For some time now, I was getting very annoyed while copy-pasting content from other software into Microsoft Word 2010. I would press CTRL+C at some other software and then would press ALT+TAB to go into an open Word document and press CTRL+V to paste, but it would not. So I had to move my fingers […]

A friend just called me this morning that their notebook with Windows 7 Starter started today showing the same icon for every Start menu item and for shortcuts (e.g. on the desktop) and when trying to open them the same program would always try to open them. Seems he had right-clicked and done “Open With…” [...]

While working with the Visual Studio IDE, one of the most helpful features is the smart tag. You know the little arrow, which when clicked gives us new options to choose from. It would be great if there was a shortcut key for everything. It is really annoying sometimes that we have to use the mouse and [...]