Keyboard Shortcut to Task Manager
You probably know you can launch the Task Manager by right-clicking on the Task Bar and then click on the Task Manager on the context menu. But do you know it can also be done by pressing...
View ArticleQuick Zooming in PowerPoint
Do you know that you can quickly zoom in PowerPoint by using the scroll wheel while holding down Ctrl? P.S. In fact, this behavior seems quite consistent among many Windows applications, including...
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Windows Command Line – Shortcut Key
Even though I am a Windows user, I spend a lot of time in the command prompt. While many Unix users actually tweak their .login and related files, I’ve seen a lot of Windows users living with the...
View ArticleSysinternals Junction
On average, I get asked the following question about once a month: Are there symbolic links in Windows, similar to the ln -s target_name link_name on Unix? Let me answer it here once(*) and for all....
View ArticleDIRCMD
Many small annoyances of Windows are due to unreasonable default settings. For example, the dir command in the command prompt (cmd.exe) does not sort its output by default. Can you believe that this is...
View ArticleSysinternals PsTools
PsTools from Sysinternals is a collection of command line utilities that let you manipulate processes in Windows. Among the tools, I personally use pslist and pskill every single day(*). Check it out!...
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CLCL – The Clipboard Manager
Those of us that use Microsoft Office should be familiar with the concept of a clipboard manager (since it has one built-in for the Office applications). Basically, a clipboard manager lets you...
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pdfopen and pdfclose
Update on 2008-01-24: The “back” feature is no longer needed, at least on Windows Acrobat Reader 8. See: Edit->Preferences->Documents->Restore last view settings when reopening documents...
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Command Line Mute
Your laptop just makes the familiar “oh-oh” sound. You know you have an instant message in ICQ. The problem is, it’s 5:30 in the morning right now… Indeed you forgot to turn off your speaker the night...
View ArticleList of Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows XP
A couple days ago a pretty savvy Windows user in our Theory group asked me if there is any keyboard shortcut to rename a file in Explorer. I don’t know how I learned about it, but F2 is the answer. It...
View ArticleExplorer Here
Command Prompt Here seems to be a well-known feature among the Windows users. It lets you right-click on a folder and open a command prompt with the current working directory set to that folder. But...
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PrimoPDF
In the past, I used to manually set up the tool chain for PDF production on Windows. Basically, this requires the installation of Ghostscript and a PS printer driver that prints to a RedMon port. The...
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Two Patches for X41 Tablet
Recently I have finally switched to a ThinkPad X41 Tablet for my everyday computing need. I said “finally” because I actually had the machine since more than a year ago (Sept 2005), but it had more...
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Switching From Yap to Dviout
(Most recently updated on 2008-02-08, but I have kept the referenced MiKTeX version at 2.5. As far as I know, none of the changes in MiKTeX 2.6 and 2.7 matters to the topic of this post.) I have...
View ArticleSumatraPDF 0.8 Released
SumatraPDF has just become a very strong contender as an everyday PDF viewer on Windows. The reason: it finally supports searching and bookmarks in version 0.8. Its interface is still a bit over...
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