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Unleash the power of the Start menu
2007-12-14 06:55:00 Brandon Paddock who works on Search technology at Microsoft developed this convenient add-on for Windows Vista. It allows you to extend the functionality of the Start menu search box. For example, with the add-on installed if you type w vista in to the search box, the Wikipedia entry for vista will automatically be loaded in the ... More About: Power , Start Menu , Menu , The Star
Reveal the contents of password fields
2007-11-20 23:54:00 With the amount of passwords you have to keep track of these days it’s no surprise that most people simply choose to use the password managers that are built in to most browsers to remember their login details. Well, here’s a tip that will let you reveal the contents of those asterisks filled fields. I ... More About: Internet Explorer , Mozilla Firefox , Password , Contents , Fields
How to recover deleted files
2007-11-19 11:21:00 If you’ve accidentally deleted some files, your natural instinct will be to freak out. But, don’t worry, chances are their not lost for good. Files aren’t truly deleted until the space they once occupied on your hard drive is overwritten by more data. Tags: files, recover, recycle bin, undelete, vista, xp More About: Windows X , Windows Vista
Changing your Vista start menu picture
2007-11-13 04:03:00 If you’d like to get rid off the boring old Microsoft default picture in the Vista start menu, its actually quite simple, just follow these steps: Hit the orb and go to Control Panel Select User Accounts Click “change your picture” To add a custom pic, click “Browse for more pictures” down the bottom Find the picture you want and ... More About: Picture , Start Menu , Start , Changing
Improved tab switching set for Firefox 3
2007-11-11 02:40:00 Mozilla today reported on an experimental extension developed by Dão Gottwald looks set to make it’s way in to the release of Firefox 3. The tab preview feature shows actual thumbnails of currently opened tabs. Tags: firefox, tabs More About: Firefox 3 , Switching , Improv , Prove
Changing the cursor for links that open in a new window
2007-11-05 11:40:00 This is a great little tip to get Firefox to change the style of cursor for links that open in a new window, so you’ll know before clicking them. Click Start > Run, or use the search function in Vista’s Start menu and type %AppData%. Press enter. Navigate to the profile folder (Mozilla > Firefox > Profiles) If ... More About: Open , Links , Changing , Cursor , Window
How to make Windows Explorer show file extensions
2007-11-05 11:37:00 You might find as you begin editing certain things on a computer that it’s necessary to change file extensions. Unfortunetly Windows has the display of these turned off by default. To get them to display, follow these instructions Tags: file extensions, vista, windows explorer, xp Related posts Slow Vista Programs Menu? (0) Setting a custom desktop background / wallpaper (0) Select files ... More About: Windows X , Windows Vista , Extensions , Show
Adding a command prompt option to the right click menu
2007-11-01 12:09:00 The command prompt may be somewhat unknown to the more traditional computer user, however, if your computer nerd like me who is continually learning about the more advanced side of computers, the command prompt can become an essential tool. As you increase your need to use the command prompt, you’ll no doubt grow tired of ... More About: Windows X , Windows Vista , Click , Menu , Command
Getting the Run command back in Vista Start Menu
2007-11-01 05:45:00 As you probably know the Start menu has got a pretty big face lift in Windows Vista . One change made was removing the “Run” option from the menu by default. Now, you could always just choose to adapt and use the new search function that’s been added. But, if you don’t like change or you’d ... More About: Start Menu , Back , Menu
Clearing recent items list in Windows Vista
2007-11-01 04:19:00 As Microsoft tend to do with the release of a new operating system, they’ve gone and changed the way you do certain things. One of the things they’ve changed this time is how you clear the most recent documents list, or “Recent Items” list as it’s now called. So, if you’ve been viewing a questionable ... More About: Windows , Windows Vista , Vista , List
A guide to the Microsoft Office 2007 AutoCorrect feature
2007-10-30 09:09:00 Microsoft Office comes with a handy AutoCorrect feature so that you can replace certain strings of text with symbols such as © or ® or ?. Eariler versions of Office come with these turned on by default and a nice collection of replacable text ready to go. In Office 2007 however, only a small collection is ... More About: Microsoft , Microsoft Office , Feature , Guide
How to add a new item to a list without a bullet
2007-10-30 08:46:00 If your creating a bulleted or numbered list in Microsoft Word or Powerpoint, you might be wondering how you can add an item to the list without a bullet appearing beside it. Well, its actually quite easy. More About: List , Item , Bullet , Microsoft Excel
Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition
2007-10-29 01:44:00 Want to take your bookmarks, passwords and other browser settings with you to another computer? Well, now you can with the new portable app - Mozilla Firefox , Portable Edition . More About: Mozilla Firefox
Add additional clocks to your Vista system tray
2007-10-25 04:41:00 Windows Vista comes with a new feature that allows you to add two extra clocks to your system tray. More About: System , Windows Vista , Clocks , Tray
Slow Vista Programs Menu?
2007-10-18 07:20:00 Have you been experiencing long waiting times with the All Programs menu in Windows Vista ? This is a common problem and usually occurs when expanding folders in the menu. Thankfully, this problem can be fixed by telling Windows not to highlight newly installed programs. To do this, right click on the Orb and go to ... More About: Menu , Slow
Changing file associations in Windows Vista
2007-10-15 07:20:00 If you’re like me, you get annoyed with programs like Windows Media Player setting themselves as the default program for certain file types. I prefer to use Winamp for playing music, however WMP seems to think otherwise and goes about setting itself as the default player, even after editing the Winamp options to set it ... More About: Windows Vista , Vista , File , Changing
Copying a path to the Clipboard with Windows Vista
2007-10-04 12:42:00 In previous versions of Windows if you wanted to copy the path to a file, you’d have to navigate to the file and highlight the contents of the address bar and then add the filename to the end of the address. With Vista you no longer have to go through so many steps. All you have ... More About: Windows Vista , Clipboard , Path
Select files using check boxes
2007-09-27 06:54:00 With Windows Vista you can now select files using check boxes, so you don’t have to rely on the ctrl key and accidently losing the selection midway through. More About: Check , Files , Select
Hide/change recent document list in Office 2007
2007-09-23 07:58:00 If you’d like to hide the recent documents list in Microsoft Office programs to avoid people viewing files you’ve recently worked on, or you’d simply like to change the amount of documents dispalyed in the list, follow these steps: Click the Office button at the top left of the program Click “Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc. options” in ... More About: Microsoft Office , Change , List , Recent
Refreshing/Reloading all tabs at once
2007-09-17 12:51:00 Both Internet Explorer and Firefox both provide a handy right click shortcut so you can refresh all pages at once. This could be useful when your connection has dropped out whilst you had more then one page loading or something similar. More About: Mozilla Firefox , Tabs , Loading
Inserting watermarks with Word 2007
2007-09-03 06:11:00 One of the great new features of Microsoft Word 2007 is the ability to ‘watermark’ your documents. For example, you can mark a document as confidential or not to be copied. Here’s how you do it: More About: Microsoft Word , Watermarks , Term , Watermark
How to take a screen capture/screenshot
2007-08-30 07:42:00 This is really quite simple, you don’t need fancy software to take screenshots. Read on and you’ll be taking screenshots in no time! More About: Screen Capture , Screen , Windows X , Windows Vista , Screenshot
Advanced tweaking of Firefox with about:config
2007-08-24 05:41:00 You might not know but Firefox can actually be tweaked beyond the standard settings found in the Tools > Options menu, through the about:config file. To gain access to this file simply type about:config into Firefox’s address bar and hit enter. Got it? Alright, now on to some tweaks! More About: Mozilla Firefox , Tweak , Config , Tweaking
Automatically spell check your email with Outlook 2007
2007-08-23 11:11:00 Don’t you hate it when you send an email only to realise moments later that their was a spelling mistake right in front of your eyes. Well, with Outlook 2007, you can have the program automatically check your spelling as you type your email. Heres how. More About: Email , Check , Outlook 2007 , Ally
Increase download limit with Internet Explorer
2007-08-22 09:51:00 We previously reported on how to increase the download limit with Firefox. Here is a tip for doing the same thing with Internet Explorer . Allowing you to download more then 2 files at a time from a server. More About: Internet Explorer , Download , Xplorer
Adding more columns to Windows Explorer
2007-08-21 02:00:00 Usually Windows Explorer just displays the standard columns (Name, Size, Type, Date Modified). To add more columns, follow these steps: Right click on any of the columns From here you can either check or uncheck columns you’d like to add, or alternatively, click on the more option down the bottom. You’ll now be presented with a large array ... More About: Windows X , Windows Vista , Columns
Changing Vista Desktop Icon Size
2007-08-21 01:55:00 The default desktop icons in Windows Vista are quite large, to change this; right click on the desktop, select View and set to classic icons. More About: Icon , Desktop , Changing
Automatically Delete Temporary Internet Files
2007-08-21 01:48:00 To have Internet Explorer automatically delete temporary internet files when you close the browser follow these steps: From the tools menu, select Internet Options Click the advanced tab Scroll down to security Check the box labelled Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed More About: Internet Explorer , Privacy , Delete
Viewing hidden menus
2007-08-16 06:44:00 Many Windows Vista applications and even some applications dating back to XP (later versions of Windows Media Player) hide their menus, which can be quite annoying. Now, if you don’t want to fuss about in the settings trying to enable menus in various programs, you can use this handy shortcut: whenever you need to bring ... More About: Windows X , Hidden , Viewing
5 cool Add-ons for Firefox
More articles from this author:2007-08-10 07:11:00 We all know Firefox is a great browser. But how about adding some extra functions to it? In this article were going to take a look at five add-ons to give your copy of Firefox an extra boost! More About: Cool 1, 2 |
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