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The majority of feedback around this change was positive, but, as with most UI changes, there has been a vocal group that preferred the older placement.  When asked what they liked about the old placement, 99% of the time the response was, “I liked the ability to quickly close tabs by repeatedly clicking on the ‘X’ without moving my mouse.” 

I’ll admit it: I used that feature quite a bit to quickly close tabs.  That is, until I found out that there are better and more efficient ways to clean up the Tab Well.  Once I discovered these, I never looked back.  So, for this “Tips and Tricks” article, I wanted to share some of those ways to quickly close documents. 

#1: Window->Close All Documents

Under the Window menu is a handy command: Close All Documents.  Clicking this will prompt you to save your work and will then close all documents that are currently open.  Yes, this does affect more than just the documents in the Tab Well – floating documents are also closed.  If you don’t want to take your hands off the keyboard, simply press Alt+ W, L, to invoke the command (You can also assign it a keyboard shortcut under Tools->Options->Environment->Keyboard).

 #2: Ctrl+F4

Another handy shortcut is Ctrl+F4 which, on most machines, is bound to the command Window.CloseDocumentWindow.  Pressing this keyboard combination will close the current document window that has focus.  Therefore, if you want to quickly get rid of a number of items in your tab well, just keep pressing Ctrl+F4 and eventually they’ll be gone. 

#3: Right-Click->Close All But This

If you want to close all but one open file, simply right-click on the tab and select Close All But This.  This will close all open documents (floating included) except the tab you’ve right-clicked on. 

#4: Middle Click

For those that prefer to use the mouse instead of the keyboard, there’s still a quick way to close tabs: the middle click.  This shortcut actually works in a number of other applicatios as well.  Simply place your mouse on the tab well and middle click to close the tab.  You can keep your mouse in the first spot and click away.

The Currently installed programs list in the Add or Remove Programs tool lists all of the Windows-compatible programs that have an uninstall program or feature. Occasionally, a program may not be removed completely, and the registry key that is used to display the program in the Currently installed programs list remains. In this situation, you may need to manually remove the program from the Currently installed programs list in Add or Remove Programs. To do this, follow these steps.

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedt32, and then click OK.
3. In Registry Editor, locate the following registry key:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

4. In the left pane, click the Uninstall registry key, and then click Export on the File menu.
5. In the Export Registry File dialog box that appears, click Desktop in the Save in list, type uninstall in the File name box, and then click Save.
6. Each key listed under Uninstall in the left pane of Registry Editor represents a program that is displayed in the Currently installed programs list of the Add or Remove Programs tool. To determine which program that each key represents, click the key, and then view the following values in the details pane on the right:

   DisplayName: The value data for the DisplayName key is the name that is listed in Add or Remove Programs.
   -and-
   UninstallString: The value data for the UninstallString key is the program that is used to uninstall the program.

7. After you identify the registry key that represents the program that you removed but which is still displayed in the Currently installed programs list of Add or Remove Programs, right-click the key in the left pane of the Registry Editor window, and then click Delete.
   Click Yes in response to the "Are you sure you want to delete this key and all of its subkeys?" message.
8. On the File menu, click Exit to quit Registry Editor.
9. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.
   In the Currently installed programs list, verify that the program whose registry key you deleted is no longer listed.
10. Do one of the following:
    • If the program list is not correct in Add or Remove Programs, double-click the Uninstall.reg file that you saved to your desktop in step 5 to restore the original list of programs in the registry.
      -or-
    • If the program list is correct in Add or Remove Programs, right-click the Uninstall.reg file on your desktop, and then click Delete.

Do you know how to add new iterations in TFS, than, when add new work items, we can select the newly created iterations.

Required Permissions

To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the Project Administrators security group for the team project. You cannot explicitly set the necessary security permissions for this procedure. For more information, see Team Foundation Server Permissions.

To modify the team project iterations

1. On the Team menu, point to Team Project Settings, and then click Areas and Iterations.

2. On the Areas and Iterations dialog box, click the Iterations tab.

3. Use the toolbar buttons to change the current iteration:

   • Click Add a child node to add a new node under the currently selected node.

   • Click Delete node to delete the currently selected node. In the Delete Nodes dialog box, select the new path for the items to reference, and then click OK.

   • Click Move a node up amongst its siblings to promote the currently selected node higher in the tree.

   • Click Move a node down amongst its siblings to demote the currently selected node lower in the tree.

   • Click Make the selected node a child of its preceding sibling to make the currently selected node a child of the node immediately above it.

   • Click Make the selected node a sibling of its parent to make the currently selected node a peer of the node immediately above it.

4. Click Close.

At last, pay attentions, the name of an iteration node cannot:

• Contain more than 255 characters.

• Contain Unicode control characters.

• Contain any one of the following characters: \ / $ ? * : " & > < # % |

• Be a system reserve name such as prn, com1, com2, com3, com4, com5, com6, com7, com8, com9, com10, lpt1, lpt2, lpt3, lpt4, lpt5, lpt6, lpt7, lpt8, lpt9, nul, con, aux.

• Be one of the following characters: “.” or “..”

• Be characters considered invalid by the local file system. For example, Windows-based desktop operating systems might consider the following characters to be invalid if used in the path name: ASCII/Unicode characters 1 through 31, quotation mark ("), less than (<), greater than (>), pipe (|), backspace (\b), null (\0) and tab (\t).

• Have a total path length greater than 4000 characters.

• Have a total hierarchy depth of more than 14 levels.