New to Office2000 Windows2000 and Millennium Places bar information here Office XP users information here If you would like to add your own folder to the Places Bar (seen in the File/Open and File/Save or SaveAs dialogs), you can do this by editing the Windows Registry. You will need to remove (rather "hide") one of […]

How did I capture all of the icons posted on the Outlook icon pages? (Along with many more not posted here yet.) Using Microangleo, IconCool editor, and other extractor utilities, you can extract the images from icon libraries, usually identified by the extension *.dll but *.exe can hold icons as well. Tip: You can easily […]

When you add sites to the Trusted, Restricted or Local Intranet zones, they are stored in the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\​Microsoft\​Windows\​CurrentVersion\​Internet Settings\​ZoneMap. Each site has is represented by a key and the DWORD indicated which zone the site is in: DWORD value of 1 = Local Intranet DWORD value of 2 = Trusted DWORD value of […]

Internet Explorer includes shortcuts to several search sites, but many more exist, or the ones included are for the basic searches and you prefer to use advanced settings. While you can't easily change the IE settings, you can create your own address bar search using any search site that returns a URL containing the search:: […]

How to view the temp folders and files in Microsoft Windows. This includes the Temporary Internet Files folder, which you can expand to see all of the other folders.

When you press Alt+Tab you may see one or more generic windows titled "CDTNoteSite" and are unable to bring these windows into focus. Selecting one appears to do noting. If you look in Task Manager, you don't see a file running by this or a similar name. Is it spyware? A virus? A trojan? Something […]

Does it annoy you when Windows installs an Automatic update that requires a restart when you are busy doing something and don't want to restart immediately but can only 'sleep' it for a few minutes, before the annoying alert comes up again? If so, you can try a Registry hack to prevent automatic restarting after […]

When Internet Explorer is configured to use Protected Zones, you can not print pages to PDF's using Acrobat's PDF printer. Instead, you'll get an error similar to this one:             D:Documentswebpage.pdf             You don’t have permission to save in this location.             Contact the administrator to obtain permission.             Would you like to save in […]

Type (or paste) the shell command in the Start Search or into the Run dialog (Start Menu, Programs, Accessories) and press Enter. If Windows Explorer is already open, you can type the command in the address bar and press Enter. The most useful commands for Outlook: shell:AppData – takes you to the roaming app data folder […]