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re: The QuickCD PowerToy, a brief look back
@MikeBMcL...Looking forward, I'm sure the next technology will be interesting (at least technically), but looking back, I wonder if SSDs will even be remembered. We don't associate the contents of an...
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re: The QuickCD PowerToy, a brief look back
@voo Problem is, if you can't remember what that program is called (or rather, more to the point, how it is labelled), you have to scroll through a non-hierarchical list. At least with a hierarchical...
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re: The QuickCD PowerToy, a brief look back
@Paul.Sadly that was never my experience. If I wanted to open Photoshop that you've just installed, is it in your start menu under "Accessories", "Adobe", "Macromedia", "Photoshop" or "Adobe...
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re: The debugger lied to you because it the CPU was still juggling data in...
@alegrl: I got tired of the critical section showing up in the profiler.
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re: The QuickCD PowerToy, a brief look back
@Matt: "And ever since Windows7 has had it..."Minor nit, but Vista introduced the Win7-style start menu.
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re: The QuickCD PowerToy, a brief look back
@Matt:It's fine if you have no need for the start menu. I still often like browsing for what I want, so whether or not it's nostalgic phoney-baloney I'd like to have it.
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re: The QuickCD PowerToy, a brief look back
@mikeb: In that case you can still do so. Put a shortcut on your desktop (or hell - pin it to your taskbar) pointing to C:\Users\...\StartMenu.All the clunky fun of being unable to find what you want...
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re: The QuickCD PowerToy, a brief look back
Probably not even a need for such a shortcut, because the new start screen can show all the installed programs, metro or not, pinned or not. I forgot exactly how to trigger it though... maybe start...
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re: Why are there both FIND and FINDSTR programs, with unrelated feature sets?
I don't remember when FINDSTR became an official part of Windows, but my recollection was that at some point after Windows 2000, a decision was made not to ship RK tools anymore. Tools either had to...
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re: Why do I get notified for changes to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT when nobody is...
@Brian_EE: I make a point of rating the new article every day now. If enough of us do that it should flood out xpclient's silliness.I like the way Codeproject handles ratings. It has a system where...
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re: Why do I get notified for changes to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT when nobody is...
Statistically speaking, sycophants are just as bad a trolls.
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re: Why do I get notified for changes to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT when nobody is...
@Barf: Really, the problem is people who rate something consistently high or low.The bit that gets me is that if xpclient thinks that every single post by Raymond is cr4p, why does he not just go away...
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@Matt: see attractive nuisancefiller text to get past spam filter
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re: Why do I get notified for changes to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT when nobody is...
I wonder why RegNotifyChangeKeyValue function name in the article has to include the invisible hyphen characters, so if I copy-paste it to the help viewer it doesn't find anything.[So that it...
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@alegrl: Pro tip: the copy in the declaration doesn't have them.more filler text
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re: Why do I get notified for changes to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT when nobody is...
> Upon receiving this explanation, the customer understood what was going on, and also remarked that they were going to look to see if they could register their notification on a location that isn't...
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re: Why do I get notified for changes to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT when nobody is...
If formatting was important, this blog (main page) would display correctly in other browsers than IE.[Looks good to me in FF17. -Raymond]
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re: Have you found any TheDailyWTF-worthy code during the development of...
The blogsoftware keep raring messages. Please fix this bug, ASAP.
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re: Why do I get notified for changes to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT when nobody is...
Works for me in Chrome.
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blogs.msdn.com/.../oldnewthing looks messed up for me on Chrome 18 for Android. The blog entries only occupy the left ~55% of the screen.
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