Visual Studio: Tabs as spaces

(if you work for some loonatic)
Tools->Options, 'Text Editor', C/C++, Tabs, then click 'Insert Spaces'

Visual Studio: change printing font

Open Tools menu,
choose Options.
Expand Environment,
Click Fonts and Colors.
Find 'Show settings'
Select Printer.
Change font and size

Vista cant hear line in?

To enable line-in monitoring:

-Right click speaker icon in tray.
-Left click playback devices.
-left click speakers.
-left click properties.
-left click levels tab.
-find "Line-In/Mic" or similar, click the little speaker.

Outlook cannot open the outlook window

Symptom:Run outlook, recieve popup stating "...Outlook cannot open the outlook window"

Solution: open cmd, type: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE" /resetnavpane

XP missing usbpen drive

Theres many reasons. but this fixed one for me.

I could see usbpen in disk manager, but not listed in explorer.

run regedit, goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, here is everything attached.

the usbpen may be listed as something like #{efab6094-5e12-11df-86ee-0019700b351d}

you will need to guess, be correct! you might be able to get info from DeviceManager->Disk drives->Your usb key name->properties->details->Device Instance ID

change the registery entry to \DosDevices\J: (or whatever drive is available instead of J)

You will need a reboot

MMC cannot find ......msc (XP)

run

Regsvr32 "C:\WINDOWS\system32\msxml3.dll"

will work straight away - no restart needed.

More visual studio recent projects

Go to Tools->Options->Environment->General

find recent files area, change value next to "items shown in recently used list" to 20.

Visual Studio 2008 settings.

To show Ln Col Ch:
Tools >> Options >> Environment >> General - check "Show status bar".

Tools >> Options >> Environment >> Startup - uncheck "Download content every"

Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->General - check on "Track Active Item..."

Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->VC++Project Settings - check on "Build Timing"