Posts Tagged ‘Tips’

You want to try out Microsoft’s new search engine, but you don’t quite trust it yet so you’re worried it might miss something which means you search on both – right? Well check out http://www.google-vs-bing.com. This allows you to search both at the same time and displays the results side by side in a split [...]


Microsoft ‘Live Mesh’ provides the ability to synchronise your data across all your devices via ‘the cloud’. This means you can access your files no matter which PC you’re using, and also extends to Windows Mobile devices. But what if you want access to these files from a non-Windows mobile such as a Nokia Symbian [...]


It’s possible to view a low bandwidth version of the online MSDN Library which is faster and more lightweight than the full version. Check this post from Eric Nelson.


Sometimes you want to be able to access the contents of an MSI without having to install it. This is possible by running the Windows Installer MSIExec program with a few chosen parameters: msiexec /a FilePathToMSI /qb TARGETDIR=TargetFolder Where FilePathToMSI is the file path to the source MSI file, and TargetFolder is the path to [...]


Windows Live Mesh is a nifty tool for sharing data across various devices. One problem with it though is that by default new Mesh Folders are added to the Desktop of all the devices in your mesh. There is a way to prevent this though. Creating a new Mesh folder and setting it to synchronise [...]


Using your games console as a media player is not just for PlayStation or X-Box owners, its also possibly with the Wii. You can consume all your media (play music, view photos etc) using your television and your Wii. As long as you have your Wii connected to the Internet, all you need is to [...]


If you usually use two monitors in a dual screen setup you may find that when you move back to one (such as when you undock your laptop to go mobile) occasionally some windows disappear. On launching an application it may not appear despite evidence of it running fine (icon in the toolbar for example). [...]


 Run this command to see who has something checked out in TFS:  “C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 9.0Common7IDEtf.exe” status /server:SERVERNAME /user:*  $/TFSPROJECTBRANCH /recursive /login:DOMAINYOURUSERNAME,YOURPASSWORD Change the parent branch by replacing the TFSPROJECTBRANCH with the name of an alternative branch. For VS2005 only machines change Visual Studio 9.0 to Visual Studio 8. For best results pipe the [...]



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