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• Defrag: Change Pinned Sites Icons, Laptop WiFi Router, Full Path for File

  4 days ago

  Duncan - When do we get 3D! 

   

• TWC9: 4 Years of TWC9, Kinect SDK, C++, & more

  4 days ago

  Happy 4th guys!

• Defrag - Unplayable Media Center files, Missing RAM, Closing Cores

  Nov 30, 2011 at 2:20 PM

  I bought a Nyco after Gov talking about it - and it is working fine.  It's reduced the field by about 2' (as it promises).  I have noticed if you get too close (<5') that the kinect jestures do not work - it really is for a 10'-8' --> 8'-6' reduction.

  (Adults and kids were playing Kinect Adventures, Fruit Ninja and Kinect Sports)

• Defrag - Driver Store, Touch Tips, Defragging HDD

  Nov 16, 2011 at 2:16 PM

  RE: Product Key - assuming you can guess the correct SKU of Windows (probably Home on laptops), you'll still need media to do the install. 

  The product key on a laptop does not use the media that Microsoft provides via MSDN, Retail or to Enterprises.  You need to get the media from the OEM so that the product key works.

• Defrag: Ejecting an Internal Drive, Windows on a Thumb Drive, Disable Aero Shake

  Nov 08, 2011 at 4:03 PM

  RE: New context menus

  Here's an example of adding the debugger context menu for *.dmp

  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dmp]
  @="VisualStudio.dmp.10.0"

  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.dmp.10.0\shell]
  @="WinDbg_x64_public"

  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.dmp.10.0\shell\WinDbg_x86_public]
  @="Open with WinDbg x86"

  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.dmp.10.0\shell\WinDbg_x86_public\Command]
  @="\"C:\\Debuggers_x86\\windbg.exe\" -z \"%1\" -y \"SRV*C:\\Symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols\""

  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.dmp.10.0\shell\WinDbg_x64_public]
  @="Open with WinDbg x64 (Public)"

  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.dmp.10.0\shell\WinDbg_x64_public\Command]
  @="\"C:\\Debuggers\\windbg.exe\" -z \"%1\" -y \"SRV*C:\\Symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols\""

   

• Defrag: Disable Show Desktop, Hide User Accounts, Accurate Energy Usage

  Oct 31, 2011 at 5:04 PM

  RE: Is there a way to disable the Show Desktop 'button' in bottom right corner?

  I played with this yesterday on my HTPC - you can right click it and unselect 'Peek at desktop', or unselect it in the Taskbar properties dialog...  Via either way, it changes the behavior so you have to click the button to show the desktop (instead of hover)

  Great way to make it so a mouse flick doesn't invoke peek.

• Defrag: Disable Show Desktop, Hide User Accounts, Accurate Energy Usage

  Oct 26, 2011 at 10:59 AM

  The other way to get the window back is to just use Aero-Dock. Press Win-Left or Win-Right and the DWM will make sure the window is on a screen.

• Defrag: Disable Show Desktop, Hide User Accounts, Accurate Energy Usage

  Oct 25, 2011 at 5:08 PM

  You still have Win-M confused with Win-D.  Win-D toggles desktop display regardless of whether the window has minimize support or not. Win-M just does minimize on 'minimize' supported windows; some dialogs may remain.

  Note, if you hit Win-M a 2nd time, it records that zero windows were minimized, and then causes Windows-Shift-M to restore nothing... So you have to be careful not to use Win-M multiple times.

  Another thing to note, if Win-D hides a full screen app (e.g. Media Player), it restores it as windowed. Win-M hides it and Win-Shift-M restores it as full screen (what you would expect).

  So, in my books, Win-M is better than Win-D.

  Andrew Richards.

• Defrag: Shortcuts, Multimonitor setup, USB Wifi Extender

  Oct 18, 2011 at 3:40 PM

  @briped: Yeah, just habit.  It stems from my habitual minimizing of maximized applications.

  My work means that I build up a lot of windows while doing research while debugging (I'm an Sr. Escalation Engineer for Windows) - IE windows, multiple dumps, RDP, VS, the case system, case notes, etc..  I leave most of the windows minimized (resetting my state with Win-M regularily). I throw windows of interest to one of my 4 monitors (maximized) - using the Aero-Dock extensively.  When I finish my current task (support case), I close the apps via the task bar (this saves me moving the mouse over 6000+ pixels of width) - I run the task bar with no grouping, have small icons and the bar is 2 rows high (mainly so I see the date and time always though).

• Defrag: Shortcuts, Multimonitor setup, USB Wifi Extender

  Oct 18, 2011 at 2:13 PM

  @briped - I'm in the habit of doing Win-M and Win-L when I go home for the night --- I use M instead of D as it is on the same side of the keyboard (as L).

  The Windows Help has a good list of shortcuts under a topic called "Keyboard shortcuts".

  Windows logo key keyboard shortcuts
  Remote Desktop Connection keyboard shortcuts

  Of note, the RDP shortcut section is useful for the equivalent keystoke for commands that always go to the host (eg. Ctrl-Alt-Del vs. Ctrl-Alt-End).

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