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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Windows XP Alt-Tab Replacement.

You can use Alt-Tab keystroke to cycle through your currently running programs. The problem is that you only see the program's icon and if you are running several instances of a given program you can't tell which one is which unless you install the Alt-Tab Replacement from Microsoft Power Toys for Windows XP website. This Power Toy lets you see the preview of the program window as well as the icon when you cycle through using Alt-Tab.

Thursday, July 29, 2004

Windows XP ClearType Font

<img src=http://images6.fotki.com/v101/photos/6/6766/26672/winxp-vi.gif align=left>If you have a Windows XP based computer with an LCD display or a laptop, you may imporve readability by turning on ClearType setting.
You can do this by just visiting the URL below. You have to use Microsoft Internet Explorer for this to work.

Turn On ClearType URL:<br>
<a href=http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/1.htm>;http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/1.htm<;/a>

Saturday, July 3, 2004

How to increase the number of simultaneous downloads in Internet Explorer

By default Internet Explorer limits two downloads at the same time. However you can change this to any number by modifying the registry. Here is how:
1. From Start menu select <b>Run...</b>, type <b>regedit</b> and hit enter.
2. Navigate to <b>HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Internet Settings</b>
3. From the <b>Edit</b> menu select <b>New -> DWORD Value</b>
4. Set the name of the value to <b>MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server</b>
5. Right-click on the value and select <b>Modify</b>
6. Set the value to <b>10</b> and set <b>Base</b> to <b>Decimal</b>. click on OK.
7. Repeat steps 3-6 but instead of <b>MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server</b> use <b>MaxConnectionsPerServer</b>

Friday, March 12, 2004

Dynamically Loading External JavaScript Files

This is an article that helped me with the task:
http://www.codehouse.com/javascript/articles/external/
Loading external JavaScript files dynamically was required to be able to use QuickBase as the database for my new website dancenyc.info.

Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Setting File Completion Character In Windows XP to Tab

To be able to use the TAB key for file completion in Command Window do the following:

1) run regedit
2) open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Command Processor
3) double click on CompletionChar
4) set Value data to 9 and Base to hexidecimal
5) click OK
6) do steps 3-5 for PathCompletionChar, i.e. set it to 9
7) close regedit

Monday, March 8, 2004

Stinger Antivirus

Use this to detect the latest viruses: http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

Thursday, November 4, 1993

Foxtris - Tetris Clone For Foxpro

Back in 1993 I wrote a Tetris clone for FoxPro 2.5 for MS-DOS and called it Foxtris. This is really vintage software at this point, but if you still have FoxPro 2.5, you can download Foxtris.