helping you abuse your system one day at a time
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 shutdown [...]
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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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When responding to a forum post, isn’t it nice to be able to have the original message scrollable separate from where you are typing your response? Do you wish there was a way to do this when replying to a horrendously long email in Outlook?
The other day, I accidentally found out how to do this. [...]
I originally started this post with a title of “WPF ToolTip Child Element Visibility Based on the Parent of the ToolTip IsEnabled Property… and you are not it with a dirty dirty dish rag on your toe reading behind a dirty magazine”, but I decided that in the best interest of my sanity (read: “what [...]
