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Creating New Folders with a Keyboard Shortcut
Even light readers of How in the TECH know that I am a keyboard fanatic. Anything you can do in a traditional point and click GUI you can often do faster with a key combination. Everyone is aware of CTRL+C to copy and CTRL+V to paste. As I do a fair bit of work within [...]
Improving Vista File Copying
Vista file copying performance is horrendous, even in the post Service Pack 1 world. There are a number of technical reasons as to why the actual file copy/move process was re-engineered in Vista - compared to XP - but at the end of the day it is all irrelevant because the actual process fails horribly [...]
Moving on Up a Directory in Vista’s Explorer
By now you’ve probably a handful of annoyances introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista brought about by them simply changing functionality for no apparent reason. Change is not always a good thing, even though I do like to live on the bleeding edge. One such major annoyance is a change made in Vista’s iteration of [...]
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