Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Notepad2 gets a nice update. I was trying to figure out how to replace notepad.exe on Vista with Notepad2 and was not having much success. Then I found this post and it looks even easier than my instructions for how to replace Notepad on XP:
Download and extract Notepad2. Rename Notepad2.exe to notepad.exe. Find c:\windows\notepad.exe and c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe and set the owner to ‘Administrators’, and grant Administrators full control. Using Windows Explorer, drag and drop the renamed notepad2.exe to c:\windows and c:\windows\system32.
To take ownership of the file get properties on notepad.exe and select Advanced on the security tab. Then go to the owner tab and change the owner.