I was a bit put off by Al Gore’s fear-mongering, high-rise graphs. He tried to scare us into change, while peering pensively into his MacBook, or whatever model it was (p.s. - Al was an Apple board member at the time!).
Meanwhile, this anonymous guy makes the most compelling argument for action I’ve ever heard. No rhetoric, no fear, just listen to it & you’ll be spreading the word, just as I am:
I was happy to find the same feature already baked into Windows Vista: hold down the shift key, right-mouse click on any folder in the view pane, then select “Open Command Window Here” from the context menu:
But try the same trick on a folder in the Folder Tree, sorry, the command’s not there:
For some reason, in their wisdom the Microsoft UI engineers chose to omit the command from this particular menu.
Quite by chance, I discovered that the choice is available on the File menu in Vista, but it’s not invoked in the same way: instead, select a folder in folder list, hold down the shift key then left-click (i.e. normal click) the File menu:
Vista then displays “Open Command Window Here” at the top of the menu. Okay, happy to have it back, even if it’s in a place I didn’t expect…
Argh! Visual Studio 2008 Express was crashing every time I right-clicked on any code belonging to the C++ template class declaration I was writing for my C++ course assignment. Googling “2008 intellisense crash” turned up a link to an MSDN forum discussion about VS crash when updating intellisense, wherein one of the posters suggested deleting the .ncb file. Before launching my project for the nth time, I deleted the .ncb file. Voila! Intellisense works again.
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