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I get asked this question often, but not often enough to remember the answer without a quick trip to Google. By default, when searching for files containing a specific string, Windows XP only searches registered file types. To change this behavior to...
Here's a great little tool in case you forget your administrator password... http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
I'm looking at options for modding one of my XBox machines, and here is a good site for information: www.xbox-scene.com .
I picked up a copy of Mike Gunderloy's Coder To Developer book the other day and did something I rarely do with a technical book - I read it from cover to cover. I've read several reviews of the book and find that they range from rave to rage . The typical...
If you ever need to delete an NTFS partition from DOS, the Windows NT 3.1 Resource Kit has the solution. Download the kit, extract the DELPART.EXE utility to a DOS boot disk, boot from the disk and then run the utility. It's self-explanatory from there...
It's a good idea to be explicit with parentheses when building arithmetic expressions. For example, at first the following code doesn't look like it would cause a problem: Dim i As Integer = 1 i = i + i - i Console.Writeline(i) Executing this code will...
When I'm interviewing candidates for a development position I typically write a number down and ask them to convert it from decimal to binary. Of course this is a very minor factor in the interview, but I find it interesting to see their responses. It...
I've been tinkering with Linux lately and one of my favorite KDE features is the desktop switcher. Tonight I found Virtual Desktop Manager , a Microsoft PowerToy that does basically the same thing. It looks promising so far. Update: This thing was really...
While reading chapter 4 of the MSPress “Inside Microsoft Visual Studio.NET“ book, I ran across this paragraph: “ By right-clicking on a macro in Macro Explorer, you can bring up a shortcut menu that lets you work with the macro directly...
I’ve been programming for more than 20 years now and I’m as passionate about it today as when I started. I’m one of those fortunate people that found what they loved to do and then succeeded at turning their hobby into a successful,...
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