Contents tagged with Microsoft
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Replacement for FrontPage 2003
A friend recently asked:
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The Great Shutdown Debate on Windows 8
Since September, I've been reading the many complaints regarding the process used to shut down a computer running Windows 8. The general theme is that's hard to find, with some folks suggesting that this is emblematic of Windows 8 being difficult to use.
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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 95. I was a rookie Program Manager for this new thing called "accessibility" and he was the go-to developer for just about anything in the guts of Windows.
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Fixing Windows 7 Help and Support
For the past few months I noticed that Windows 7 Help and Support feature wasn’t working correctly. Pressing WIN+F1 or choosing “Help and Support” from the Start menu would open a window, but the help contents weren’t there. Searching for a topic wouldn’t work either.
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MSN Desktop Search
I've been using the latest MSN Desktop Search with the MSN Toolbar. The latest version adds tabbed browsing to Internet Explorer, but I turned it off. Similar to when I spent several weeks with Firefox, I just didn't feel comfortable with the tabs. I'm just too used to ALT+TAB and ALT+F4 to navigate. I know CTRL+TAB and CTRL+F4 will do the same, but why bother?
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Microsoft Windows Internals Review
I’ve always been a bit twiddler – whether it’s doing machine code on an 8-bit RCA COSMAC microprocessor or writing 16-bit drivers for Windows 3.1 or doing Windows Server 2003 storage related development, I’ve never shied away from getting into the meat of the system.
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Firefox Prefetching Google Search Results
Google is taking advantage of a feature of the Mozilla open-source to prefetch the top search result. So, if you search on something, the pages referenced in the first result will be loaded in the background.
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Bill Gates' Think Week - An inside view
Robert Guth of the Wall Street Journal has a fascinating article on Bill Gates’ twice-yearly solo retreats, known inside the company as “Think Week”.
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Grammar check article on Slashdot
I submitted an article to Slashdot today and it was accepted! Within a few hours, it collected over 200 comments.
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Create New Folder in Explorer – why not easier?
Since I started working with the Windows Explorer shell in Windows 95, I’ve often wondered why there isn’t a “New Folder” toolbar button.