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Over on the (unofficial) SevenForums site, one user has come up with a way to insert spaces into your Windows 7 taskbar so you can create separated icon groups. The trick involves creating some blank shortcuts that lead to a fake program and pinning those shortcuts to the taskbar. To facilitate…

If you’re a Media Center PC user with a large movie collection, you’ll want to go grab this small .bat file created by Jon from thehtpc.net. The file will organize your messy, unorganized movie collection for you automatically – all you have to do is click. To use the file, just place it into your…

When working in C# and C++ it is often useful to be able to switch between matching sets of delimiters.  This video shows you how to do this quickly and easily.  General:  CTRL + ] (move); CTRL + SHIFT + ]  (select)  Visual C++ 2:  CTRL…

Learn how to use some of the new features in the Recent Projects List within Visual Studio 2010. Original Blog Post: …

This video will show you how to use the new box selection feature in Visual Studio 2010.    General:  SHIFT + ALT + [UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT] ARROW; ALT + Left Mouse Button Command:  Edit.Line[Up, Down]ExtendColumn; Edit.Char[Left, Right]ExtendColumn Versions: …

In this video I'll show you how to use the new box selection features to replace multiple lines of code quickly.   General:  SHIFT + ALT + [UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT] ARROW; ALT + Left Mouse Button Command:  Edit.Line[Up, Down]ExtendColumn; Edit.Char[Left, Right]ExtendColumn…

A friend of mine just tweeted an interesting tip from LifeHacker: you can add your Dropbox folder directly to the Windows 7 Start Menu. For those of you that don’t know, Dropbox is a file synchronization service that lets you keep files on multiple computers in sync similar to Windows Live Sync or…

A member of the WinVistaClub.com forums recently posted a great tip for mimicking (sort of) the Federated Search Connector functionality found in Windows 7 on your Windows XP/Vista PC. In case you don’t know, Federated Search is a new feature of Windows 7 that lets you search internet web sites…

Mike Halsey just came up with an ingenious way to add system icons like the Control Panel, Recycle Bin, Devices and Printers, and more to the new Windows 7 taskbar, all while keeping them separate from the other icons already docked there. Mike’s hack builds off of the WinVistaClub forum tip about…

In Windows Vista, you had to go through a lot of steps to change the default settings for the Windows Start button, but in Windows 7, changing its behavior is easy. If you want to be able to click on “Start” and then choose “Sleep” or “Hiberate” instead of “Shut Down,” (or vice versa) you can make…