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9Aug/110

Microsoft Outlook Tips – Calendar dropdown

Posted by Joey

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.

8Aug/110

AutoHotKey not working in some programs

Posted by Joey

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

19Jul/110

A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup.

Posted by Joey

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

12Jul/110

AutoHotKey not working in some programs

Posted by Joey

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

14Jun/110

AutoHotKey

Posted by Joey

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