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May 4, 2005
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September 4, 2007
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Vista Tip: Copy as Path A new feature of Vista allows users to copy folder paths. |
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April 6, 2005
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Use SendToX in Windows XP Windows 95 PowerToy is back to help XP users copy filename lists. |
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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. |
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October 16, 2007
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Tweaking SendTo in Vista Trying to install the PowerToy into Vista. |
PC World
September 2005
Scott Dunn |
Windows' Command Line Puts You in Control Text commands can make quick work of many Windows tasks; plus, a free file-copy utility. |
PC Magazine
May 4, 2005
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Context Menu Options to Move or Copy Files You can add "Copy To Folder" and "Move To Folder" to the Windows Explorer context menu, so that when you right-click on a file or folder in Explorer you have the option to copy or move it to another folder. |
PC Magazine
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. |
PC World
April 2002
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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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February 2006
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The Quickest Way to Make Several Folders at Once A shortcut makes multiple folders... Change your 'open with' list... Spiff up your command prompt... |
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June 23, 2008
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Vista Icons Lose Their Filenames Only seeing icons with no filenames in Vista? You can restore the settings easily to get them back. |
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May 30, 2002
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Find and Organize Your Files Here are our top tips and tricks for organizing and manipulating your files. Your filing system will never be in disarray again |
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June 1, 2008
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Restore Drive Type Grouping How to return My Computer to its original state without altering file and folder display in Windows Explorer. |
PC World
February 2002
Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: Take Charge of Your Runaway Start Menu Slim down your Start menu by removing unused items... customize your Documents menu... set the size of file dialog boxes... |
PC Magazine
September 7, 2004
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Using the Start Command in XP Firing up a program in XP from a batch file requires some special knowledge. |
PC World
December 2002
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Internet Tips: Take Control of Your In-Box and Address Book Find stored messages and unearth the location of your online address list... print a copy of your address book. |
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August 3, 2005
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Old DOS Programs Revisited A recent Solutions tip explained how to "Help Windows XP Run Old DOS Programs" by recreating the Autoexec.nt file in the C:\Windows\System32 folder. As it turns out, there's an even easier solution. |
PC World
June 2004
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Make Windows Start and Stop the Way You Want Tips and practical advice on navigating Windows, including how to run an app each time Windows starts... Creating a shutdown folder... etc. |
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December 2000
Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: Superscrub Your Drive Automatically Automate disk maintenance, speed up printing from your laptop... |
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March 16, 2005
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Not-So-Smart Quotes Word's "smart quotes" can cause problems when paste to the command line. |
PC World
October 2005
Scott Dunn |
Keep Your Data Folders in Date Order Automatically Plus: Create more format options for your folders, and make custom right-click menus for your files and folders. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2005
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Deleting IE's Index.dat Files I've been having a problem with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, and I was told that deleting the index.dat file would help. But I have been unable to delete this file from my Windows 98 machine. Help. |
PC Magazine
July 1, 2003
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Creating Linked Folders Do you know a way to "hyperlink" folders? |
PC World
February 27, 2007
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Windows Tips for Everyone Whether you've jumped to Vista or are sticking with XP, our tips will make your computing faster and safer and even a little more stylish. |
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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. |
PC Magazine
August 3, 2004 |
Divide and Contact in Outlook Express How to divide a big contact list (about 150 members) into smaller lists in Microsoft Outlook Express. |
PC World
November 2000
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Windows Tips: Still Tweaking After All These Years Customize with Tweak UI... automate backups for Win NT and 2000... |
PC Magazine
April 16, 2009
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A Quick Fix for Vista Problems Does Windows Vista seem sluggish to you? The slowdown could be caused by any number of things, but there's an easy way to cross a few off your list |
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June 2005
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Six Quick Tips Help Tame Oversize Files and Folders How are you going to keep your multimegabyte files in line? Tame them with these slick file and folder tricks. |
PC Magazine
March 14, 2007 |
Automate Tasks at Shutdown Windows offers the Startup folder, which lets you specify tasks or applications to execute at start-up or log-on. Is there an equivalent for shutdown or logoff? |
PC Magazine
May 4, 2004 |
Windows: 68 Tips & Tricks & More Windows: 68 Tips & Tricks... Edit the Send To Menu... Change Preferences to Speed Searching... |
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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. |
PC Magazine
March 16, 2005
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Keeping a Clean Desktop I like having next to nothing on my desktop, usually just My Computer, My Network Places and Control Panel, though occasionally I'll add a folder for stuff I'm currently working on. |
PC World
April 2004
Scott Dunn |
Seven Ways to Make Living With Windows Easier Get your operating system to look and work the way you prefer. |
PC Magazine
December 9, 2003 |
Rename Files to Match Date/Time Stamp Is there a simple way in Windows XP Professional to rename a group of files, with each filename made up of the date and time of file creation? Yes, there's a way, but it's not that simple. |
PC World
October 2003
Scott Dunn |
Five Steps to a Leaner, Cleaner Windows Here are five things Windows users can do to eliminate clutter in their system folders and maximize the space available on their drives. |
PC World
July 2002
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Create a Start-Up Floppy for Windows 2000 and XP Be prepared in case your Windows 2000 or XP machine won't boot. |
PC World
September 2003
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PC World
December 2004
Scott Dunn |
Remove Unsolicited Junk From Your Context Menus How to remove several items from the menus that pop up when you right-click in Windows Explorer, especially shortcuts to programs that aren't being used. |
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December 1, 2008
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Horribly Slow Browsing, Revisited Turning off Auto-Tuning in Vista. |
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September 25, 2007
Scott Dunn |
Keep Your Data Safe by Reorganizing Windows' Folders Moving the folders that hold your data files off your Windows drive makes backups and recoveries a breeze. |
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September 5, 2008
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Open Objects in Windows Explorer Here's a way to create shortcuts the way you want them. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2005
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Wrong Dialogs Appear One of our readers discovered a technique for adding Move To Folder or Copy To Folder options to the context menu. It turns out, however, that this technique has an unwanted side effect. |
PC World
October 2001
Scott Dunn |
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... |
PC Magazine
November 25, 2003 |
Opening Attached Files Outlook saves attachments in the Temp folder before opening them, and if you want the file someplace else, you have to save it manually. |
PC World
October 2004
Lincoln Spector |
How Do I Share a Printer on My Small Network? Give multiple PCs on your home network access to one printer... Add options to the right-click menu... Sort IE favorites... |
PC Magazine
February 17, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Move Numbers within Filenames Is there a utility or method to help me batch rename files to put track numbers at the front? |
PC World
April 24, 2001
Scott Dunn |
What's on the Menu? You Decide Customize menus and accelerator keys... force Windows to exit or reboot... |
