Showing posts with label vista. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vista. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Couple of Vista Utils

I found a couple of things that make life with Vista easier. The first is Start++, made by one of the MS devs. It adds some nice shortcut functionality the the start menu. The second is already built-in, but I was waiting on a Powertoy to do it. If you like the "Command Prompt From Here" powertoy, all you have to do to duplicate this functionality in Vista is Shift-Right_Click on a directory and select it from the context menu. Note that this only works in the right pane.

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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Eclipse 3.3M5 on Vista

So I just finished installing Vista on my work laptop (mostly so I could see the improvements Eclipse made for Vista support) and I have to say I'm really impressed with both. First, there are tons of new things in M5, like the new forms, splash, etc, that are really nice. As for Vista - it installed in about 30 minutes with no problems and all my programs, shortcuts still work. I'm still checking the performance, but so far, I haven't noticed any problems.

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