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re: How do I customize how my application windows are grouped in the Taskbar?
@Avi, @Draks, MS is to blame here. They changed the meaning of "group" and "combine". In XP, there was "grouping" with actually the buttons were combined. In Windows 7, what was "grouping" behavior in...
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re: How do I customize how my application windows are grouped in the Taskbar?
My point is that you cannot get a Win95-Win2000 style taskbar without 3rd party apps in Win7+, at least in XP and Vista you have a choice. Combining/Grouping makes no sense to me, I might have two...
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re: How do I customize how my application windows are grouped in the Taskbar?
@WndSks: Â That's what the preview thumbnails are for. Â Sure, you can say you don't like them, and that's a legitimate point of view. Â Over time, however, I've found for me that they're usually better...
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re: Sorry we got cut off, my phone just auto-rebooted
As Bjarne Stroustrup put it... I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
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re: Sorry we got cut off, my phone just auto-rebooted
We have a conference phone in our office that does this fairly regularly, even when it is not in use. Â You can be having a meeting in the room and suddenly the phone will beep (with a distinctive...
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re: How do I customize how my application windows are grouped in the Taskbar?
In my experience, the preview thumbnails are practically useless. Â Three Notepad windows always look identical from the thumbnail. Â For that matter, I generally have the same problem with multiple...
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re: Sorry we got cut off, my phone just auto-rebooted
The historical note makes me wonder if it in about 4 years from now will begin to come entries about Windows 8 and Metro development?
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re: Sorry we got cut off, my phone just auto-rebooted
Just wait until your car's engine needs to reboot while you're driving 70 MPH.
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re: How do I customize how my application windows are grouped in the Taskbar?
@JamesJohnston, that is sometimes a problem. Â Sometimes you can tell from the shape what the right document is, though. Â It's probably easier if you're looking at code instead of text. Web browsers are...
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re: Sorry we got cut off, my phone just auto-rebooted
We recently had a major internal network outage at my work and the entire building couldn't access anything on the network. Â Since I couldn't email the IT Helpdesk to let them know, I picked up my...
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re: Sorry we got cut off, my phone just auto-rebooted
"The more they overthink the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the drain." -Montgomery Scott.
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re: Psychic debugging: Why Chinese characters don't work
@Alex: Good to know I can count 10 types of people in the world.
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re: Psychic debugging: Why Chinese characters don't work
My guess was "You didn't use a supported font".
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re: Psychic debugging: Why Chinese characters don't work
Does this blog work? Right now, I have to repost comments very often.
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re: Psychic debugging: Why Chinese characters don't work
Awww. I was expecting a discourse on the work ethic of colourful Chinese individuals. Oh wait - blog title misinterpretation was yesterday's thing.
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re: Psychic debugging: Why Chinese characters don't work
@Silly: Perheps a blog post on GM discuss plans to remove bug(s) in AD&D rulebook that prevent players to create new Chinese characters (don't ask me whether such a bug exist).
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re: How does the taskbar decide whether to show Recent or Frequent documents...
@Paul M. Parks ??? It is not "emotional investment", it is plain utility or convenience. Why should I downgrade my software to something massively less convenient or with reduced...
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re: Well at least nobody's parking there any more
"When one company I worked for celebrated 1 million safe working hours without a disabling injury, I almost couldn't believe it." A software company feeling the need to celebrate that milestone would...
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re: Psychic debugging: Why Chinese characters don't work
@blogless: It appears to be useless.
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re: I'm not calling a virtual function from my constructor or destructor, but...
s/unlucky you area/unlucky you are/
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