SSMS display issues

Recently I installed SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in a brand new laptop with a NVIDIA card.

Soon both myself and a colleague experienced some screen redraw issues.  Colors, toolbar buttons missing, nearly impossible to work with.

After installing and uninstalling several NVIDIA drivers, disabling 3d physics, changing compatibility modes for the SSMS.exe application and pulling whatever hair I have out trying to figure out a way to work with it, I found the solution for me…  maybe for you as well.

Since then… no more funny colors or artifacts anywhere…

 

 

Visual Studio Quirks… Once a file filter always a file filter…

Thanks to Gui for this awesome fix…  Once you filter for file types in the global search.

To remove this annoying file type filter in visual studio, go to the registry editor

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Find

And modify the Filter key to be an empty string.

Slow performance on VMs hosted in Hyper V

Very disappointed after purchasing a fairly powerfull DELL server to find out that any network access to them (TCP/etc) was very very slow!!!!

Well I luckily found this blog article http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/it-hints-and-tips/slow-network-performance-on-new-hyper-v-server/

And there finding that I was also using Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit network cards, I simply switched this setting.

and BAAM!  Incredible difference!