Archive for June, 2010
Easily moving the My Documents folder in Windows 7
Windows users are familiar with the special folders My Documents, My Music, etc – they are stored on the drive Windows is installed on and are the default locations for most most media content and other assorted files pertaining to the current user profile. The general idea behind these folders is to assist users in [...]
Erasing the Aero Taskbar thumbnail display delay
When Microsoft unveiled the Aero engine in Vista – and later expanded upon for 7 – it brought about a sea of usability and visual changes. While some changes were more just for eye candy, and perhaps trying to match what Apple was doing in OS X, others were more functionally based. Taskbar thumbnail previews [...]
Editing and correcting Outlook’s auto-complete address entries
Microsoft Outlook, like many other email software, contains many niceties that help increase efficiency when using the application. Users of Outlook have likely noticed it’s ability to auto-complete email addresses as the user begins typing in the To field of an email composition. Outlook, over time, assembles a list of addresses you have sent mail [...]
Permanently postpone “restart your computer to finish installing .. updates” nag
We’ve all seen the famous Windows nag dialog or pop-up that urges us to restart our computer to apply or otherwise finish installing security updates and patches pushed out by Microsoft via their WindowsUpdate framework. Typically, the updates are published on the second Tuesday of every month and by default, your Windows PC will install [...]
Encrypting your web connections automatically when possible
Recently, the Electronic Frontier Foundation in collaboration with the Tor anonymous routing project released a public beta of their security and privacy conscious Firefox extension. Inspired by Google’s latest SSL encrypted search option, HTTPS Everywhere extends that concept to other websites. Visiting a website known to the extension will automatically switch your browsing session over [...]
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