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USB flash drives can be used for more than just a sneakernet

floppy disk sneakernet Do you remember the old days when we used floppies to transfer data from computer to computer? Now we are using USB flash drives for that purpose. Oh but that little memory stick you are carrying can be much more than that old fashioned sneakernet.
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Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – Windows XP’s 3D Flying Objects

How do you use photos in Windows XP’s 3D Flying Objects?

If you’re familiar with Windows XP’s My Pictures Slideshow screen saver to display photos of loved ones, here’s a twist that you might find interesting – you can use a photo for the texture in the 3D Flying Objects screen saver.

Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – WinTabber

How do you place your applications into a tabbed user interface with WinTabber?

If you’ve been using a tabbed browser, chances are that you can’t do without having a tabbed user interface. Keeping each site you visit on separate tabs during a heavy surfing session is an efficient use of screen real estate and provides a great experience. (Ever hear of Firefox?)

Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – XP Start Menu

How do you manage the most frequently used programs list on your XP Start Menu?

One of the many features of Windows XP’s Start Menu is the most frequently used programs list. When it comes to configuring this feature, Windows XP provides you with only two controls:

Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – Windows Explorer – Windows XP Drives

How do you configure Windows Explorer to display Windows XP disk drives?

When you double-click the My Computer icon in Windows XP, you see a list of all the drives on your hard disk.

Windows XP Disk Drives

Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – Sharing Windows XP Desktop Themes

How do you copy desktop themes to other Windows XP computers?

If you have created a favorite desktop theme and you work on more than one Windows XP computer, you may have considered recreating that theme on your other computers. Manually re-creating the desktop theme can be a boring, tricky and time-consuming operation. Here’s how you can easily copy your favorite desktop theme from one Windows XP computer to another.

Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – Microsoft Management Console

How do you install Microsoft Management Console 3.0 for Windows XP SP2?

The Microsoft Management Console (MMC) application provides you with an interface shell that you can insert various tools called snap-ins to create custom consoles. While custom consoles can come in handy for performing any number of tasks, Windows XP’s MMC 2.0 convoluted console-creation process can often seem to be counter intuitive.
Windows Management Console
Microsoft has made their new MMC interface developed for Windows Vista available for Windows XP. Version 3.0 of the MMC application provides more functionality for snap-ins than prior versions and sports a much better looking user interface that makes it much easier to create and use the consoles.

Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – Multiple XP Disk Drives

How do you retrieve information for multiple Windows XP disk drives?

You can obtain detailed information about the amount of available and used space on your Windows XP disk by right-clicking any drive icon in My Computer and selecting Properties. You get a fancy pie chart display that represents the disk information graphically, which makes it easy to quickly analyze your hard disk usage.

Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – Windows Explorer Image Thumbnails

How do you add image thumbnails to a folder in Windows Explorer?

When dealing with a folder in Microsoft Windows containing many images, it is often helpful to see a thumbnail representation of each of those images in the Windows Explorer display. One warning, turning on the thumbnail feature will increase the amount of resources being used by the operating system. Those darn little thumbnails take up space on the hard drive and in memory when they are being displayed. Depending on your system, the available resources, and the number of images involved, you can quickly slow down your PC to a crawl if you just do it willy-nilly.

Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – Windows Explorer Directory

How do you tweak Windows Explorer to open in the directory of your own choosing?

The default display for Windows XP Explorer is to show the My Documents folder with all of its subfolders expanded and ready to be selected.

Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – Flash Drive AutoPlay

How do you permanently set your flash drive’s default AutoPlay action?

If you have a USB flash drive that holds your various Microsoft Windows XP files, you may want to configure the drive to automatically open Windows Explorer rather than display the AutoPlay dialog box. (On Mac OS X the flash drive automatically or should I say magically appears on your desktop.)

Just select the Open Folder To View Files In Windows Explorer and then select the Always Do The Selected Action check box but that only configures the flash drive for one file type. To configure your flash drive to open Windows Explorer for all file types at the same time:

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