Something I accidentally discovered is that in Windows 8.1 (and probably 8 as well – and Windows 7) you can use the Windows key + a number to open an application from your task bar! So lets say you’ve got Google Chrome at position 1, Thunderbird at 2 and Visual Studio 2012 at position 3. …
Looks like there’s finally a decent replacement for the Windows command line tool! It’s called cmder and comes with Git (optionally) and a bunch of other great command line utilities such as curl, cat, ls, less and even ssh! I did run into a couple of issues with the console not responding and also couldn’t …
I was happily running Windows 8 on my 17″ laptop with full HD screen and had no complaints when it came to the size of icons and texts. After I upgraded to Windows 8.1 I noticed that the icons on my desktop and taskbar were a lot smaller than before. After opening my text editor of …
Recently I installed the wrong version of ShrewSoft VPN which changed the way my Windows 7 computer would let me login. Changing it to having to select a user at start up before logging in is not the way I prefer it. Windows 8 seems to do this by default, especially when you’ve got your Outlook …
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