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How to use a printer from windows7 when you don’t have the needed device driver

At office we have a Xerox printer that don’t have a driver for windows7 (yet?), but I still manage to print from it without any hassle. How – simply by using the incredible XP Mode. The bane of the last two windows OS (Vista and Win7) was lack of driver support, although win7 has better support you can still find several vendors that still don’t have drivers for their products especially for the 64bit OS version. Luckily the new Virtual PC/XP Mode supports external devices and setting a new hardware...
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What to do when DebugBreak won’t let me debug on windows7/Vista

A curious problem that I had today at work: I’m working on a component that suppose to run as another “service”. Because of the environment limitations I could not  just debug using visual studio (F5) and had to set my debug points manually using __debugbreak. I recently installed Windows 7 and so far I enjoy using it until today instead of showing the usual dialog that asks if I want to Debug the program I got a message telling me that the application has stopped responding. No matter what...
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