copy and paste files when remote desktop'ing

something i’ve wanted for a long time, not sure if this is new with the Vista version of RDP (6.0) but it’s very easy to setup:

- click ‘Options >>’ button after you run Remote Desktop

- go to the ‘Local Resources’ tab and click ‘More…’ button

- check one of your drives

two things will happen: you’ll see the drive you picked listed as a drive on the remote computer’s list of drives, and you’ll be able to copy files to the clipboard on the remote computer and paste them locally--

getting VS to launch in admin mode when double-clicking .sln file

this has been bugging me forever, finally got it worked out: the trick is that .sln files are associated with the ‘Visual Studio Version Selector’, not with Visual Studio itself. so you have to set the version selector, not visual studio, to run in administrator mode by default. first you have to find it:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\MSEnv\VSLauncher.exe

then you just go to the .exe’s Properties window -> Compatibility tab -> Privilege Level frame and check 'Run this program as an administrator'.

vista shadow copies just saved me

vista keeps shadow copies of files and folders when it creates its daily restore points. so if you delete something accidentally, right-click on the folder and go to the “Previous Versions” tab; you can browse through the contents of the folder as it existed at the last restore point. there’s no fancy gui and you only get the last 2 restore points, but it got the job done--