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Monday, March 31, 2008 11:10 PM

Move CCTray Window from Second Monitor when Disconnected

On one of my machines, I have CCTray installed and while the box used to have 2 monitors attached to it, at the moment it has just one. And of course, CCTray's output was going to the (now not there) second monitor. No problem - as a veteran multi-monitor
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Monday, February 04, 2008 5:02 PM

Windows Release Schedule 2008

For those of you eagerly awaiting Window Server 2008 (formerly Longhorn), especially you ASP.NET types salivating over IIS7 , the wait is nearly over. Today Microsoft has announced that it as released Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 to manufacturing.
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Monday, September 10, 2007 12:58 PM

Consolas Font in Vista

I've recently been experimenting with other fonts for Visual Studio on Vista after reading this article on new fonts in Vista . I think I like Consolas better than Courier New for coding, if only for its novelty. It also tends to be a little bit more
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:53 PM

Slashdot Acknowledges Vista More Secure Than Linux

Wow, even Slashdot, anti-Microsoft capital of the Web, acknowledges that six months after its release, Vista Security is still besting Linux . From the site: "Great report on security vulnerabilities for MS/Linux/OS X . This is a revised version of the
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:24 PM

Free Remote Desktop Manager Tool

If you remote into many machines, this should appeal to you. Terminals is a free, open source project on CodePlex that allows much better management of remote desktop connections than the default XP/Vista experience. Check it out today, it’s a quick
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Monday, February 05, 2007 3:30 PM

Reporting Services Plus Vista Equals Pain

I spent quite a few hours yesterday trying to get Reporting Services to work on my Vista laptop. It didn’t end up working. For quite a long time I got a login prompt when trying to go to localhost/reports, which would bomb after 3 tries and had
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Friday, February 02, 2007 2:26 PM

Offering Remote Assistance on Vista

Julie showed me how to do this on XP/2003 , which helped me figure it out on Vista. Following her lead, I created some screenshots… First go to your Start/Windows icon and click on Help and Support. Click on Windows Remote Assistance under Ask
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Friday, January 05, 2007 1:00 PM

VS2005 SP1 Update for Vista Beta Available

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta Now available, this update fixes a bunch of issues with VS2005 (with SP1) running on Windows Vista. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponso
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Friday, January 05, 2007 12:57 PM

Free Office Professional 2007 and Office Groove 2007

Here’s an exciting announcement related to the upcoming launch events for Windows Vista and Office 2007: Receive your FREE copy of Microsoft Office Professional 2007 and Microsoft Office Groove 2007* when you attend a Windows Vista, 2007 Microsoft
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Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:15 PM

Vista on MSDN

Windows Vista Ultimate is now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads . Nuff said. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 9:01 PM

Vista, DotNet3 Available

Just announced: Today Microsoft achieved another significant Vista milestone: the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Business and Enterprise Editions are now available to business and enterprise customers in English. This is exactly one week
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:06 AM

Your Computer On Your Thumb Drive

Something I’ve wanted for a while now is the ability to keep my computer, or at least my email and some other critical files, on a USB drive — the ultimate in “ultra-portable” — which I could then use from any computer. I’ve
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Thursday, September 07, 2006 12:50 PM

Windows Principles Editorial

An editorial piece of mine was published in a local paper Tuesday: Microsoft opens a window to entrepreneurs Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor
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Friday, July 28, 2006 2:03 PM

Microsoft Twelve Tenets to Promote Competition

Microsoft recently announced the publication of its Twelve Tenets to Promote Competition , also referred to as “Windows Principles” . These include: Principle I: Choice for Computer Manufacturers and Customers 1. Installation of any software
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Sunday, June 11, 2006 8:25 PM

TechEd Keynote

Choloe O’Brien from 24 has been the highlight of the keynote so far. There’ve been several 4–minute videos following the 24 format (dubbed “4”) which were pretty humorous. The main gist of the keynote so far as been security
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