Tag Archives: Tricks
Unlike Windows Vista, Windows 7 no longer supports modifying the registry, to allow display of the special Internet Explorer 8 icon on the Windows 7 desktop.
If whenever you try to install a Microsoft Application or a new program you get the following error messages and you are unable to proceed with the installation:
Windows 7 can let you set different display language settings for different user accounts. When you choose regional and language settings for your computer, such as your default input language …more >>>
Windows 7 and Vista for that matter, does not activate the Briefcase feature by default. The Briefcase was a utility to let users sync files between two computers. But it …more >>>
The Universal Focus Rectangle in Windows lets you know where you were before you current click. It is as such, quite useful at times. But if you would like to …more >>>
If when you press Ctrl+F together, with a view to doing an in-line search in Internet Explorer 8, the Find Bar does not appear, here is what you can try.
Learning Snacks are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning experts. Each Snack is delivered by using Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations …more >>>
Right click on any folder or file and Windows offers you various options on what you can do from its context menu.
How often has it happened that you have inadvertently hit the Caps Lock key and continued to type … ???
To protect your search privacy, you may wish to Turn off display of recent searches. These are the same entries which appear in the drop-down, when you search through the …more >>>
In Windows 7, you can create, use, attach & manipulate Virtual Hard Disk Files (VHD’s) as though they are real disks. This allows Virtual PC users to be able to …more >>>
In Windows Vista, you had the ability to Run a program as an Administrator.
By default, Explorer opens all folders within the same process. However should you wish to open a particular folder in a different process you can do so easily.
While you can always access your emails, email id’s, etc from the Windows Live Mail, you may want to know the location of the folder where they are stored.
Most browser have the Stop and Refresh Buttons on the left side of the address bar as a result of which some just cant get used to Internet Explorer 8 …more >>>
If you try to loging multiple accounts of a particular website with two different identities, you may not be successful. This is because, IE8 by default, shares the same “session …more >>>
Here are a few tips on how to find, save & backup Favorites or Bookmarks in Internet Explorer 9. To save a website as Favorite, simply click on the Star …more >>>
