I’m a big fan of the Office 2007 style tooltips and one of the areas where I feel .NET lets me down a little is in the ToolTip department. Here’s the default .NET ToolTip: Now take a look at the following ToolTips: Not only do they look much better, but they also provide some very […]
Replacing Notepad.exe in Windows Vista
I know this has been covered on other sites but I thought I would post it here for the benefit of our readers. Why would you want to do this? Well, because Notepad that comes with Windows is, well, if you’ve used it then you know what it’s like and have probably moved on to something […]
Command Prompt – Easily Paste Paths and Filenames
Here’s a quick tip I found out about the other day from a fellow co-worker: You can drag and drop a single file or folder onto the command prompt and it will paste the path automatically. This saves time compared to the old-fashioned way of selecting the address bar, copying, then right-clicking on the command […]
Enabling /NOGUIBOOT in VistaPE (WinPE 2.0)
Now first thing’s first…why would you want to do this? Well if any of you have booted to VistaPE or Vista you will have noticed the tastefully bland boot screen that is mostly empty except for a wonderful leprechaun green status bar that doesn’t even really show a status at all (as if a bar […]
Happy “Talk like a pirate” day!
I know this post isn’t relevant, but since today is “Talk like a pirate day” I thought I’d post one of my favorite pirate jokes for everyone to enjoy. So here goes… Where does a pirate go for lunch? Arrrrrrrrrby’s! Ok, ok… here’s another. Why couldn’t the 11 year old get into the movie? It […]