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re: How long does it take for a notification icon to stop appearing in the...
Wow 640k is troll today. It might be possible to cause specific removal by changing system time inappropriately, but the side effects of that make me shudder.
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re: What if my application is really two applications bundled into a single...
OK Dumb Question: How do I set task button by API call rather than COM interop to some library that calls in 100MB of dependencies for .NET applications.
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re: My colleague picked a good day to go out and catch a baseball game
Might be more interesting to wonder how nobody can be credited with a perfect game after the pitchers for both sides have a perfect game except for the blocking factor.
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re: My colleague picked a good day to go out and catch a baseball game
@GregM: Thanks for letting those of us outside the World (Series) know what a perfect game actually is.
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@joshua, Microsoft's shell folks are deathly allergic to C#. If they even use managed c++, they will have hives for a month. As a result, typically all shell, dwm, etc. involves interop....
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re: My colleague picked a good day to go out and catch a baseball game
Yes, I sort of answered. Not being a US person I know almost nothing about baseball so have little idea what x may be. Assaulting the officials, perhaps.
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re: My colleague picked a good day to go out and catch a baseball game
A pitcher starts the game and gets two outs. He then swaps positions with the right fielder, who throws one pitch and gives up a hit. The pitcher swaps positions back and pitches a perfect game the...
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re: What if my application is really two applications bundled into a single...
If Microsoft hadn't seriously messed-up their C libraries, I'd just build a native DLL to do the P/Invoke to COM inversion, but too bad really.
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[Um, no, that's not what happened. Documentation links are filtered because the same code that does Start menu filtering also does Taskbar filtering. I like how you assume that something you don't like...
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re: What happened to the Windows 2000 "Language settings for the system"...
Don't worry Raymond; the window titlebar buttons don't appear in Windows Live Mail's RSS reader, so there's something to grief/be happy about!
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re: Charles Petzold's Programming Windows Sixth Edition has reached Release...
Worse than that, when I tried to buy it the lead-in page says "now $30" but adding it to my cart it's $50. And their buy 2 get a third free discount code appears to give a random amount off (three...
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re: How do I customize how my application windows are grouped in the Taskbar?
And going the other way (Two EXE's in the same group) has been possible since XP with the undocumented "TaskbarExceptionsIcons" registry key. And for people that don't like grouping? Explorer does not...
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re: How do I customize how my application windows are grouped in the Taskbar?
Uhm, URLs can't contain spaces. Any such nonsense is the browser messing with the user by automatically doing substitution.
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@alegr1: A quick (your favorite search engine) search to get the complete URL to the old article, followed by a Wayback archive searc (at www.archive.org) yielded the following historical snapshot of...
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re: How do I customize how my application windows are grouped in the Taskbar?
@WndSks: The screenshot in that blog post shows two invocations of calc and one of notepad. The taskbar shows 2 buttons for calc and one for notepad. I think someone doesn't know what Explorer means...
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re: How do I customize how my application windows are grouped in the Taskbar?
@Avi: I think the complaint is that the two buttons for calc are connected to each other whereas the other buttons have space between them. I tried it on my machine and it looks a bit odd.
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re: How do I customize how my application windows are grouped in the Taskbar?
@John: That's my thought as well. Unfortunately for the whiners, though, that's never what Explorer meant by "Never combine", at least in my experience.
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re: How do I customize how my application windows are grouped in the Taskbar?
VB.NET WinForms version... (I hope I got the declare correct!) Public Class frm1EXE2Group 'Reference: blogs.msdn.com/.../10341464.aspx Declare Function SetCurrentProcessExplicitAppUserModelID Lib...
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re: How do I customize how my application windows are grouped in the Taskbar?
Once again: Total end user control over the dumbed down Taskbar: rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker
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re: How do I customize how my application windows are grouped in the Taskbar?
@WndSks: Combine means something different than 'group'. Combine means they become ONE icon/entry. Which it is not doing. Don't see the problem, really.
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