I think everyone but me knows this, but just in case, I thought I’d blog it.

I’m currently sitting in the Sprint Developer Conference and don’t have my multi-monitor setup.  what I want to do is put visual studio on the left of my single screen, and the browser on the right.  After some experimenting and Googling, I figure out the following. 

If you drag an open program (by holding down the mouse on the title bar) to the edge of the screen, then let go of the mouse when you get to the edge of the screen, that program maximizes in height and the width is half the screen and it is attached (docked) to the side of the page where your mouse pointer was when you let go.

 

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It’s always disconcerting to have a windows update fail.  I in general think of these updates as things that happen in the background that I don’t need to worry about.  Last week, I got a vague error, which after you lookup, basically says “you hand an error”.

So, I decided to give Microsoft Windows 7 support a try (which is a free service to genuine Microsoft Windows 7 Users).  I’d say things went well, though it might have been nice if the error sent me to the answer rather than a lengthy support process.

 

As It Happened

 

So, here is how things happened:

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