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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 9th, 2009
  • Comments: 18

How To Quickly Open Folders In Windows

Here is a quick tip on how to open specific system folders in the Microsoft operating systems Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. All you need to do is press [Windows R] and enter one command to open a specific folder. These so called shell commands will open various Windows folders but also applications [...]

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Categories: Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Windows Vista Taskbar Resize

Windows 7 changes the appearance of the taskbar quite drastically. One of the new visual changes to taskbar items is the height of each item. While it is possible to change the height of the Windows Vista taskbar it is not possible to change the height of individual items in the taskbar even after making [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 11th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Windows Vista Shrink Volume Problems

Windows Vista comes with its own partitioning software that can be used to partition the connected hard drives. It can be accessed by clicking on Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management. This opens a new window with the entry Disk Management under the storage entry in the left panel. The tool will display [...]

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Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 11th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Repair Defragment In Windows Vista

Defragment seems to make more problems in Windows Vista than it did in Windows XP. A recent test on a Toshiba notebook running Windows Vista Service Pack 1 revealed that a click on the defragment button would do nothing at all. This is apparently caused by third party disk defragmentation software programs that somehow hijack [...]

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Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 30th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Vista Services Optimizer

Vista Services Optimizer is a free Windows Vista software program for computers running the Microsoft operating system. It can be used to diagnose and tune the Services configuration of the system to eliminate problems and increase overall system performance. Services Diagnostics is probably the first option that should be run after installation and start of [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 26th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Microsoft Vista Answers

Microsoft Vista Answers is a beta web service that copies the functionality of Yahoo Answers and makes it available to the Windows Vista niche. Narrowing down the niche does not necessarily have to be a bad thing but it could surely disappoint Windows users who do not run Windows Vista but another Microsoft product.
The web [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 18th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Windows Vista SP2 Beta 2 Download

If you want to keep up with the latest beta releases of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 you might like the following. Our reader Kevin send us the new Registry keys that are needed to download the beta 2 release of the Windows Vista Service Pack 2. Yes, it is still a beta release and [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

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