Rearrange Taskbar Icons

Rearrange Taskbar Icons It's easy to rearrange the icons across the bottom of the screen -- simply drag an icon to where you want it to live. You can also add icons to the taskbar by dragging them from an application, and delete the icons by highlighting them and pressing the Delete key....

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Set a New Windows Explorer Launch Folder

Set a New Windows Explorer Launch Folder When you run Windows Explorer, it always opens to the Libraries folder. That's fine if you use Microsoft's default file organization, which designates Libraries as the overall container for your folders. But what if you don't? You might...

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Windows Explorer tips

Windows Explorer tips Windows Explorer is the heart and soul of the Windows interface, and overall it works quite well. But you can make it better....

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Add a Videos Link to the Start Menu

Add a Videos Link to the Start Menu The Windows 7 Start Menu includes links to your Pictures and Music folders, but not to your Videos folder. If you watch a lot of videos and want a link to them on your Start Menu, here's what you can do:   1. Right-click the Start button...

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Customize the Shut Down Button

Customize the Shut Down Button The default action of the Start Menu's Shut down button is to turn off your PC. If you want to use the button for another action, such as restarting your PC, you click the arrow to the right of the Shut down button and select an action from the drop-down menu. What if you rarely shut your PC down completely but frequently restart it? You can change...

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Start Menu tips

Start Menu tips Many people overlook the Start Menu, rarely using it except as a jumping off point to run an application or get to the Control Panel. But there's actually plenty you can do with it....

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Get a Power Efficiency Report

Get a Power Efficiency Report Have a laptop and want to get more battery life out of it? Windows 7 includes a hidden built-in tool that will examine your laptop's energy use and make recommendations on how to improve it. To use it: 1. Run a command prompt as an administrator. To do this, type cmd in the search box, and when the cmd icon appears, right-click it and...

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Shake Your Desktop Free of Clutter

Shake Your Desktop Free of Clutter If you frequently run multiple programs simultaneously, your desktop can get extremely cluttered. This can get annoying if you're working on one program and want to minimize all the other windows -- in previous versions of Windows you had to minimize them individually. With Windows 7's "shake" feature, though, you can minimize every window...

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Use Hidden International Wallpapers and Themes

 Use Hidden International Wallpapers and Themes When you first install Windows 7, it asks for your language, time and currency. Based on your responses, it installs a set of wallpapers and themes. If you choose English (United States) for your time and currency format, for...

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Picturing Your Photos on the iPod

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