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After installing Win7 32 bit and Win7 64 bit on 2 different partitions of the same computer, both show up as Windows 7 on the boot menu. So if I have 1 desktop and 1 notebook, I will have to remember which computer's top Windows 7 is the 32 bit and which...
Started by Jian Lin on
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Abcdefg-4567-8912-1234-YourGUIDHERE} description "Windows 7 x64"
repeat for the 32 bit install.
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I'm creating a custom control in wxWidgets that displays a menu as part of it, and currently working on the Windows side of things. wxWidgets doesn't have a way of setting the width of a menu. It just makes the window as wide as the longest string plus...
Started by Grant Limberg on
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When you do this, the window that the menuWith the handle of ....
First of all, try, indicating that you want to owner-draw the menu items.
To subclass the windows message handler for the window that contains the menu.
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Is there any way to diff two selected files from the context menu in Windows Explorer?
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It acts as external most recent used....
Sounds like you need diff-ext !
This shell extension (diff-ext) makes it possible to launch file comparison tool for 2 or 3 files (depending on the tool) in the same directory or "save" a file(s) for later comparison .
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Is there a way to bring up a Windows console (for the current directory) from the Windows Explorer context menu? I really like this feature in Nautilus (on Linux) and I'm wondering if there is a parallel feature in Windows.
Edit: I'm specifically interested...
Started by Joseph Sturtevant on
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EDIT
I'm not a Windows 7 user (yet) but apparently if you press the 'Shift' key and right-click....
You can use power toys 'Open Command Window Here' for Windows XP to open a command window pointing directly at the selected folder.
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The Windows 7 menu item highlight effect is quite subtle - on my machine, menu items go from light grey to having a light blue shading. This makes it quite hard to tell at a glance which exact menu item is highlighted at any one time. You can see an example...
Started by Barry Kelly on
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Right-click on the Desktop Select "Personalize" Click on "Windows Color" Click on "Advanced and go to windows basic style something Windows 98 ish!!!.
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I'm writing an app in Python that automatically moves stuff around. How do I get the position of the windows start menu bar, so I can account for it in my calculations?
Started by Claudiu on
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You would do the following....
To get the rectangle use SHAppBarMessage().
Here is an example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd162826%28VS.85%29.aspx.
GetMonitorInfo : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd144901%28VS.85%29.aspx.
Ah, found it.
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I would like to write a C# .NET program that will do some transformations to selected images. After I select several images on my desktop (or any other windows folder) and right click them, I would like to see my program in the appeared menu. How ...
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The name of the key is your menu option (e.g..
Jpegfile ).
Associated with the file extension, e.g.
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I don't want the start menu itself hidden, but I'd like to hide menus and programs in "All programs" that aren't used often. Is this possible?
Started by Andrew Grimm on
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If you mean the "all programs" menu in the start menu (bottom left), then there'll maybe don't mind the good....
This feature is not available for the regular Windows XP Start Menu, there is no other way than automatically.
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Hello,
I am running (and love) Windows 7 RC1 on my machine.
In the first real weird thing I have seen in Windows 7 -- all of my programs have disappeared from the start menu. So if I click the start button and click all programs it shows an empty white...
Started by Seth Spearman on
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Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs to get total programs in that folder are less than 70 because of the Start Menu set to "hidden" (don't know if in the English Windows it's as "hidden", I use a portuguese version of ....
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When I click start, and then 'All Programs' (or select a sub menu of all programs) I get a grey menu which does not respond for about 5 seconds - after this it is ok.
Any idea what is causing the menu to behave sluggishly? What can be done to fix this...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Some amount a roaming profile), and the shortcuts' destinations don't exist on your computer, then Windows may.
What's happening is that XP is reading through all the Start Menu folders and entries.
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