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The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video (awesome 25 minutes, via: Scott Hanselman – G+)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/21

A couple of weeks ago, Scott Hanselman posted a great Windows 8 instructional video.

It contains all the stuff that geeks like me will find out themselves over time, but in a well paced and complete manner:

… to give new users to Windows 8 a near-complete understanding of the major features including the Start Screen, Hot Corners, Full Screen Apps, Desktop Apps, The Store, Browsing, Doing Social Stuff, using the Mouse effectively and exploiting keyboard Shortcuts.

It also shows what a power user like Scott uses besides the standard Microsoft Windows/Office combo.

Oh: and it includes the “Windows-X” shortcut (:
(no: not the mobility center any more)

Recommended watch!

–jeroen

via: (12) Scott Hanselman – Google+ – The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video. It’s 25 minutes….

Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Windows, Windows 8 | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Google Chrome funny error message: trueAre you sure you want to leave this page?

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/21

Got a nice error message from Google Chrome today and wonder what the “true” means (:

true

The text is this:

[Confirm Navigation]

true

Are you sure you want to leave this page?

[Leave this Page]    [Stay on this page]

You can use Ctrl-C to copy, then you get the text below:

trueAre you sure you want to leave this page

That means it is not a standard Windows MessageBox, as pressing Ctrl-C there would copy the title and buttons as well.

–jeroen

via: 20130221-funny-google-chrome-error-message-true–Are-you-sure-you-want-to-leave-this-page | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

Posted in Chrome, Power User, Web Browsers, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Skype and the new Team Explorer – Brian Harry’s blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/18

Interesting, especially since Microsoft is moving Live Messenger users to Skype shortly: Skype and the new Team Explorer – Brian Harry’s blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Development, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools, Windows | Leave a Comment »

twm’s blog » Blog Archive » 3.5 gigabyte text file – meet LargeTextViewer

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/16

Cool tool: twm’s blog » Blog Archive » 3.5 gigabyte text file – meet LargeTextViewer.

Posted in Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Map WebDAV Drive tool: works in Windows 8 and Windows 7

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/15

Wow, I wish I had found this tool a lot earlier: Map WebDAV Drive.

–jeroen

via: windows – Mapping a Network Drive with Delphi WITHOUT WNetAddConnection2 – Stack Overflow.

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Tagged: , , , , | Leave a Comment »

How to Set the /3GB Startup Switch in Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/08

Hardly needed any more, but since we are migrating some systems away from Windows Server 2003 x86 but before that need to resolve some capacity issues (and need to get PAE working): How to Set the /3GB Startup Switch in Windows.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Disabling the Microsoft Security Essentials service by commandline: MsMpSvc

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/01

There are (rare and offline) occasions where you want to want to stop/start the service that provides Microsoft Security Essentials.

A few notes first:

  • Only do this when you are off-line
  • Be sure to enable the Microsoft Security Essentials by starting its service as soon as possible
  • You need to be Admin (and on Vista and up with UAC using elevated security)

This is how: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

START: Start a program, **even if it is not on the PATH** ideal to start various versions of apps from DOS

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/29

A while ago, I had to adapt a DOS app that used one specific version of Excel to do some batch processing so it would support multiple versions of Excel on multiple versions of Windows.

One of the big drawbacks of DOS applications is that the command lines you can use are even shorter than Windows applications, which depending you how you call an application are:

This is how the DOS app written in Clipper (those were the days, it was even linked with Blinker :) started Excel:

c:\progra~1\micros~2\office11\excel.exe parameters
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890
          1         2         3         4

The above depends on 8.3 short file names that in turn depend on the order in which similar named files and directories have been created.

The trick around this, and around different locations/versions of an application, is to use START to find the right version of Excel.

The reason it works is because in addition to PATH, it checks the App Paths portions in the registry in this order to find an executable: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Encoding, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Unicode, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

AkelPad Editor: tiny, and functional. Too bad it steals the Alt-letter keyboard shortcuts

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/25

Just found out about the AkelPad Editor.

It is tiny, has a lot of functionality.

Too bad that Alt+V does not go to the View menu, but is bound to a kind-of-past functionality.

Similar for other Alt+letter combinations in their keyboard shortcuts.

They should have used Ctrl+Alt+letter combinations for it.

So I continue my search for a good, tiny, syntax highlighting and multi-encoding capable NotePad alternative.

–jeroen

Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Microsoft Office Communicator: error message with ID 504 means “you think the other party is on-line, but it is off-line”

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17

Every once in a while, Office Communicator indicates a contact is not off-line and allows me to send messages to him/her, but then gives an error 504.

The reason is that the off-line status replicates slowly, so you were not aware your contact went off-line while typing the message.

The Error ID 504 is just an unfrienly way of saying “your contact went off-line, but you didn’t know that when sending the message, and I don’t have a friendly way of telling you this”.

–jeroen

via: Communicator 2007 R2 Help on Error ID 504.

Posted in Communicator, Office, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

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