Contents tagged with Machine Setup
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Machine Setup: OneNote 2010 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 the Sort Pages powertoy.
The OneNote 2007 version can be found on Daniel Escapa's Blog > Sort Pages powertoy post.
And now there is a new OneNote 2010 version of Sort Pages created by John Guin.
This one handles subpages and also has an undo feature (very nice!).
Just download the zip file from John’s blog and run the setup.exe. Under the Addins tab now you will have a “Sort Pages” button:
Beautiful!
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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 navigating to a new page. That gets annoying very quickly so here is how I shut it off on Windows Server 2008 (and probably Windows Vista too):
Start > Control Panel > Sound
In the Sound Control Panel, select the Sounds tab and then in the Program panel scroll all the way down to the “Windows Explorer” program (it will be near the bottom).
Under the Windows Explorer program is a “Start Navigation” sound:
Select this one (you can use the Test Button to confirm that you have the correct sound) and then change the Sounds dropdown near the bottom to “(None)”.
Hit Apply and OK your way ok of the Sound Control Panel and now no more clicking sound while browsing folders in Explorer or while navigating in Internet Explorer.
This is getting added to my Machine Setup checklist for when I rebuild my development environment.
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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 to open Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio, enable line numbers, and then close both of them so that the setting is saved for the future.
In Microsoft Visual Studio, to enable line numbers open the Options dialog by going to Tools > Options…
Then expand the Text Editor node and then the All Languages node. Now you will see a Line Number checkbox under the Display section on the right-hand side. Check this box to display line numbers.
It is a nearly identical procedure to enable line numbers in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio:
Tools > Options… > Text Editor > All Languages > Line Numbers checkbox
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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 at startup on all of my machines including my wife’s laptop.
From the PureText website:
PureText is basically equivalent to opening Notepad, doing a PASTE, followed by a SELECT-ALL, and then a COPY. The benefit of PureText is performing all these actions with a single Hot-Key and having the result pasted into the current window automatically.
By the way, guess how I pasted in the text above that I copied from the PureText website? :)
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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 setting.
In Windows Vista (and Windows Server 2008) the Send To menu can be edited by modifying the contents of the SendTo folder which can be found here:
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
Just drop a shortcut in there to notepad:
Now whenever you right-click on a file and choose Send To you will have the option of selecting Notepad.
-Jeff
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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 menus to Windows Explorer for being able to quickly compare two files (or folders):
This comes in very handy and since it has a great price (free!) it is one of the tools that gets added to my machine at the beginning.
-Jeff
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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 OneNote, and you will end up with a new button in OneNote:
Clicking this will alphabetically sort the page in the current notebook. (NOTE: As Daniel mentions in his blog there is no undo and no confirmation, so be careful when hitting this button.)
-Jeff
EDIT (2011-01-25): There is now a OneNote 2010 version: http://weblogs.asp.net/jeffwids/archive/2011/01/25/machine-setup-onenote-2010-sort-pages-powertoy.aspx
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