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Setting Different Wallpapers For Each Monitor In Windows 8 – Thanks Scott

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by Dirk Strauss - October 6, 2014November 2, 2016 01589

Setting Different Wallpapers - The other day Scott Hanselman posted a blog post on setting individual wallpapers for each monitor in Windows 8 if you're using multiple monitors. While this isn't strictly something many will find essential, it bugs the heck out of me not being able to do it

Resizing VirtualBox Disks Does Not Work With Snapshots

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by Dirk Strauss - August 8, 2014November 14, 2018 716753

Resizing VirtualBox Disks - I wanted to resize the hard drive of my VM, and I figured that this would be an easy task. As it turns out, it is extremely easy. The only problem was that it wasn't working. Here is how I resolved that error. Please note, this is my

Moving VirtualBox VM’s To An External Drive

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by Dirk Strauss - August 6, 2014December 25, 2018 3394969

Moving VirtualBox VM to an external drive

Moving Virtual Box VM's - The other day I created a VM in VirtualBox, and it created the VM in the default directory on my local drive. My local drive is not full, but having a virtual machine hogging an initial 23 Gb of disk space, didn't excite me too

Easily Generate Table Change Scripts In SQL Server Management Studio

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by Dirk Strauss - January 29, 2014December 10, 2018 47644

Something I found frustrating when designing databases, were the frequent changes made to tables. Managing the scripts can become quite tricky, especially if you are still in the design phase. This is made worse by code changes or change requests to existing data structures. Sometimes a person gets so caught

Script Table Data In SQL Server Management Studio

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by Dirk Strauss - January 27, 2014December 10, 2018 2125678

How Do I Script Table Data In SQL Server Script Table Data - I have used other tools to do this for ages. I can't believe that I never knew that it existed in SQL Server Management Studio. Well ok, in my defence it isn't quite the most 'In-your-face' setting. Nevertheless, it

SQL Server Management Studio – Changing Default Data Type In Table Designer

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by Dirk Strauss - January 24, 2014December 10, 2018 23870

If there is one thing that I always had a pet peeve with, was the table designer column data type default in SQL Server Management Studio. You have no option (that I am aware of) to change the default column data type when creating a new data table in table

Outlook Email Stuck In Outbox With Date Of None – Resolved

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by Dirk Strauss - January 15, 2014November 27, 2018 411461

Outlook Email Stuck - I came across a very strange problem. I sent an email and it seemed to get stuck in my Outbox. I am using Microsoft Outlook 2010 and I was having some connectivity problems. It seems that when I sent the email, my line dropped. Somehow this

Scumbag Scammers – My Conversation With The Devil In Disguise

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by Dirk Strauss - November 7, 2013November 2, 2016 82294

Scumbag Scammers - I have always maintained that the easiest way to hack someone, obtain access to their PC or to get someone's password is to simply ask them for it. There is a worrying trend in the world where more and more people's private information is being compromised by

Windows 8 Tips Series – Content Rollup

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by Dirk Strauss - July 30, 2013November 2, 2016 11205

Windows 8 Tips Series has been a regular post on this blog for the past couple of months. I think it is time to close the series and provide a content roll-up of all the posts. With Windows 8.1 around the corner, I will probably cover that from now on. I