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Add Some Useful Buttons to the Windows 7 Explorer Toolbar

hal9000 — Thu, 24 May 2012 08:00:55 +0000

Although most of the features and functions included in Windows 7 are at least some sort of improvement of previous Windows versions, one of the areas where this is sadly not the case is the Windows Explorer toolbar. Sure, you get a small text based toolbar with a few different functions, which is not so bad in itself, but it’s not what you would call particularly useful most of the time. For instance, ‘Include in Library’, ‘Share with’ and ‘Burn’ are not really buttons many people will use often or[...]

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Get a Detailed Domain Whois Report with DomainHostingview

hal9000 — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:00:37 +0000

It’s not uncommon for someone who knows of or visits a website to want to find out a little bit more about it. This could be out of simple curiosity or might possibly be something more serious like checking the validity of a website and its location and who the owner is. Finding out the background information for a site you’re not sure about could help the decision of whether to visit it or find out more beforehand. Looking to see where a site is coming from or who hosts[...]

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Clear Old Icons from the Windows 7 Notification Area

hal9000 — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:00:25 +0000

Windows 7 has a number of great and useful features that make it the best Windows operating system to date in the eyes of many people. One of the areas of improvement over Vista and XP is the way Windows 7 handles the icons and programs in the system tray notification area. As you know, this part of the task bar is a special area for programs that have started with Windows, currently running programs and system functions to display small icons giving you quick access to those programs or[...]

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Increase the Usefulness of the Windows Open With Feature

hal9000 — Mon, 21 May 2012 08:00:42 +0000

There are literally hundreds of different types of files that have the possibility of being opened in Windows. With that in mind, the chances are pretty good that at some point in time, you will receive a file that can’t be opened in Windows by default because there is no associated program installed to handle it. If you happen to know that you have a program already installed to be able to open the file, there is the feature to right click on it and select the ‘Open With’ option[...]

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A Couple of Tools to put Drive Icons on your Desktop

hal9000 — Sun, 20 May 2012 08:00:24 +0000

It’s always a little frustrating when there are features built into other operating systems that sound like a good idea, but they’re not available as standard in Windows, no matter how big or small. One of these is a small but useful feature Mac users and also users of some Linux distro’s have, is the simple but useful ability to have a shortcut icon automatically appear on the desktop when a removable drive or CD/DVD is inserted into the machine. It’s pretty logical to assume that at some point you[...]

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Block Access to Certain Programs with AppAdmin

hal9000 — Sat, 19 May 2012 08:00:26 +0000

Trying to stop someone opening a file you don’t want them to is relatively easy and putting some form of encryption on it can easily be done. It is a slightly different story if you actually want to stop somebody executing a specific program on a computer. There are ways to do similar things through restricted user accounts where each user can be setup individually. But some people I know use only one Admin account for the whole family which isn’t good for privacy or security. What if you want[...]

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Enable Scrolling in Inactive Windows with Wizmouse

hal9000 — Fri, 18 May 2012 08:00:32 +0000

One of the things about working in Windows, is the sheer amount of programs and Explorer windows you are able have open at one time. And this can be a real help when you have multiple snippets of information which you want to read or edit in different applications. With the average size of the desktop resolution growing through the years, it’s now not uncommon for even inexperienced users to be multitasking and perhaps have browsers, document readers and editors and ordinary Explorer windows all open and being used at[...]

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