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Since I’ve been trying to finish my latest project using WPF, Silverlight 2.0 excites me because I will be able to take a lot of stuff that I’ve done and learned and use it in Silverlight 2.0! Scott Guthrie just posted a sneak peak into the latest offerings that will be coming in Beta 1 along with [...]
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For those of us that find ourselves disabling Vista UAC for the whole system (points finger at self), we now have the ability to disable UAC per application. Thanks to Microsoft KB946932, here’s the solution: Using the tool and steps below, you may disable UAC prompt for the specific application. This does not disable the [...]
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I’m currently using Vista x64 with a nVidia-based videocard with dual monitors and have run into the following issue: I work on my machine, then I lock it. Later I come back and type my password to unlock it and I get to stare at black monitors with only the cursor showing. Previously I would have [...]
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Not, Daylight Savings Time (look under Spelling and Grammar). For those of you that lost an hour last night, I apologize. The rest of us will lose it next week. Here’s a little newspaper clipping that should help you not feel so bad.
One of the changes from Windows XP to Windows Vista is the difference when selecting/deselecting items in Windows Explorer when using the Detail View. In XP, you can deselect all items by left-clicking any column that is not the name column. I love that it is this way. In Vista, good luck trying to deselect [...]
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