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Windows Tips: Screen Smarts Give You an Unobstructed View Recapture screen space lost to toolbars, icons, and other on-screen elements... |
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December 2003
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Windows Tips: Throwback -- Give XP That Old-Time Windows Look Plus: Reopen folders automatically; restore lost desktop icons; and print faster, conserve paper. |
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September 7, 2004
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June 1, 2008
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April 2004
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Work Smart From the Start in Windows Get faster access to your favorite shortcuts, and give the rest the boot. |
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October 4, 2011
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Microsoft Explains Why the Start Menu Needed to Die On Tuesday, Microsoft explained why the Windows 7 start menu is now a start screen in Windows 8: no one used it. |
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October 1, 2003
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Personalize Office's Places Bar When I save a document in Word, a dialog box appears that lets me navigate to the folder where I want to save the file. Is there a way to add a folder to this list? |
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Some Items Cannot Be Shown Get rid of the error message indicating that there is not enough room to show all the items added to the Start menu. |
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January 2006
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Break Through Windows' Workspace Limitations Tips to gain usable space in Windows and in applications. |
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January 20, 2004
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Custom URL Shortcut Icons Lost I put shortcuts to some of my favorite Web pages in the Quick Launch area of the taskbar, but all icons have reverted to plain IE icons. How can this be avoided? |
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July 26, 2006
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Windows Tips: Move Quickly Between Your Open Windows Manage the proliferation of open application windows on your desktop. |
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Windows Tips: Six Windows Tweaks I Couldn't Live Without Make personal sticky notes, launch apps fast, create Search shortcuts, put folders on the Start menu... |
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April 4, 2007 |
Can I Unstick Items in the Start Menu? Recreating the programs pinned to the Windows start menu. |
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December 9, 2003 |
Shrink the Programs Menu How to solve the problems of too many programs to display in Windows XP's Start Menu |
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April 29, 2002
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Customize Your Windows Desktop Want Windows your way? Follow our tips and whip your desktop into shape. |
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January 23, 2007
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Make Windows XP Act Like Vista In less than an hour, these freebies can transform XP a pseudo Vista. |
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February 5, 2008
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Those Aren't My Favorites Vista's version of Windows Explorer has a few key navigational changes from Windows XP. |
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April 6, 2005
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Tile Selected Windows Using the taskbar to tile a subset of your open Windows XP programs. |
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September 25, 2007
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Restore the Run Command to Vista's Start Menu Here's a quick fix for the omission of this important option from the default Start menu in Vista. |
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April 4, 2007 |
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September 2002
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Answer Line: What Apps Should I Use to Open Mystery Files? Programs for opening mystery files... customizing the Places Bar in IE 6's Save As dialog box... etc. |
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September 13, 2006 |
Side-by-Side Instances of Windows Explorer Tiling Windows explorer for easier viewing. |
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July 13, 2004 |
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April 2002
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April 5, 2010
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10 Tips That Make Windows 7 Simpler Microsoft put a lot of work into making Windows 7 as user-friendly as possible, but there's always room for improvement. Find out how to simplify your Windows 7 experience with these ten tips. |
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April 2004
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Seven Ways to Make Living With Windows Easier Get your operating system to look and work the way you prefer. |
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June 23, 2008
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Vista Icons Lose Their Filenames Only seeing icons with no filenames in Vista? You can restore the settings easily to get them back. |
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November 2001
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Windows Tips: Have You Clicked Your Links Toolbar Today? Get the most out of the Links toolbar, see full title paths in folder title bars, start up the way you want... |
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February 1, 2008
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Keep Vista from Adding "Shortcut" to Shortcuts Here's how to get Vista to name things the way you want, instead of the way it defaults. |
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September 25, 2006
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Windows Tips: Vanquish Still More Windows Annoyances These eight tricks should improve your Windows experience. |
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August 2, 2006 |
Eliminate "Recent Documents" Evidence Disable Window's XP history of your recent documents. |
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July 2002
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Windows Tips: Show Windows' Control Panel Who's in Charge Add, remove, or alter Control Panel shortcuts, or get a new view with a freeware program. Plus, hide a shared drive... |
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April 4, 2007 |
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October 2005
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Clean Up a Taskbar Littered With Buttons Tame Taskbar Turmoil... IE Save Problems... Bypass XP's Pesky Log-In... Clean Up a Taskbar Littered With Buttons... |
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February 27, 2007
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Windows Tips for Everyone Whether you've jumped to Vista or are sticking with XP, our tips will make your computing faster and safer and even a little more stylish. |
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October 2004
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Keep It Simple Cut the clutter on your PC and you can stop aggravations before they begin. Our 50 tips show you how to simplify Windows and your system from startup to shutdown. |
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March 16, 2005
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Keeping a Clean Desktop I like having next to nothing on my desktop, usually just My Computer, My Network Places and Control Panel, though occasionally I'll add a folder for stuff I'm currently working on. |
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April 16, 2009
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A Quick Fix for Vista Problems Does Windows Vista seem sluggish to you? The slowdown could be caused by any number of things, but there's an easy way to cross a few off your list |
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May 16, 2007
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Vista Tip: Default Programs One of Vista's most attractive new features makes uncovering important settings easier than it was in XP. |
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October 2004
Scott Dunn |
Toggle Your Screen Saver With a Single Click Create shortcuts to get your screen saver out of the way prior to defragging... Speed up Start menus... Take advantage of scrollbar tricks... |
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January 31, 2007
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Search to Start If you've become used to surfing your Program Menu to get to applications, you'll be in for a shock when you first use Microsoft Windows Vista. |
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December 21, 2005
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Exploring Word Toolbars Customize your Word environment with these handy toolbar options. |
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March 2006
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The Fastest Way to Open Items on Your Desktop Put your desktop on the menu... Access icons via the keyboard... Add info to your applications' title bars... |
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April 24, 2001
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What's on the Menu? You Decide Customize menus and accelerator keys... force Windows to exit or reboot... |
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October 15, 2008
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Make Vista Great, Part 2: Fill in the Missing Pieces You might expect a new operating system to improve on or excise older elements that are no longer necessary or just plain don't work. So why is Vista missing things that users, well, miss? |
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Angela Chang |
Tidy Up Your Places in Four Steps The four best ways to maximize your Microsoft Office shortcuts. |
