Earlier this month I did a post on command line parameters to create an Outlook item (such as an email or appointment). In that post I mentioned it was easy to create a shortcut for them, but realised afterwards, that it might be beneficial to cover creating the shortcut.
To create a shortcut, right click on the Windows desktop, and click on New » Shortcut:
Windows allows you to use commands as shortcuts in the Run prompt (such as calc to launch calculator). I typically use a lot of shortcuts to launch apps or open files I use a lot, but don;t want to drop a lot of shortcuts in any of the standard folders from which Windows allows shortcuts to be used.
Fortunately, you can add additional folders to use for shortcuts. To add a new folder, open the System window (Win+Pause|Break) and click on Advacned system settings< :
This post is part of a series on the Old Calculator for Windows 10 replacement for the default Windows 10 Calculator App.
The Old Calculator for Windows 10 app installs a calculator which looks like the one in Windows 7 and before.
The best reason I ahev for using this replacement, is the speed of launching. I find that apps from the Microsoft Store take so long to load; this replacement starts very quickly (just the the calculator of old).
This post is part of a series on the Old Calculator for Windows 10 replacement for the default Windows 10 Calculator App.
With the Old Calculator for Windows 10 app installed, it is accessible from the Windows Start menu:
Continue reading “Windows 10 Calculator Replacement: Using the App”
This post is part of a series on the Old Calculator for Windows 10 replacement for the default Windows 10 Calculator App.
The Old Calculator for Windows 10 can be downloaded from Winaero:
Continue reading “Windows 10 Calculator Replacement: Installation”
Time has flown over the last 12 months. It was this time last year that I complained on Twitter about the new Calculator app in Windows 10 and Steve Endow suggested an alternative called Old Calculator for Windows 10.
Well, I’ve installed it without issue on a few machines since then and not had any issues, so I thought I’d share a little more about this app.
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| Using the App |
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I’m posting this one because it is quite silly and I’m probably not going to remember it, if I don’t write it down.
I logged onto my main desktop the other day and all of the desktop icons were a lot smaller than usual:
I’ve added a GP Resources section to this site; as well as links to the GP Table Reference, I’ve created a Microsoft Dynamics GP Compatibility page which shows the compatibility with SQL Server, Windows Server and Windows from Dynamics GP 2010 through to 2018.
If you see any errors, or can contribute information on supported versions, prior to 2010, please contact me with the information.
One of the things that annoys me about Windows Server 2012 and later, is that the Server Manager launches automatically whenever you log in. This wouldn’t be a problem, if it didn’t take so long to fully launch.
Well, I did some exploring and investigation, and it turns out that the Server Manager is being launched at user log on by a Scheduled Task:
Continue reading “PowerShell to Stop Server Manager Loading”
As Windows has progressed through the years, some settings have changed and been moved. One of the ones I struggle to find is how to set icons so that they always appear in the system tray. I’m sure this used to be done via right click on the system tray, but in Windows 10, the setting is buried in the Settings app.
In theory, it is possible to find it via a Start menu search, but I never remember the exact words to find it (or if I do they don’t seem to work until after I’ve found the settings via the Settings app.
A few weeks ago, I did a post on using the ms-settings URIs as shortcuts to quickly access the settings.
To quickly get to the relevant settings for choosing which icons show in the system tray, hit Win+R and typems-settings:taskbar:
Continue reading “Choose Which Icons Show in Windows 10 System Tray”