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How To Find Out What Version Of Windows Mobile .NET Framework Is Running On An i-mate SP3

Shandy — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:25:00 GMT

Nice and easy this one. Select Start, Settings, About and all the information you require is displayed :)

How To Open A Command Prompt From Windows Explorer With Current Folder As Default

Shandy — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:21:00 GMT

Ever wanted to be able to open a command prompt from windows explorer where the current command prompt folder is the current windows explorer folder? Well here's how to do it: (Tested under XP Pro)

Open the windows registry editor (Start, Run, RegEdit)
Select the node HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell.
Create a new key, DOS Prompt. (Right click, New, Key, type Command Prompt).
Select the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Command Prompt.
Create a new key, Command. (Right click, New, Key, type Command)
Edit the string Default. (Right click, Modify, type c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe %1)

If you now go to the windows explorer and browse to a folder and right click you will see an option Command Prompt. Selecting that option will open up a command prompt window with the default folder as the one selected in windows explorer.

Note that editing the registry can seriously damage your health! Always back up your registry before editing.

The Acronym HTML Tag

Shandy — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:37:00 GMT

It is only in the last week that I have discovered this rather useful little HTML tag, <acronym>. An example of its use is in the HTML word. Assuming you have a proper browser that supports this tag, hover the cursor over the HTML word. You should see the words HyperText Markup Language appear. I do this by specifying the letters HTML as:

<Acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</Acronym>.

I think its a brilliant idea as I've lost count of the number of times I am reading text on a web site and I look at a TLA and have no idea what it stands for. Let's hope this is a feature more web sites will start to use !

Microsoft Outlook Web Access Client : Why I Couldn't Reply To/Forward Emails

Shandy — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:19:00 GMT

We use Microsoft Exchange Server as our corporate email server and when I am at home I generally use the Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) Client to keep up to date with my emails. A while back I found I that I had lost the ability to reply to emails via OWA. It was one of those annoying problems that I never quite got around to solving - until today that is.

The symtoms were simply that when I tried to Reply, Reply To All or Forward an email the email window simply closed down. The solution was to change the following setting in the Control Panel, Internet Options, Security, Custom Level, Use Popup Blocker from Enable to Disable. I can only assume that somewhere along the line a critical update or maybe XP SP2 enabled this setting. Anyway, my life has now been made considerably easier again with this simple change :)

Tip On Solving The Problem Where Internet Explorer 6 Printing Truncates Right Hand Side Text

Shandy — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:02:00 GMT

Problem

Ever tried to print off a web page in Internet Explorer (IE) v6 and found that text on the right hand side of the web page is truncated on the printed version and makes the printout unreadable? Well I have and this has been an issue that has been annoying me for far too long.

Investigation

What appears to be happening is that any text that would be printed in the margin is not getting wrapped the next line but simply not getting printed.

Solution

This may differ for different printer drivers but from Internet Explorer I selected File, Print Preview, Page Setup (Ult+U), Margins (millimetres), Right: and reduced it to 0. When you click on the OK button the right margin will actually be increased to the minimum acceptable value (in my case 1.33). Anyway, suffice to say it at least allows me to print off information from web pages like Technet and read the printed articles without having to guess the missing words!