Archive for January, 2006
Cropper
My favorite screen capture tool is Cropper.
Version 1.7 fixes a bug I found where if you launched Cropper from SlickRun or AppRocket
it would not work. Brian fixed it really quick, and even fixed another bug I didn’t
report :-).
Cropper is handy cause you can measure/control the screen capture region before taking
the screen shot and it has many flexible output formats (including AVI).
It’s a top notch app.
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What
can I say, I’m an Alt-Tab guy. Tried all those Expose like
utilities for Windows (TopDesk is
the best) but I never end up using them for more
than 7 days.
However, TaskSwitchXP Pro is simply
the best Alt-Tab replacement for Windows (and it’s free).
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Things to do before flattening a PC
It used to be that I could just flatten a PC w/o thinking about what was there before
I flattened it. Since I have both a C and D partition, I keep any data on my D partition
(I move all my doc folders etc using the Tweak XP Powertoy). However, there are a
few things you want to do before booting Windows and paving:
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If you use any downloadable pay for music services, make sure to de-authorize the
computer. This will save you at least 10–20 min later asking tech support for
that service to manually de-authorize for you. I was constantly hitting my 5 machine
limit with MSN Music because of this. -
If you use any applications that create a persistent cache then back up that data.
You will typically find all this stuff in %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application
Data although for some applications this will be located in %USERPROFILE%\Application
Data-
FeedDemon comes to mind here. Since I use the NewsBin as well as flag posts a lot,
I would like my new Windows install to have this data. I have lost numerous flagged
posts because I forgot to backup the FeedDemon cache folder. - Your Adobe Bridge Cache (this can save you a long time later)
- Your Microsoft Digital Media Suite 2006 Cache (ditto here)
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FeedDemon comes to mind here. Since I use the NewsBin as well as flag posts a lot,
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Use the Save My Settings wizard in Office 2003 to easily carry over
all your prefs from Office 2003 to the new machine. This comes in handy all the time. -
Optionally manually
migrate your Outlook Autocomplete history file to the new machine. Nothing sucks
worse then having to look people up in the GAL if you can’t spell their name.
>
update: added link to manually
migrate the outlook autocomplete history.
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