Here’s a tip for the Windows 7 users out there with Office 2010. Hopefully, you will be familiar with the concept of pinning applications to the redeveloped taskbar in Windows 7 so you can launch them straight away without having to go through the Start Menu. What you might not have realised is that you can also …
Category: Operating Systems
Jan 25 2012
Windows Phone – Disappearing Keyboard Fix Now Available
For the Windows Phone users out there just a heads up that a new update is on its way to your devices to correct the disappearing keyboard problem (where the on-screen keyboard vanishes either in the middle of typing or fails to appear at all when selecting a text field after upgrading to Mango). I’ve only …
Jan 21 2012
Search the Contents of Files Under Windows 7
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows 7
Not too long ago I wrote about how to use the search capability in Windows 7 to find files with certain text in the filename. Today, I’m going to show you how to restrict your searches to just the contents of the file exclusive of matching filenames. Again, it’s not difficult to execute and all …
Jan 16 2012
MiniBin – A Cleaner Recycle Bin Solution for Your Windows 7 Taskbar
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Here’s a quick tip for this evening. A while back I wrote about a way you could get the Recycle Bin in Windows to appear on the Taskbar but it was quite a hacky and inelegant solution. Well, there’s a great little application called MiniBin available here that will add the recycle bin to the system …
Jan 12 2012
Refining File Searching Under Windows 7
As more of us start using Windows 7 you’ll need to get to grips with the various features built into it. One of the prominent features carried forward from Windows Vista is search. Now, you’d think that you could find stuff by clicking in the box and typing the words of the file you are …
Jan 05 2012
Open Multiple Regedit Windows
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. If you are editing the registry sometimes you might like two registry editors open at the same time so you can compare the existing state with the updated state. However, attempting to do so will only allow you ever to open registry editor. The way around this is to …
Jan 01 2012
Why You Should Only Install Applications in the Program Files Folder
- By Boydo in Technology, Windows 7, Windows 95, Windows Vista
Most Windows software these days follows the convention introduced back in Windows 95 to install applications into the “Program Files” or “Program Files (x86)” folder on your computer (usually located in C:\). With more recent versions of Windows such as Windows Vista and Windows 7 this has become quite important as the “Program Files” folders …
Dec 28 2011
Undock and Split the iPad Soft Keyboard
- By Boydo in Apple, iOS, iPad, Operating Systems, Technology
As veratile as the iPad can be it can often be a right pain trying to type on it particularly when holding it in both hands when it is in landscape mode as the centre keys are often too far away from each thumb. It can also be a problem using the keyboard when in …
Dec 26 2011
Why Won’t Windows Automatically Sleep?
- By Boydo in Connectivity, Ethernet, Fixed, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista
Recently, I reinstalled Windows 7 from scratch after putting a brand new OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 solid state drive in my desktop computer but since then my computer hasn’t been going to sleep automatically after its nightly backup. After a bit of research, I found that I needed to use the powercfg tool to see what …
Dec 25 2011
Open an Administrative Command Prompt in Windows Vista and Windows 7
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Technology, Windows 7, Windows Vista
I have mentioned this before in a prior article but I thought I’d create its own entry as I am sure I will be referring to it in the future. Under Windows Vista and Windows 7, any command prompt you open will not have elevated rights if you are running under a standard account. This is to …
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