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April 6, 2011Windows Technologies

How to Change the Behavior of Taskbar Grouping

By default, when you enable the Group similar taskbar buttons option in Taskbar properties, items are grouped only when the taskbar buttons begin to get too small, and then the item that you opened first, is grouped first. To change this behavior, create a "TaskbarGroupSize" DWORD entry in the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced The values for this key are: 0 – (Default) Group by age (oldest group first) 1 – Group by size (largest group first) 2 – Group any group of size 2 or more 3 – Group any group of size 3 or more Log off and then […]

April 6, 2011Repackaging

Troubleshooting Firefox

Invoking Firefox with profile manager option upon launch to select the desired profile to be loaded: firefox.exe –profilemanager When you have to troubleshoot performance issues with Firefox, you can launch FF in safe mode using below option: firefox.exe -safe-mode -safe-mode Launches the application with all extensions disabled, for that launch only. (Extensions are not loaded, but are not permanently disabled in the Extension Manager datasource). When you have to investigate any of the FF behavior issues, you can use the debug option as shown below: firefox.exe -console -console: Starts the application with a debugging console. For further list of […]

April 6, 2011Scripting

Visual Basic: The Registry Made Easy

VBA Hacker A Classy Way to Bypass the Awkward Registry API By Romke Soldaat Compared with the bad old INI files, the Windows registry is not only a safer place for system and application settings, it also offers more ways to store different types of data, and lets you organize your settings in a hierarchical manner. But, unlike the straightforward functions that deal with INI files, the registry API is more complex. You can’t just read and write data with a single function call – you must open a key before you can access it, and close the key when […]