried deleting some entries from registry which had the word Bluetooth in it. All this time the software did not even recognize the device.
As a final try I tried connecting the device and when Windows said it found a new hardware, I directed it to look for the driver in the CD drive where I had the CD which came with the device. It found the drive and installed something. And by magic, the Bluetooth icon became white from red. I could then connect to the phone and browse my files. I had some different kind of errors popping from file explorer while browsing which I think is because of my fiddling with registry earlier. I need to fix them now. But the file browser is working great and I could transfer files.
When I reinstalled OS once again the bluetooth device gave problem. The microsoft support page at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883258 helped uninstalling the windows bluetooth drivers and getting the Kensington device and software to work again.
For the last one week, whenever I tried to start a new mail message from Microsoft Outlook the window for composing the message opened up full screen maximized. I have a big monitor and I have to resize it every time to a reasonable size. I tried keeping it small before closing Outlook. But Outlook never seemed to remember the size. This was annoying. I remembered that I used full screen to view a Word document recently. So I opened Word again, which came out again full screen, resized it to a regular size and then closed it. Then again I opened Outlook and then tried starting a new message. It finally opened in normal size just like Word.
Aronian, Carlsen, Radjabov and Anand all drew their last round games. They all played long fighting games. Gelfand finally won a game against Eljanov. The final standings are available here. It was exciting for the last 15 days to watch all these top guys play. Now we have to wait for Morelia-Linares which starts on Feb 15. Anand, Topalov, Shirov, Leko, Ivanchuk, Aronian, Radjabov and Carlsen are playing there.
The corus 2008 super GM chess tournament is going on. With one round to go Aronian and Carlsen are leading with 7.5 points. Radjabov and Anand are close behind with 7 points. Tomorrow Carlsen has white against Radjabov. Anand has white against Kramnik and Aronian has black against Judit Polgar.
- Gelfand is in bad form and is the only one without a win.
- Ivanchuk is the only undefeated guy.
- Ivanchuk is also the one with maximum number of draws with one win and 10 draws.
- Both Carlsen and Topalov have the least number of draws at 5.