From the access-ramps dept: Toggle Keys is a killer Windows Accessibility feature that works very well for touch typists who keep hitting cAPS lOCK bY mISTAKE (as when touch-typing on a different keyboard). To switch it on, use Control Panel | Accessibility Options, Alt+T, Alt+A, Enter.
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Andrew Duthie has a great tip for privileged file management while running as an ordinary user in Windows. This is important because explorer.exe cannot be launched as another (higher- or lower- privileged) user using its Run As feature. The tip? Use iexplore.exe, which doubles up as a file manager when fed a local path.
On the other hand, what this says about IE’s potential to wreak havoc on a system is best left unsaid. If I were an auditor going over IE code, I would not be a happy man :-).
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Intel video driver installers (for example, the 82845G) add a few annoyances to the user’s machine: a system tray icon (igfxtray.exe), a hotkey processor (hkcmd.exe) and entries to the Windows desktop context menu. Apart from needlessly duplicating the Display Settings applet’s functionality, this eats resources and increases the time it takes to display the desktop context menu. Here’s how to remove these annoyances:
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For all those people wondering where they can get good Indic fonts from: Windows XP and Office XP ship with great Indic fonts for some scripts, and for the rest there’s always James Kass’ Code2000 (direct link).
As an aside, now’s a great time for folk to ditch their proprietary fonts and user-defined encoding (examples 1 2 3) and get onto the Unicode Encoding bandwagon like Google (which uses UTF-8).
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From the nifty Windows tricks dept: Quicky typing the first few letters of a filename in Windows Explorer moves the highlighter to that file. Like autocomplete, except without hitting Tab. (This beats typing the first letter again and again, like one had to do in Windows 3.1) This works in Windows 2000, not sure about earlier versions. Wish it worked with the Start menu, too, though.
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Visicheck scans images and some websites (no CSS support yet) for three types of color vision problems. Tried that now, and found that ChaosZone’s largely blue-based layout looks okay to all three groups. Good. (via Mark)
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If you see ‘undeletable’ files on Windows NT-family OSes, even as an administrator, it may be a sign of worm, virus or rootkit infestation. (You can easily verify if the files have been locked by another process using Process Explorer or FileMon).
The easiest way to remove these undeletable files is
rd \?\D:\full\path\to\folderordel \?\D:\full\path\to\folder\file.ext
You may get a ‘file in use by another process’ error — relogin and you should see the files removed. MSKB 120716 says that should be
\.\D:\some\folderbut I had problems with that. Good links on this at incidents.org and anetforums.
(Post Updated 2004-11-24.)
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I wrote a XSL transform that will convert RSS (tested 0.91 and 0.92) to viewable HTML. This works only with IE as of now, unless you use the W3C’s XSL Transform Service. Look at my RSS feed now (here’s a non-IE link). Or check out some other RSS feeds.
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Moving or Renaming the Documents and Settings Folder in Windows 2000 is a pain — if you don’t do it at install time.
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Install Windows Desktop Update on NT systems — without jumping through IEAK hoops or uninstalling/reinstalling IE4SP2. The trick is a little known command line utlity that the IE5/IE6 installer accepts: IE6Setup.exe /C:”ie6wzd /e:IE4Shell_NTx86 /I:Y” (replace IE6 with IE5 if installing IE5). This also works on a PC with IE6 already installed.
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