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Load Menus Faster in Windows Vista [How To]

Posted by Rich On March - 9 - 2009

Load Menus Faster in Vista

By default, Windows Vista has a 400 ms delay when opening menus; you can shorten this time to 200 ms without degrading performance. Learn how in this guide.

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Use Task Manager as a Desktop Widget [How To]

Posted by Rich On March - 3 - 2009

Task Manager WidgetI was playing with task manager, when I came across this simple trick, which lets you display any item from task manager as a ‘desktop widget’; learn how to make your task manager into a widget in this guide.

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Customize Folder Icons in Vista Explorer [How To]

Posted by Rich On February - 27 - 2009

Customize Folder Icons in Vista Explorer

I use some folders as a dashboard to get to commonly used folders. A good example of this is my ‘Media’ partition. Here, I have my Music, Video, Pictures, and other folders. In this guide, you’ll learn how to customize your folder icons to achieve something similar to Figure 1.

Customize Folder Icons in Vista Explorer
Figure 1 – Customized Folder Icons

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Select Multiple Files with Checkboxes in Vista Explorer

Posted by Rich On February - 26 - 2009

Select Multiple Files with Checkboxes in Vista Explorer

When you want to select multiple files, you need to hold the CTRL key; if you let go of it before selecting another file, you lose your entire selection. Windows Vista’s solution to this problem is allowing you to select check boxes next to files, so you do not have to hold the CTRL key. Learn how to enable this setting, by default, in this guide.

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Set Shortcuts to Commonly Used Folders in Vista Explorer

Posted by Rich On February - 25 - 2009

Set Shortcuts to Commonly Used Folders in Vista Explorer

Windows Explorer has a great feature in Vista: the shortcut menu. This shortcut menu is customizable and can save you a lot of time if you frequently open and close files from specific locations. Learn, in this guide, how to modify this menu.

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Set Default View for All Folders in Vista Explorer [How To]

Posted by Rich On February - 24 - 2009

Setting Views for all Folders

Windows Vista does a pretty good job at analyzing the content of a folder to determine how it should display the files. 98% of the time I just want to see the details of the files and I don’t care for thumbnails, tags, ratings etc. If you are like me and want to simplify Windows Explorer’s view, this guide is for you.

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