Microsoft Outlook Tips – Calendar dropdown
This seems really silly, but I thought I’d post it. I tend to manage my day at work via Outlook. Today I just realised a hidden, or well… I haven’t seen it since forever… little feature within Outlook appointments.
When booking a new appointment, you can use the date picker to select the date you want.
AutoHotKey not working in some programs
I had an issue with AutoHotKey not working when I was using Visual Studio 2010. Simple solution, just run AutoHotKey.exe as Administrator, that should fix the issue… Continue reading
A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup.
Okay, so when installing products it works perfectly! But, if you want to uninstall you get all sorts of errors. Anyway, I’ve been re-installing SQL Server and needed to uninstall VS2008 Team Edition. Got the following error:
A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup.
I’m not sure exactly why, may be due to components that have been upgraded or missing. Anyway found this… Continue reading
AutoHotKey not working in some programs
Found this issue when trying to use hot keys within Visual Studio 2010. At first I thought VS2010 already had a that key binded, but soon realised that I’m running Windows 7… so everything is bloody permission based! (Pain in the ass).
Just quit the program, and re-launch but Run As Administrator. That should fix it
If you’re similar to me, and using a trackball… and using… Continue reading
AutoHotKey
Found a great tool, AutoHotKey http://www.autohotkey.com/
It’s a free keyboard & mouse macro program – great for any repeative tasks you need to do.
One thing I use it for all the time is commenting!… Continue reading

