Uninstalling Visual Studio’s Productivity Power Tools

Took me far too long to find this option. Powertools had some annoying quirks that I just couldn’t get passed and I wasn’t using any of it’s good features. Plus either it or the SP1 upgrade has left Visual Studio 2010 in a less than stable state, I find it crashing several times a day. [...]

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Fixing IIS’s “Failed to start monitoring changes to [...] because access is denied” Error

Ran into a weird error today. I had IIS serving pages on my devel machine and after working out the kinks in my code I went to FTP them to the production server. Since that machine didn’t have FTP I shared the folder and uploaded them from another machine that was on my desk. After [...]

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How to Enable or Disable Aero Peek in Windows 7

Aero Peek, which is also known as Desktop Preview, is a new feature in Windows 7 that allows you to quickly hide all the windows open and view your desktop. It can be activated by clicking the Show Desktop icon at the far right of the superbar or by holding the windows key and hitting [...]

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