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Aug 8, 2006
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A look inside WinInet's index.dat file and changes in IE7 and Vista

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

My frequent bicycling buddy Ari Pernick wrote a couple of articles over on the Windows Network Development blog on the topic of the file, which appears to have gotten a bit of attention lately. This past weekend, I joined Ari and another friend in a ride along the Upper Loop of the annual Tour De Peaks bicycle ride. I'd never done this ride b...

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Aug 8, 2006
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Candidate for most obscure keyboard shortcut: Shift+F8

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

One of the most obscure keyboard shortcuts has got to be Shift+F8, which is used for listbox discontiguous extended selection. Man, what a mouthful. KB article Q301583 doesn't help matters by listing this keyboard shortcut under "Dialog box keyboard shortcuts" even though it isn't a dialog box keyboard shortcut. It's a listbox keyboard shortcut. ...

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