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Windows Tips
Disable Cutesy Effects to Speed Up Windows XP You need to decide whether you want to be entertained by Microsoft?s dog and pony show,
or if you want to be productive. If you choose the latter, disable all the animations,
slides, fades, shadows, and translucent effects that hog system resources. More ... How to Repair a Damaged Excel File Excel worksheets can get corrupt or damaged at any point of time. Just imagine working
on important financial figures and power goes off. And when power comes back, you
cannot access your worksheet or the excel file fails to open. Now what to do? More ... Disable Taskbar Button Grouping Have you ever had difficulty finding a window because its taskbar button was grouped with
other window's taskbar buttons? You can easily prevent this annoyance. More ... How to change a Folder's Icon If you're a heavy computer user, you have many different folders for your documents,
spread sheets, pictures, music and other things. one thing that can slow you down
is that they all use the same beige-colored icon. Fortunately, it's easy to change
a folder's icon. More ... Put a Shut Down Button on Your Desktop Regardless of which version of Windows you use, it requires several steps to shut the
system down. It's like this frustrating system won't let you go without one final bit
of frustration. Well, you can reduce shut down to one step by placing a Shut Down
shortcut on your desktop. More ... Turn Off the User Account Control Although the User Account Control protects your system from hackers, there are situations
where it's just an annoyance, for example if you're not connected to the Internet,
or if you're trying to troubleshoot your computer. More ... Put a Help and Support Center Shortcut on Your Desktop Windows XP's built-in Help and Support Center provides troubleshooters. There's
a troubleshooter for the Display, Hardware, Input Devices, Network, Printer, Sound,
System Startup, and Shutdown and many more. Wouldn't it be handy to have a Help and
Support shortcut right on your desktop? More ... Create Your Own Custom Taskbar Toolbar Creating your own custom Taskbar toolbar is so quick and easy that you can easily
create one to hold related shortcuts for a specific task and when the task is
complete you can quickly remove the the toolbar, keeping the shortcuts folder for
when you need to perform the same task again. More ... Change a Drive Letter Sometimes when you install a storage device on your PC, Windows seems to assign
it an arbitrary drive letter. Windows assigns different a drive letter for each
PC that I plug the flash drive into. This plays havoc with applications that run
directly from the flash drive. Fortunately it's very easy to change a drive letter. More ... Cover Your Tracks in Internet Explorer Whenever you use Internet Explorer it leaves a track of your activities which someone
else using your computer can easily follow. This information is stored in the history
list, cookies folder, and browser cache. When you delete a file, it's not really gone,
someone else using your computer can easily restore it. Use the information in this
article to cover your tracks in Internet Explorer. More ...
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