Hi there. I got a HP laptop, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB HD, Dual Core 2.3 GHz, Vista
Ultimate 64 bits, NO extra software added except Office 07.
Boot time until hard disk stops about 4 to 5 minutes. The Event Viewer is
full of warnings and some criticals and erros, such as:

i have a visual studio 6 compiled application that can no longer load because
.NET 2.0.50727 aspnet_perf.dll is trying to load msvcrt80.dll.  This is
happening when i load WMI and am trying to query some (non-performance and
non-.NET related) values.  How can i prevent this from ...

Different performance showing a Form on a Development client and a
"normal" client.
Question 1:
I created a dialog (a simple AboutBox) in .NET and display the dialog

Which code is really better in term of performance, A or B?
A) list_of_strings[0] == ""
B) list_of_strings[0].Length.Equals(0)

I have an application that has already been built for financial industry.
Different developers have worked on it, that's why it has performance issues
in it. I have to evaluate it and then bring up with my suggestions. There
are different ways to do it:

My computer experienced a hard shut down on 3/1 during a power outage.  When
I turned the computer back, a message appeared stating "memory dump".  Spypot
intercepted this action and gave me the opportunity to deny or allow.  I
really don't know my computer was trying to do and ...

I have a Web Service running as a Net Service which needs to do different
tasks in different user contexts.
I dont want to change Web service context to make it more privildged so I
created a COM+ component and hosted my Dll which changes context and does all