Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Eclipse Starting with a Specific workspace


As I am working for different client at one given point of time, so sometimes it becomes cumbersome to switch the workspaces for different clients. Even sometime it is mandatory to open more than one eclipse and work with them in parallel. So managing them and switching between workspaces not only consumes times but also irritates.

I wanted to tackle this issue by creating different shortcuts for each workspace. Eclipse has easy solution for my problem.

To create shortcut to open eclipse with a particular workspace follow the steps mentioned below.

1. Browse to eclipse installation folder and right click on eclipse.exe.


2. You will see a shortcut at your desktop. Open the shortcut properties menu which pops up a shortcut properties.

3.In the target add the following text -data <YOUR_WORKSPACE_LOCATION>


4.Click on OK.

Now once you click on the shortcut, it would not prompt you to select the workspace and it will open the workspace associated to the location specified.
Now you can create as many as shortcut you want and refrain from switching between the different workspaces.

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Enable/Disable Quick Launch Bar in Windows 7

This article is just a memory references. Whenever I install/upgrade windows 7, I miss quick launch from my system. So I end up searching from Google and going through different unsatisfactory/non-informative links.

In this article, enabling quick launch has been demonstrated well.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-enable-or-disable-quick-launch-bar-toolbar-in-windows-7/

In most of the other articles people are selling their own software which is not required to enable and disable the quick launches. Beware of such people and use this article.