Notepad's geek options require Word Wrap be disabled
If you want to use the “Go To” or “Status Bar” options, you have to turn off word warp first. (Word wrap messes with line breaks.) The post Notepad's geek options require Word Wrap be disabled appeared...
View ArticleHow can I tell if I have the 64-bit edition of Windows?
Answer: Your wallet is empty. Seriously, there is no way you bought an Itanium by mistake. They are expensive machines: The entry-level workstation available from HP (who co-developed the Itanium with...
View ArticleWhat's the deal with the System Volume Information folder?
In the root of every drive is a folder called “System Volume Information”. If your drive is NTFS, the permissions on the folder are set so not even administrators can get in there. What’s the big...
View ArticleWhy isn't Fast User Switching enabled on domains?
Windows XP added a new feature called Fast User Switching which lets you switch between users without having to log off. But this feature is disabled if your computer is joined to a domain. Why? There...
View ArticleA shortcut to the Run dialog
Here’s a little script that opens the Run dialog. You can save it as “Run.js” and double-click it. (new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application")).FileRun(); The advantage of this approach over various...
View ArticleYou can drag/drop to the command prompt
The command prompt is a drop target: Dropping a file onto it inserts the filename. The post You can drag/drop to the command prompt appeared first on The Old New Thing.
View ArticleWhat do the letters W and L stand for in WPARAM and LPARAM?
Once upon a time, Windows was 16-bit. Each message could carry with it two pieces of data, called WPARAM and LPARAM. The first one was a 16-bit value (“word”), so it was called W. The second one was a...
View ArticleOther tricks with WM_GETDLGCODE
The WM_GETDLCODE message lets you influence the behavior of the dialog manager. A previous entry on using WM_GETDLGCODE described the DLGC_HASSETSEL flag which controls whether edit control content is...
View ArticleIt's like the Swedes don't want you to learn their language
(It’s a holiday in the States today and tomorrow, so I’m not going to talk about geek stuff. That’ll resume on Monday.) If you pay a visit to Deutsche Welle, the German international broadcasting...
View ArticleHello Sweden, you're on fire
(Geek talk resumes on Monday.) The longstanding tradition of Norwegians telling Swedish jokes and vice versa, was recently refueled by a border story. A Norwegian man called Sweden on his mobile phone...
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