Open the Tools->Options
Under Source Control -> Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, click on the “Configure User Tools” button.
If you don’t see any extensions being setup, add extensions using the following method:
Click on the Add button.
Specify extension with the dot. For example “.cs” without quotes.
Select operation as “Compare”.
Select command as C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\diffmerge.exe
The command location depends on where you installed and which version of Visual Studio you are using. Just lookup for the diffmerge.exe. On a 64 bit Windows the file is located under x86 program files folder.
Set the arguments to %1 %2 %6 %7 %5 /ignorespace
Note: This doesn’t ignore blank lines added or removed.
You are set for comparing files ignoring white space.
Add additional extensions.
Do you hear the fan running loud after shutting down Windows 7?
Do you have ASUS motherboard?
Your Windows 7 computers’ cooler or fan won’t stop after shutdown?
Here is what happened to me and what a user found out as the solution.
During the beta days I experienced a strange problem on my computer. When I shutdown, I still would hear the fan running loud. I didn’t know where it was coming from. I had Windows 7 beta on two computers and the problem occurred only on one computer. I think what I have done was opened up the computer and then shut down Windows 7. I think the fan that was running was the power supply fan.
This was a computer I assembled and had ASUS P5B-E motherboard. I posted an article on this blog about this problem. It turned out that a lot of people with ASUS motherboards had the same problem. There were posts at Microsoft and ASUS forums asking about the same problem. No one had a clear solution.
Then one day a reader on my blog posted a solution in the comments. It worked perfectly for my setup. Since then lot of people have been able to use the same solution to resolve their problem.
Since then I have changed motherboards on all my computers to Gigabyte. They are not known to be as advanced as ASUS. But I like them now for two reasons. First, they are cheaper. Doesn’t mean they are cheaper in quality. So far I haven’t had any problems or regrets about their quality. Second, all the ones I have purchased have dual BIOS. All my motherboards were bricked at some point by BIOS upgrades. A dual BIOS is very welcome feature for someone like me.
So, about the solution. A user named lemon75 (that’s all the information I have about this user) posted this comment with the solution in that post: Click “Start”, on “Computer” click right mouse button and select “Properties”, click “Device Manager”, select “IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controllers” group, only contains one device called “VIA 1394 OHCI Compilant Host COntroller” on that click right mouse button and select “Properties”, select “Power Management” tab, and finally check the “Allow the computer to tur off this device to save power” box!
Even today I am getting a fairly large number of hits on this page and people are searching for the same symptoms I and others were facing.
