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August 29, 2007
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Vista Tip: Going Up Vista Windows Explorer gets rid of the back button. |
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August 14, 2008
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April 4, 2007
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Vista Tip: Command Window If you use the command window regularly, you'll be happy to know that you can access it from any Vista folder. |
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September 5, 2008
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March 7, 2008
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File It and Forget It Vista's new common file dialogs, shown here, provide a variety of standard behavior that application developers can customize further and extend. |
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Windows 7 Libraries Before your new operating system can be useful, you need to understand how it organizes your data. |
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April 2004
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Seven Ways to Make Living With Windows Easier Get your operating system to look and work the way you prefer. |
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June 23, 2008
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October 16, 2007
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October 14, 2008
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Make Vista Great, Part 1: Fix Windows Explorer Windows Vista is our favorite punching bag, and not without reason. But the reviled operating system has some amazing potential and with some tweaks and a few utilities, you can do what Redmond didn't: make Vista great. |
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October 10, 2007
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Find the Cookies Folder in Vista Locating the cookies folder in Microsoft Vista is a two-step process. |
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November 25, 2003 |
Get Rid of the Links Folder in IE Tweak the Registry to stop IE from recreating the Links folder after you delete it. |
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Open Explorer to the Folders You Use Most Change the folder Explorer opens to, and create shortcuts that will open Explorer to all your favorite folders... |
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May 17, 2006
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August 2005
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A Simple Fix for Windows' Misbehaving Folders Correct problems affecting the opening of folders and dialog boxes... XP's Image-Viewer Shortcut... Add a 'New Folder' Button to Windows Explorer... |
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July 12, 2006 |
Firefox Favorites to Go Copy FavesToGo from Internet Explorer to Firefox. |
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March 20, 2007
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The Simple Way to Keep Your Private Files Private Make encrypted files stand out, control access to secure files, and a freebie turns folders invisible. |
PC Magazine
May 2, 2007
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Vista Tip: Compatibility Files Storing hidden files in "Virtual Store." |
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January 10, 2007
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Organize with Links Organize your favorite links by adding them to the Internet Explorer 7 Links bar. |
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April 6, 2004
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Organize Your E-Mail In Outlook 2003 New features make sorting and accessing your messages easier than ever. |
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July 2003
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Password-Protect Your Sensitive Files and Folders Keep files private in XP and Me by compressing their folders... the last word on killing Messenger in XP Home. |
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April 4, 2008
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How to Downgrade from Vista to XP Trade Vista for XP's more familiar bugs? Plenty of users say they'd do it in a heartbeat. Here's how to navigate the downgrade. |
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December 9, 2003 |
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October 2001
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Windows Tips: A Better Start for Your Documents Menu Make the Documents menu display the file and folder shortcuts you want to see, use Windows' built-in glossary, optimize Windows' performance... |
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September 25, 2007
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The Express Route to Windows' File and Folder Paths When a dialog box asks you to enter the path to a file or folder, save time with one of these shortcuts. |
PC Magazine
September 10, 2008
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Quick Launch Eyestrain? Tweak your XP or Vista interface to look more like Windows 7 Windows by taking advantage of a little-known feature. |
PC Magazine
April 6, 2004
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Personalize the Windows XP Places Bar If you're running Windows XP, you can use the Tweak UI PowerToy to customize the Places Bar in the standard Open and Save As dialogs. |
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July 2001
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September 21, 2004
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November 2, 2010 |
Microsoft's IE9 Gets a Workout on Windows 7 Latest Net Applications stats show most of those testing Microsoft's new browser are using Windows 7. |
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January 23, 2007
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May 18, 2004
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Stop Win XP from Searching Within ZIP Files How to disable searching in ZIP files by turning off Win XP's support for treating ZIP files as folders. |
PC Magazine
July 1, 2003
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Mysteriously Colored Filenames I am running Microsoft Windows XP Home. Within the past month, the font color of many of the filenames (not folder names) in Windows Explorer has changed -- for no apparent reason -- from the default black to a bright sapphire blue. |
PC World
November 22, 2006
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Everything You Need to Know About Windows Vista It's big, it's ambitious, and it's (finally) here. We give you the bottom line on what Vista does better than XP, where it needs improvement and how to perform the upgrade, step-by-step. |
InternetNews
September 28, 2007
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Would You Like 'XP' With That PC? Microsoft says that, despite Windows Vista's popularity, some customers still want XP so it's extending the older system's commercial availability until next summer. |
