Each user account in Windows is connected to a user profile that defines several important parameters like the types of applications that are available for that user, information about files and shortcuts on the desktop, visual settings like screen size, network and printer connections, wallpapers and data like the Internet cache.
From an administrator’s point [...]

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The so called Places Bar is a sidebar on the right side of Open and Save dialogs in Windows and Office that provide the user with a way to access specific folders faster. It shows My Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents, My Computer and My Network Places by default and there is no apparent way [...]

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Nwiz.exe is a component that gets installed when Nvidia video card drivers are installed on a system. It is automatically started with Windows which can be checked with the msconfig command. It is only beneficial on systems that use multiple monitors or tv out settings and can be easily disabled without causing ill or harm [...]

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Whenever I visit Chinese websites I stumble upon strange characters that do not resemble Chinese at all. When I visit the Chinese Google homepage for instance I see lots of blocks of hex code pairs but no Chinese characters at all. Since I’m probably not the only one with that problem I would like to [...]

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New folders are always opened in a new window on my system because I think it’s a comfortable way to work with folders and windows. I never liked the default way of opening a new folder in the same window. This spawns a lot of windows when I navigate to a folder like the Firefox [...]

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