Turning off win xp master volume beep sound
Aren’t you annoyed by the beep that is so loud?
I got pretty frustrated after trying to look for disablement under volume control preferences. Nothing there. Also turning off all sound notifications at control panel (including Exclamation sound) didn’t help.
Still nothing, just one aloud beep.
Windows XP Volume Control
Here’s the quickest way I found to disable it:
- Go to My Computer
- rightclick for Properties
- tab Hardware
- button Device Manager
- menu View
- set checkbox Show Hidden Devices
- navigate to Non-Plug and Play drivers
- open Beep
- tab Drivers
- button Stop
- combo Disabled
- button OK
- Congratulations!
Disabling beep driver forever
If you find a better way, please let me know :)
Usability of the week: MS Project 2007 search dialog
How to search for all tasks in MS Project file?
You can’t. By default MS Project is searching for only expanded tasks. So it is obvious to expect search dialog to have checkbox for all-nodes search.
But looks like there is no such checkbox so you always have to expand.
Instead of the checkbox the search dialog has pretty much only two combos: “Test:” and “Field:” (”Search:” has just “Up” and “Down”) :
Maybe it’s just me but they look funny and probably used only for about 0.1% of the searches people do? :)
PS! Should we be worried when project file size suddenly drops from 1MB to 400KB but all information is still there?
Refreshing eclipse workspace with ant script
Did you knew that if you have ant build.xml in eclipse Ant view then you can refresh your eclipse workspace simply using:
<eclipse.convertPath filesystempath=”${basedir}” property=”resource.basedir”/>
<eclipse.refreshLocal resource=”${resource.basedir}” depth=”one”/>
?
Very handy for build scripts to make sure eclipse resources are in sync after the build.
Thanks to Roland for the tip!
