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A Tutorial for Hiding your Recent Items in Vista.
This next Microsoft Office Trick and Tip is especially handy when you work at a “public” computer at the office. This probably isn’t necessary at home unless you’re working with multiple users at one computer. The problem is...
Show Your Hidden Files in Microsoft Vista.
With the next Vista Tip and Trick you have to be somewhat careful. There are lots of files hidden in Microsoft Vista (and XP) and it can be useful to see them. But do be careful; the hidden system and program files aren’t hidden for nothing;)....
Stop Websites From Resizing Firefox When you Visit Them.
And it’s Monday again, I hope you all had a great weekend!! Today’s Tip and Trick might seem what unusual for someone who writes about Microsoft Software. The readers that are a bit longer around have read in the articles about creating...
How To Backup Important Data.
This guest post was written by James Ricketts who writes on a number of subjects related to Windows registry tools and PC fixes. How to Backup Important Data Research conducted by a major software company has reported that 9 out of 1...
3 Quick Tips for Windows Users.
You pay for Internet every month but do you know if your router is up-to-date? If it’s not up-to-date you may not be getting all the speed you deserve. Microsoft’s Internet Connectivity Evaluation Tool can tell you whether your ro...
I Can Not Find My USB Drive In Vista.
Normally when you insert a USB drive into your computer you should hear a beep/sound and your USB flash drive should automatically appear in the device list of your computer. That is what should happen but sometimes it happens that your USB drive is ...
Cool Vista Trick: Create a Shortcut to Clear the Clipboard.
Earlier this week I received a blog post with a really genius tweak from a blog where I’m subscribed too. If you are not subscribed to this blog you better hurry up and do so because this blog is great. It’s called How-To Geek and it̵...
Speed Up Vista with Windows Ready Boost
In today’s Vista Tip and Trick I want to show you a new Windows feature which is new with the coming of Vista. This speed up trick is called Windows Ready Boost and works pretty simple but before I begin the actual (few) steps, I’ll expla...
Disable the Indexing of the Drives.
This is a follow up of the Vista Speed Up Trick that I showed you yesterday. This was the article where I showed you how to disable the Windows Search Service. Today I want to take it a step further by disabling indexing of the drives B...
Speed Up Vista by Disabling the Windows Search Service.
I hope you all had a great weekend and that you learned something last week with Excel tutorial week. In about a month we’ll have another Excel week but I don’t know this weeks theme yet so if you have any ideas or requests please feel fr...
Quick Key to Show Your Lost Mouse.
Today’s Vista Tip and Trick is a trick with a quick key to show the mouse when you’ve lost him. From time to time the mouse pointer on a Windows Vista system may be hard to find. You can display mouse pointer trails, but I’m ...
Hide the Mouse When You are Not Using Him
Okay, we had a break for a week or so to make some changes to the blog but it’s time to get back on track with some very cool Tips & Tricks and this is for today a cool Vista Trick. It depends of your configuration but when you are w...
Disabling Unnecessary Windows Features.
It’s Friday and I want to close this week with a Vista Tip Trick. Vista is a pretty great system but a heavy system; it asks a lot of power. There are most likely a lot of Windows features running on your computer that you don’t need. In ...
Tag Your Documents in Vista.
One of the new features of Microsoft Vista is that you can tag your documents and files. This is handy if you are searching for specific documents or when you are organizing your files. This Tip and Trick isn’t only useful for Microsoft Word do...
Clean Up Your Vista Backups and Restore Points.
I showed you yesterday how what you needed to do when you want to make a backup of your Vista files. But that’s not the only option that Vista has for making backups. Vista has many new features for making backups. Vista saves the previous vers...
Create a Backup Schedule of your Vista Files.
Did your hard disk die, got a virus or was your laptop stolen?? Now you whished you’ve backed it up earlier don’t you? First you should plug-in your external HD because you can’t keep the back-up on your C:\ drive (or you have to wo...
Remove the Vista Security Shield Icon.
I’ve told you yesterday that we would start the week slowly with a Vista Tip and Trick that wasn’t useful for every Windows Vista user. Yesterday we had a tutorial for disabling Vista Aero. Today I want to show you a Vista Tip and Trick t...
Speed Up Vista by Disabling Aero.
Hi folks, I hope you all had a great weekend!! And I hope that you all are looking forward for some cool computer tips and tricks because we have some special ones lined up for you this week. Monday is a day that you take it a bit slower than...
Play Your CD’s Automatically or Stop Them From.
Today we have another Vista Tip and Trick that can either be a blessing or a curse. If you don’t like it you now know a way to stop your CD’s from playing automatically. To play your CD’s automatically you’ll need to ta...
Change the Size of the Vista Desktop Icons.
Here’s a cool Vista Trick that I know you’ll love. One of the visual changes in vista is that the desktop Icons are much bigger than they were in Windows XP. You’ll either love this or you’ll hate this. What mos...
Make the Text in Vista Better Readable.
The next Tip and Trick is a quick one for Vista. The normal and default text size in Vista is 96 DPI. But as most things in Vista this is pretty easy to adjust. Without using a customized setting you can adjust it to 120 DPI. If you want to u...
Using Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Later as Your RSS Reader.
Just a short message about something cool that I was reading this morning that might be interested for you. Most of you know that Microsoft Outlook 2007 can be used as an RSS Reader and if you have Outlook 2007 then you are probably using it s...
