Have you ever wished when you are running a long complicated powershell script that you could make it more annoying. Well you can. There is a part of .NET that I have rarely ever had reason to use, as if you are creating an interface and need it to be disability friendly then Windows does […]
My development workstation is getting a little old, it still has a 3.6Ghz i7 and 32Gb of RAM along with a fancy graphics card that drives 3 monitors but occasionally it feels like its being asked to do too much. Comparing things like the boot speed or heaven forbid the Windows upgrade speed to my […]
A lot more people suffer from a form of colour blindness than you would think, here in the United Kingdom almost 4.5% of the population suffer with some form of colour impairment. The causes can be varied as can how the actual sight impairment manifests itself. Although there does seem to be a marked difference […]
I fondly remember Visual Basic, not the new shiny .NET version, but the old VB6 that was an excellent way to build applications, but was always a bit of a pain to install them afterwards as sometimes I would find myself disappearing down the ActiveX regsvr32 version rabbit hole. But fortunately VB6 sort of lives […]
When writing documentation, or manuals or even training material sometimes you need a Windows logo. In the old days there used to be one in the WingDings font at character code 0xFF. The only problem now is that logo is a little out of date being more Windows 3.1 than Windows 10. Fortunately deployed with […]
Sometimes there are times when IP addresses change and your machine gets a little confused by holding onto the old site, or even when you know the site is out there but you still keep getting a 404 Page not found error. First thing you need to do is open a Command Prompt with Administrator […]
There are times when you need administrator rights to run an application, often something as useful as a command prompt needs administrator rights to perform system tasks. A quick way to do this if you have Cortana on your taskbar is to quickly type CMD into Cortana and you will be presented with a dialog […]
Occasionally you might need to run a program but need additional rights, for example if you are logged in as a normal non administrator user, and you have to do something that requires administrator rights. Instead of logging out and logging back in again, or logging in again as a new user to the machine […]
Consider this you are writing a training manual, some software documentation or even a blog post and the program you are working with requires the user to approve the Windows UAC dialog. You need to take a screenshot but each time you try nothing happens. Here is the solution When the dialog triggers, select the […]
You might have noticed the run dialog seems to have gone only to be replaced with Cortana, and while Cortana usually does a good job sometimes it returns too much information when you just want to quickly start another application. Fortunately its not really gone just accessed with the keystroke Windows Key + R But […]