If you have a dual boot machine like me (I installed Vista and Windows 2008 on one of my desktops in office) and you’re tired of synchronizing your Favorite folders like I was, here’s a quick trick: open the registry editor (as usual be careful!) and set HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Favorites and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Favorites to the same folder location (for example “c:\favorites”). The former is the one read by Internet Explorer, while the latter is used to show your Favorites under the Start menu. Happy bookmarking ? Carlo Quote of the Day: Women like silent men. They think they’re listening. – Marcel Archard
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Posters, posters and again posters…
First link-only post on this blog, it was supposed to happen sooner or later, I guess… ? Here is a list of technology posters you can download, my favorites are the keyboard shortcut ones! By the way, thanks to Paulo for collecting the links! ? Developer Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008 Default Keybindings Visual C# 2008 Default Keybindings Visual C++ 2008 Default Keybindings Microsoft® Visual C#® 2005 Default Keybindings Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2005 Default Keybindings Microsoft® Visual C++® 2005 Default Keybindings Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Commonly Used Types and Namespaces Windows Presentation Foundation .NET Compact Framework Versions (on OpenNETCF) Microsoft® Silverlight™ 1.1 Developer Reference Poster Smart Client Poster Developer Map for the 2007 Microsoft® Office system Microsoft® Office InfoPath® 2007 Managed Object Model Developer Map for SharePoint® Products and Technologies Platform Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Feature Components Windows Server 2008 Feature Components Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Component Jigsaw BizApps Exchange Server 2007 Component Architecture Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport Server Role Architecture Exchange Server 2007 Hub Transport Server Role Architecture (RTM) Exchange Server 2007 Hub Transport Server Role Architecture (SP1) BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Capabilities BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Runtime Architecture BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Scale-Out Configurations Upgrade…
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SyncToy not working on Vista x64?
I’ve been using SyncToy for quite a few months to keep in sync some folders between my laptop and the other two machines I have in office, and it always worked just great for me (I know, I should be using Groove instead but I’m not happy to have services and programs running when they want, instead of when I tell them to run… ?). When I switched my primary desktop in office to Vista x64, I very quickly discovered that SyncToy was crashing immediately after running it, with no error messages or clues about what is going wrong… I didn’t had much time to spend debugging it and try to figure out what was going wrong (it’s not a must have tool for my work, after all…) so I simply used the laptop to synchronize folders between the two desktops, too… Until this morning, when I had a few minutes free and decided to get back to this problem and try to fix it once for all (and write a blog post on it, too ?); anyway before even opening WinDbg, a research on the Internet brought me to this blog: http://joshmouch.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/synctoy-14-and-vista-x64-error-fixed/. I tried, and it works like a…
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Process on Vista: Administrator or user?
This is an easy (and maybe already known) one for this hot summer day: how can you know if a process on Vista is running as ad Administrator or as a user? Process Explorer will tell you: Carlo
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Google uses .NET…?!?
Have a look at this link: https://survey.google.com/wix/p0986235.aspx Uhm… let’s have a look at the source HTML of the page, and we’ll not find the “_VIEWSTATE” hidden field (it should be there also if we disable the viewstate in the @Page directly and for every control in the page) and the “__DoPostBack” Javascript method to submit the form… ? I may be completely wrong, they could have removed the unused _viewstate hidden field on the server right before sending the html stream to the client, but why? Just to save 2-3 Kb? Don’t know… sounds like a “trick”… maybe they just wanted to check the reaction about the file extension… ? Just to be clear: I don’t find anything wrong with it, just fun ? What do you think? Carlo
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Blog addict?
Uhm… should I try to improve or somehow “worsen” this figure? ?? Carlo
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Spell checker missing in Windows Live Writer beta 2
A few days ago I installed the newly released beta 2 of Windows Live Writer, and immediately noted (with a bit of disappointment) that the spell checker was missing… 🤔 After various tests (reinstalling on other machines I have, checking that all assembly versions were the right ones etc…) I decided to open a call through http://support.live.com (yes, this time I’ve been the customer and not the Support Engineer 😊). They’ve been very quick, and after a few emails I’ve been pointed to this post: the trick is use this custom launcher instead of running WindowsLiveWriter.exe directly, and I got my spell checker back and working like a charm 🤓. Following up this with the WLW support and we found that, even if I’m running only English operating systems (WinXP, Win2003 and Vista x64), all with Italian keyboard layout, and at least on the XP machine I also have the Italian .NET Framework package, the difference is made by my Regional and Language options which, as you may guess, I set to Italian; as a test I switched it to English US and the spell checker showed up in the Tools menu even without the custom launcher. It worth mentioning that…
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How Fast Can You Type?
Here is some OT fun to start the day 😊 Fingerjig is a fun little typing game that tests your accuracy and speed for randomly selected words (each level tests a different typing skill). From How Fast Can You Type? Direct link to the test: http://www.jonmiles.co.uk/fingerjig.php Carlo
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Murphy’s law (i.e. never play with your demos right before a presentation!)
Or at least if you do, just make sure to have a backup copy of the working demo in a safe place for a quick last minute restore! 😉 (if you are just curious, you can learn more in Wikipedia and on the Murphy’s law site 😊) Carlo
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Caution: I’m an INTJ!
As Mike, I’m also interested in the psychological and unconscious side if human beings… and after reading this post I took the personality test based on the Myers-Briggs personality tests. Well, it turns out that I’m an INTJ (and here) 😊. Preferred careers are in computer programming, engineering or natural science… very close! And also I recognize myself in the personality descriptions they gave… nice 🤓 Anyone willing to take the test and share the result? Cheers