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The art of recovering (forever) lost windows, on Windows®

More usual than it should, windows (not the OS) disappear of the desktop, only remaining, the item on the taskbar.

On way, of recovering them, is using the context menu of the taskbar item, and choosing ‘Maximize’. But what if, you need to resize that window to a custom size ?

1) Activate the window. This may take some guesswork if the window doesn’t show up on your taskbar. Either click it on your task bar, or ALT-TAB until you think you’ve activated the one you want.

2) Press ALT+SPACE followed by m (for “Move”). This will move the mouse to the center of the title bar of the window. You could use the keyboard to move the window if you wanted to, but we’ll use the mouse instead. If you can see the window on your taskbar, you can right-click and select “Move” instead if you prefer.

3) Carefully, without moving the mouse, click down to grab the window and drag it back to your desktop. As long as the window isn’t ridiculously far away (i.e., the application is buggy and has placed your window millions of pixels away from where your desktop is, you’ll be all set. For me, I usually know right where my lost windows are (over to the left where my second monitor would normally display them), so I just drag over to the right and I’m set.

If (3) isn’t working for you, the window may be maximized. Press ALT+SPACE followed by r (for “Restore”). This will restore the window if it’s maximized somewhere (another monitor perhaps). Then go to (2) and try again.

Via google: Keith Brown Blog

Toshiba Bluetooth stack + windows mobile + windows vista = no activesync !?

I’ve searched, and searched, for a solution to this, and as usual, is (almost) plain simple. So if you have a Toshiba Bluetooth stack on your windows vista pc, and cannot sync via Bluetooth, here’s the answer:

1. Install the latest Toshiba Bluetooth stack drivers (you can get it from here) and the reboot.
2. Check (on your PC) from Start -> Control Panel -> Bluetooth Local COM which Com port the “LocalCOM-Server[SerialPort]” is assigned to (in my case COM7)
3. Now open the Registry Editor in Vista and go to: HKEYLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services\ and change the SerialPort from “Bluetooth” to the assigned COM port you found before (like COM7)
4. That’s it. Now reboot your PC and create a new Bluetooth partnership (I’m always initiating it from Windows Mobile). The Serial profile, which was displayed before as available profile type should appear now as ActiveSync.

Simple isn’t it ?

Solution to this was found here

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Just Recycle-it – Quick IIS Pool Recycle !

I really don’t remember what-was-the-link where this came from, but here it is, the windows tray Application Pool recycler.

Avoids the always slow IISReset, and it’s super handy (the perfect tool for the avid Sharepoint developer) …

A must have !!!

SQL Server 2005 and the IDENTITY property

After trying to add the IDENTITY property to an existing column (primary key), programmatically (T-SQL) with no success, I turned to google, just to find that… It’s not possible

Check it here (MSDN), and quoting:

«

Identity columns are commonly used in conjunction with PRIMARY KEY constraints to serve as the unique row identifier for the table. The IDENTITY property can be assigned to a tinyint, smallint, int, bigint, decimal(p,0), or numeric(p,0) column. Only one identity column can be created per table. The DEFAULT keyword and bound defaults cannot be used with an identity column. Either both the seed and increment must be specified, or neither. If neither are specified, the default is (1,1). You cannot modify an existing table column to add the IDENTITY property.

»

So, if you need to do this, it’s better to drop the column, and re-add it with the IDENTITY property (easy when there’s no data on the table…).

An even easier way to do this is to enable a nifty feature of Management Studio, that generates scripts of the changes you do in design mode. So if you add the identity property to the column, he does all the job for you, and even generates the script for it (and maintains all the original table data).

To enable this feature, go to: Tools > Options > Designers > Auto Generate change scripts
(option on the right side)

Happy queries

Windows Media Player 11 automatically rips inserted audio cd

Even though I’ve set automatic Rip option to ‘Never’, media player insisted in auto-ripping every new audio cd I inserted in the drive.

When I finally was sick of it, I’ve searched the web for the answer… and the answer was, (in Vista) Control Panel > AutoPlay > and change the option for Audio Cd to something not “Rip music from CD using Windows Media Player”…

Problem solved… for know…

Via:
eggheadcafe.com

Use you PocketPC as a WebCam…

… with this ! AtekSoft CoolCamera…