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Using Run dialog (WinKey+r), type: shell:common startup or from the command line (cmd.exe) do: explorer.exe shell:common startup Reference(s): http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/shell-commands-to-access-the-special-folders/ http://www.osattack.com/windows-7/huge-list-of-windows-7-shell-commands/ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2806079

Details on how to configure Visual Studio to use WinMerge for merge and compare operation is documented in  http://blog.paulbouwer.com/2010/01/31/replace-diffmerge-tool-in-visual-studio-team-system-with-winmerge/ .

From VirtualBox manual, paravirtualized network adapter provides the best performance. To get this interface from working within VirtualBox, you need to download the drivers separately/manually. Note that Windows driver online update utility does not have it as well. Since driver is open source it can be found in few locations. A good source is from Red Hat, download it from this location  http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/ . Download virtio-win*.iso, mount it and install driver for your OS.

Sample code to create a file in VBA using FileSystemObject which is part of Microsoft Scripting Runtime. See this link on how to reference MSR. Option Explicit Sub TestMe() Dim fs As FileSystemObject Dim ts As TextStream Set fs = New FileSystemObject Set ts = fs.CreateTextFile("C:\tmp\file.txt", True) ts.WriteLine "Header1, Header2" ts.WriteLine "1," & CStr(DateTime.Now) ts.Close Set ts = Nothing Set fs = Nothing End Sub

From Visual Basic for Applications IDE, do Tools | References... then look for Microsoft Scripting Runtime or browse for C:\Windows\System32\scrrun.dll. Microsoft  Scripting Runtime provides the following classes: Dictionary Drive Drives Encoder File Files FileSystemObject Folder Folders TextStream

Do File | Options | Customize Ribbon | select Developer option.

C:\>powershell PS C:\>[System.Net.Dns]::gethostentry("8.8.8.8")