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Boot Your Windows or Linux computer from a USB Flash Drive

Gary Pool — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:10:05 +0000

Still using your USB flash drive for just a sneakernet? You can boot Windows or Linux from that little stick...

Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – Windows XP’s 3D Flying Objects

Gary Pool — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:51:02 +0000

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…

Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – WinTabber

Gary Pool — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:18:45 +0000

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…

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

Gary Pool — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:04:35 +0000

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…

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

Gary Pool — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:26:30 +0000

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.

However, when you launch Windows Explorer, it displays the…

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

Gary Pool — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:02:15 +0000

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…

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

Gary Pool — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:24:28 +0000

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…

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

Gary Pool — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:37:42 +0000

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…

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

Gary Pool — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:07:35 +0000

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,…

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

Gary Pool — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:09:21 +0000

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.

To get…

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

Gary Pool — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:32:08 +0000

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…