Bringing Back “Search…” Menu Item After Vista SP1

Because of fears on appearing anti-competitive Microsoft chose to introduce a few visual access points to Vista’s built in search in Service Pack 1. Companies such as Google felt that Microsoft’s built in search was too prominently pushed on the unaware users, who would want to use applications like Google Desktop for their local search. [...]

Remove “Send To” from Vista Right-Click Menu

Do you use the Send To folder option? It’s on the menu pop-up when you right click on a folder or file in Windows Explorer. Traditionally, it provides a quick way to:

Email a file
Burn the file to a CD
Compress the file
Copy the file to a floppy

I don’t use it and I’d be willing to bet [...]

“Open Command Window Here” Everywhere and Always in Vista

I’ve showed you before that holding Shift and right-clicking on your desktop or a folder reveals the Open Command Window Here menu item. But what if you always want that option available? You could glue your shift key down - but that might have other side effects. No, this is actually possible and it involves [...]

Create Shortcuts to Bypass UAC in Vista

User Account Control. UAC, that lovely feature in Vista that is designed to protect us from ourselves. Sarcasm aside, I do admire what UAC is trying to accomplish even though the general perception of the feature is quite negative - as everyone likes to ignore that OS X and Linux have the exact same procedure. [...]

Rearrange Those Taskbar Buttons

As those that know me can attest, I’m pretty particular on how go about everything in my life. Things need to be just so or it really gets to me. I realize I have to learn to let things go, but 30 years in, I’ve yet to improve statistically on it. Such is the burden [...]