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Machine Setup: Turn-off clicking sound when browsing folders: In the past I usually have had the sound turned off on my computer but recently I have been leaving it on. With the sound on, browsing folders in Explorer or navigating in Internet Explorer would play a clicking sound whenever changing folders or...
Posted 31 October 2009 11:04 AM by Jeff Widmer | with no comments
Filed under: Machine Setup, Windows Server 2008

Machine Setup: How to enable Line Numbers in Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio: I like to have line numbers visible when working in both Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio. By default, line numbers are turned off in both environments. One of the first things I do when setting up a new development machine is...
Posted 23 October 2009 09:16 PM by Jeff Widmer | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Visual Studio, Machine Setup, SQL Server Management Studio

PureText is Pure Gold!: PureText from Steve Miller is a very simple and extremely useful utility that makes the Windows-V hot key combination paste non-formatted text instead of formatted text. I use it all over the place and I make sure it is installed and set to run...
Posted 06 September 2009 10:08 PM by Jeff Widmer | with no comments
Filed under: Machine Setup, Tips & Tricks, Utilities

Machine Setup: Add Notepad to Send To Menu: I always customize my Send To menu to include Notepad. Having notepad in the SendTo menu allows me to easily open any file and just view the contents in notepad. Comes in handy when you do not want to load an application just to grab a config...
Posted 10 June 2009 04:37 AM by Jeff Widmer | with no comments
Filed under: Machine Setup, SendTo, Notepad

Machine Setup: SourceGear DiffMerge: Another tool I always have on my development machine in SourceGear’s free DiffMerge tool ( http://sourcegear.com/diffmerge/ ) Not only is this the diff/merge tool from Visual Studio or SourceGear Vault but it also adds some very nice and useful context...
Posted 25 May 2009 06:20 AM by Jeff Widmer | with no comments
Filed under: Machine Setup, SourceGear

Machine Setup: OneNote Sort Pages Powertoy: I use Microsoft OneNote a lot for notes, tasks, projects, reference, etc. One of the addins that I recommend for OneNote is Daniel Escapa’s Sort Pages powertoy . Just run the setup application that you can get from his blog, close and reopen...
Posted 19 May 2009 07:11 AM by Jeff Widmer | with no comments
Filed under: OneNote, Machine Setup