December 12, 2007 in Windows Enhancements by Michael Chrisman 0 Comments
Have you ever opened an application window only to have it open off the screen (or the top part off the screen)? This is common for people who have laptops and have dual monitors at there desk. Well there is a set of keystrokes that will get that window back …
September 18, 2007 in Windows Enhancements by Michael Chrisman 0 Comments
Microsoft now has their own site for translating text and web pages to/from languages. Although Altavista (http://babelfish.altavista.com) has had one for years and Google (http://www.google.com/translate_t) even has one, Microsoft's has a couple of really cool features the other don't. While all will let you pick the to/from languages, Microsoft's gives …
September 07, 2007 in Windows Enhancements by Michael Chrisman 0 Comments
I have been using Windows Live Writer (beta) since release 1. I recently upgraded to Release 3 and I have to say, this probably the best off-line blogging tool. Now if you are saying that you don't blog on Windows Live Spaces, please keep reading as this does still pertain …
August 14, 2007 in Windows Enhancements by Michael Chrisman 0 Comments
I recently came across a tool that helps you manage your windows when you only have one monitor (great for laptops or large monitors). It's called WinSplit Revolution and it's free! Basically when it's running, you make active a window and then press Alt-Ctrl and then a number on the …
April 06, 2007 in Windows Enhancements by Michael Chrisman 0 Comments
With all the great (and many free) IDEs out there, there are still times when you just want a quick simple editor like NotePad (or VI for you UNIX people). But NotePad can be very limited in functionality. This has opened a market for replacement apps like UltraEdit. I recently …
March 25, 2007 in Windows Enhancements by Michael Chrisman 0 Comments
Here are a couple of pages that have a list of free software tools from Microsoft. This is for Windows Vista: Free Windows Vista Tools This is for 2000/XP (and most work in Vista too): Free Microsoft Software
March 02, 2007 in Windows Enhancements by Michael Chrisman 0 Comments
We recently purchased a new laptop and it came with Windows Vista Home Premium. The first thing we found out is that my Wife's companys VPN software does not work with Vista and they have no idea when they will have a version that will work with Vista. Since this …
March 01, 2007 in Windows Enhancements by Michael Chrisman 0 Comments
It is often very useful to be able to right click on a folder in explorer and have it open a command prompt, open to that folder. The following registry edit will add a "Command Prompt Here" to the right click menu for folder. Run RegEdit.exe Locate the following: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/CLASSES/folder/shell …
March 01, 2007 in Windows Enhancements by Michael Chrisman 0 Comments
MSDE is a version of MS SQL Server that is designed for desktop/development. It comes with Office Pro and Visual Studio. The problem is there are no installation instruction for it. Well, here is how to do it. Installing MSDE Location: [VS install folder]setup Command: setup /qb+ INSTANCENAME=VSDOTNET DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=1 SAPWD=secret …
March 01, 2007 in Windows Enhancements by Michael Chrisman 0 Comments
There is still a need to run applications as batch or CMD files. The problem is that if you double click on the file from Windows Explorer, Windows runs the command, but do not pause at the end so you can see the output that it had. The following tweak …
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