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Cedrick Collomb has a handy utility called Unlocker which will tell you which processes are preventing you from deleting a file or folder.
If a delete fails, you get the generic access denied error message from Windows; however, if you have Unlocker installed, then it will popup and display the processes which have a lock on [...]
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100 oldest domain names
Came across this interesting post by “some dude from Orlando” which lists the 100 oldest domain names.
Notable omission is microsoft.com, which wasn’t registered until 1991. It wasn’t until 1995 that Microsoft acknowledged that the Internet was not just a passing fad, and scrapped the soon to be released “Microsoft Network”, its very own version of [...]
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Looking for undo & redo in the new Office 2007 ribbon?
It ain’t in the ribbon, it is in the quick access toolbar. But hey didn’t the ribbon replace toolbars!
Ctrl-Z works fine – thankfully they didn’t change this.
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Microsoft Office 2007 Commands
The new ribbon user interface in Office 2007 takes a little getting used to. Sometimes you just want to do something immediately, but can’t find the command in the ribbon. “So much for the ribbon making my life easier” you mutter.
Microsoft have a number of interactive guides which let you select the command from the old [...]
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Run command on Vista
Turns out some people think the run command has disappeared from Vista – it hasn’t. :)
The new search bar (in the start panel) will not only search your computer, it will also run any command you type.
However, if you miss seeing the old Run command in your start panel, try this:
Right click on your taskbar; [...]
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Somehow, for whatever reason, Windows decided to display files using the last modified date & time as the sorting order for the common open and save as dialogs.
Why?
Good question.
I have been using Windows since the bad old days of Windows 2.0 (circa 1987) and for the life of me have never had this happen before [...]
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I wanted to be able to easily email a file from a utility I wrote, and thought “wouldn’t it be so much easier if I could incorporate the ‘Sent To Mail Receipient’ functionality available within Windows” so I didn’t have to worry about which email application is actually installed. I know this will typically limit [...]
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Microsoft Office 2007 introduces a whole lot of new features – revamped UI, new file formats etc. However, one thing is missing, which is support for the Outlook protocol (outlook://).
Developers wanting to open emails from other applications could use the Outlook protocol to get Microsoft Outlook to display them. For example, outlook:00000000AEB50BC0928BD511A2700000E8D73A91C4A56101.
This is all well for [...]
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Microsoft has released a developer toolbar for Microsoft Internet Explorer which may be useful to SEO folk for ad-hoc analysis of individual pages.
For example, it allows the details of the commonly used description and keywords meta tags without having to troll through the raw html source code.
Tooltips are used to allow the all of the [...]
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The Microsoft WOW Moment
Microsoft is unveiling two of its flagship products, Vista and Office 2007 tomorrow (Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007) with a “Wow” moment planned for 10 a.m. with Mike Sievert, Corporate Vice President, Windows Client Marketing.
Steve Ballmer will be at Best Buy New York if you really want to see/hear him, but, the “Must Not Miss” is [...]
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