Tips & Tricks for Windows, Office, and Whatever
This is a very old list of utilities I like (or liked) to use - I'm not keeping this page up so please don't ask me to add your utility to it. Here are some of my favorite utility programs for Win95/98. Most are freeware, others are shareware and … [Continue reading]
Works on Windows Millennium and Windows XP too! You cannot have 10 small links, as you can with Office2000 places bar, but you can change the default places to local or network locations. Edit the following registry path, … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
Do you need to view the temp files on your system? At Start menu, run, simply type %temp% This will open Windows Explorer to this location: C:DOCUME~1USERNA~1LOCALS~1Temp, where USERNA is your Windows account name, in 8.3 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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, … [Continue reading]
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