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 – 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.

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.