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The Daily Six Pack: July 24, 2015

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:July 24, 2015
Post category:The Daily Six Pack
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: NuGet 3 Released NuGet 3.0 Released, Jeffrey T. Fritz Other Developers: Learn about Visual Studio Code’s capabilities July 29 in online class, Suzanne Choney Performance and Diagnostic Tools in Visual Studio 2015, Dan Taylor Visual Studio 2015…

Windows 8 Tips Part 17 – Enable Merge Folder Dialogue

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:May 9, 2013
Post category:How To
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Back in Windows 7, when you copied a folder into another folder that already contained a sub-folder with the same name, you would receive a warning dialogue warning you that the folders with the same name will be merged. This at least gave you a heads-up before continuing.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depends on how you look at this) Windows 8 does not display this warning dialogue any more. Windows 8 continues merrily on it’s own tangent and merges the two folders into one single folder.

Well I am not sure about you, but for me (being a bit of a control freak) I like to know what actions Windows 8 will perform on my files and folders. I also want a say in those actions. (more…)

Windows 8 Tips Part 10 – Launch File Explorer with Drive List

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:December 12, 2012
Post category:How To
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The default behavior when clicking on the File Explorer shortcut in the Windows task bar is to open with the libraries view shown as default. If you are like me (in other words, fussy), I prefer to see My Computer when clicking on the shortcut. Luckily you can easily modify this behavior by following the quick steps as outlined below. As a side note to this article, be sure to see the comment left by Shawn Keene below in the update. Visit Shawn’s blog for more excellent content.

Your shortcut is located on your Windows task-bar as indicated by the screenshot below.

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