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• Balloon Timeout and Notification Duration

  Today I was reading a new post on one of my favorite blogs, The Old New Thing by longtime Microsoft developer Raymond Chen. I got to know Raymond in the waning days of 1994 when we were working on "Chicago", the codename for what would become Windows... Posted May 20 2011, 02:49 PM by ChuckOp with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Accessibility, UI, Programming

• Apple Mouse Marks Mighty Change

  Various pundits want to proclaim Apple's new multi-button mouse as a major departure and admission that clean design (in the form of a one-button can't be screwed up manner) isn't always acceptable to the consumer. Recall that the original Macintosh keyboard... Posted Aug 17 2005, 10:28 AM by ChuckOp with | with no comments Filed under: Accessibility, UI

• Copy message box text to the clipboard

  Ever get a error message and need to write it down? Particular one with an obscure error number like 0x80040e09? Starting with Windows 2000, you can copy the entire contents of a message box to the clipboard by pressing CTRL+C . Software developers often... Posted Apr 08 2004, 05:53 PM by ChuckOp with | with 59 comment(s) Filed under: Accessibility, Tip, UI

• History of keyboard access in Windows

  This is a response to a posting on the Windows Off-Topic Tech mailing list concerning keyboard access to the taskbar... If you go back in time far enough, it doesn't. When the NT4 team first had the 95 shell forced on them, keyboard access to the systray... Posted Feb 02 2004, 08:07 PM by ChuckOp with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Accessibility, UI

• Keyboard access to the Windows taskbar

  [Edited 2011-03-31 to fix a typo. Also note that WIN+T in Windows Vista/Windows 7 will set focus to the first taskbar item] [Edited 2004-01-29 to fix mistakes] Windows 95 introduced the “taskbar.” Designed to remind users what programs were running and... Posted Jan 28 2004, 01:40 AM by ChuckOp with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Accessibility, Tip, UI, Keyboard

• Resize all columns in detail view

  One of my favorite keyboard shortcuts in Windows is CTRL+NUMPAD+Plus . Often, when viewing a folder with the details view on, the columns might be sized badly. The filename column might be too narrow, cutting off the names. Or another column might be... Posted Jan 06 2004, 02:46 PM by ChuckOp with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Accessibility, Tip, UI