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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 33-year-old dad, percussionist, sysadmin, Web developer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the service manager at Weston Technologies. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
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Neat Windows TrickWhen somebody's calling me with a computer problem, or they see an error on their screen, they'll usually tell me something generic like "I got this error on my screen." Oh, that's useful. "What was the error?" "Oh, I don't know, it just went bonkers." I go on to tell them I need the exact error message before I can diagnose something, I don't care how cryptic it is. Then they try to read it to me, and something gets lost in translation. Well apparently you can hit ctrl-c on any Windows dialog box, and have it copy its contents to the clipboard where you can then paste it into Notepad, or whatever. Then they can copy the dialog into notepad, print it, or e-mail it my direction, making it far easier for me to fix something. Thanks to Neil (who has a much better graphical demonstration) for pointing this out. 3 Commentsaaron said on 11/29/04 @ 07:04 AM:that's pretty handy, here's another one for you. when you are copying files to a directory where files of the same name exist, there's a "yes to all" button asking if you want to overwrite, but not a "No to all button." If you hold SHIFT when you click NO, that makes it "no to all," so it will only copy files with names that don't already exist in that directory. I just heard that a couple of months ago. Jake said on 11/29/04 @ 08:36 AM: That is a good one, too. Thanks! Annie said on 12/07/04 @ 11:21 AM: I've reached the end of an excel worksheet. How do I create the new sheet without losing the previous 4 or 5 columns of linked info? Post a comment |
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