Win2K February 27th, 2002 @ 9:31 am PDT
On Windows themes
Notepad December 22nd, 2001 @ 2:38 am PDT
It really drives me nuts that you can’t delete Notepad.exe in Windows 2000. Oh, you can, but only if you really muck around with your files. Here is a tutorial on getting rid of the pesky application. Note that you must delete the notepad.ex_ file from your I386 directory before you try to delete the […]
Menu Help December 2nd, 2001 @ 1:56 pm PDT
Here’s a pretty cool trick from the January 1997 issue of PCComputing.Com: The Windows Start Menu has a built-in stutter, a brief delay in the appearance of the Programs, Documents, Settings, and Find fly-out menus that’s supposed to make Windows easier for mouse newbies. If you tend to think of any intentional PC delay as […]
More Hacks November 29th, 2001 @ 4:51 pm PDT
Reghacks – Tips, Tricks and Registry Hacks for Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP
Two Tricks November 28th, 2001 @ 11:26 pm PDT
Two great tips from annoyances.org: Restart Windows without Restarting your Computer Speed up system restart
Windows Registry November 13th, 2001 @ 9:51 am PDT
The Windows Registry Guide is full of registry tweaks, tricks, and hacks to optimize, enhance, and secure Microsoft Windows. This is really a wonderful site. There are dozens of mini-tutorials to make Windows do all sorts of nifty things. I really like this place.
Speed November 8th, 2001 @ 1:39 pm PDT
Here’s a workaround for one of Windows 9x’s annoyances. Sometimes when you make a change in a window — for example, when you create a new folder through an open application — you won’t see it until you refresh the window by pressing F5 or until you close and reopen that folder. To have Windows […]
Uninstall November 8th, 2001 @ 12:42 pm PDT
Are there applications in your Install / Uninstall list (in the Add/Remove Programs dialog box) that you’ve already deleted from your system? Or that, when you select them and click the Add / Remove button, give you a message that the uninstallation can’t proceed? Sure, you could leave them there and forget about them, but […]
Desktop Clutter November 8th, 2001 @ 12:27 pm PDT
If you want to show the door to the InBox, Recycle Bin, or Microsoft Network, here’s how: Run REGEDIT and drill down through the layers to find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ Desktop\ NameSpace Click the plus sign (+) next to NameSpace to reveal several numeric fields. Clicking on any one of these will […]
How to Add a Right-Click Blog This! Menu to IE June 12th, 2001 @ 3:36 pm PDT
I’ve written a little tutorial. If you’re in a group / community blog at blogger and can’t access the “Settings” page to give yourself the right-click “Blog This!” menu, here’s how.
