Change Windows Explorer to open My Computer instead of Libraries Folder in Windows 7
When the windows explorer is clicked the libraries folder opens by default, this tutorial shows you how to change it to open My Computer.
1. Click the start button and type explorer
2. In the search results right click Windows Explorer and click properties.
Exceed the 9 Speed Dial slots in Opera
Ok so this neat trick will enable you to exceed the 9 slot limit for Speed Dial that Opera usually has to whatever you want.
That being said, I will now explain how you can further expand those 9 slots to whatever you want. And here are the steps.
Remove Ads in Windows Live Messenger Without Patches – Method 2
There are 2 methods so far which allow to remove ads without patching in windows live messenger. We talked about the first method, which lets you stop ads loading by setting IE security settings to High.
Now for the Method 2
This a short and quick how-to on removing those bothersome ads at the bottom of Live Messenger main window. Lets get started..
[vista Sp1 Registry Trick] Add “search” In Start Menu
Microsoft has been released Vista sP1 to RTM since 4 Feb 2008 and available to MSDN/Technet or Microsoft Connect users and will be available publically soon.
In Vista SP1, lots of bugs’re fixed. But a thing that annoying me, they have removed centerlized “Search” from Start menu.
So here is the registry trick that enable centerlized “Search” in start menu by replacing “Run…” and via (My) Computer context menu.
Download this reg code, Double click and patch it.
Extract Part of a Movie From .RAR Set
Well this guide will show you how to extract a sample of a movie from just 1 .rar set so that way you can determine the quality of the movie and then decide if you really are gonna download the whole thing or just delete it….. with that being said let’s begin.
Download Firefox in Windows Vista without Touching IE7
1) Type cmd in the Search box under the Start menu n right click the selected result and select Run as administrator.
2) Now type following command in Command Prompt
ftp ftp.osuosl.org
You will be asked for your user name, and just type anonymous, and specify a password. Simply pressing Enter will deal with the password request, and you have logged in successfully.
3) Now, type
cd /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.12/win32/en-US/
and press Enter.
4) Then type mget *.exe to access Firefox Setup 2.0.0.12.exe. After the download will be completed, type “Firefox Setup 2.0.0.12.exe” with the quotes to install the browser.
5) If you want Firefox 3 type
cd /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0b4/win32/en-US/
6) Then type mget *.exe to access Firefox Setup 3.0 Beta 4.exe. After the download will be completed, type “Firefox Setup 3.0 Beta 4.exe” with the quotes to install the browser.
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Add Copy To entry to right-click menu
In windows when you right-click, there is an option called Send-to. Which is not that useful but most people use it. It has only the options to send to a zipfile, My Documents, Desktop and several generic places like the My Briefcase…. Unfortunately most users find this quite useless.
Therefore most users want to copy files to locations they want with right-click. This is disabled by Microsoft by default, and I have no idea why, but here is how to enable it and make life more easier.
For this you need to add a registry key. Its simple as that.
Enable Transfer of MP3 files through Microsoft Windows Live Messenger
As you all know windows live messenger is the most popular and the most feature rich messenger in the whole planet. Thus WLM has become the most used mesenger.
Out of the many features included in the messenger one security feature is the protection from receiving files with unsafe extensions.
Therefore, whenever you try to send or receive a file that has the file extension from the following list, Messenger assumes is potentially unsafe file and thus banned.
By default, Messenger blocks files that have the following file extensions:
.ade .adp .app .asp .bas .bat .cer .chm .cmd .com .cpl .crt .csh .exe .fxp .hlp
.hta .inf .ins .isp .its .js .jse .ksh .lnk .mad .maf .mag .mam .maq .mar .mas
.mau .mav .maw .mda .mdb .mde .mdt .mdw .mdz .msc .msi .msp .mst .ops
.pcd .pif .pl .prf .prg .pst .reg .scf .scr .sct .shb .shs .tmp .url .vbs .vsd .vb
.vsmacros .vss .vst .vsw .ws .wsc .wsf .wsh .mat .vbe
recently I found out that WLM also blocks the transfer of .MP3, this is bit annoying in the same time bit frustrating. We all know what MP3s are, and they are not harmful in anyway, and finding that Messenger blocks such files whereas it does NOT block other audio extensions is pretty annoying.
Open Hotmail with Firefox from Windows Live Messenger
One of the biggest problems with Live messenger is it automatically assumes that you like Internet Explorer to view hotmail or any other live mail accounts. This is so wrong because most of us use FireFox as our default browsers. So it’s a bit annoying when clicking on the email button in messenger directly opens IE and starts loading hotmail.
So here is a nice utility which allows you to customize in which browser you want to open your hotmail page
even if you set firefox as the default browser, only the links get open. The email button always opens IE to load your hotmail. This is ok if you use IE7 with IE7 pro , and a disaster if you are still using IE6 in older OS, or if you prefer opening hotmail in FireFox.
Disable or Enable Folder Options in Vista
With these methods given below you can enable(its enabled by default) or disable the folder options in vista. Mainly there are two ways to do this. Either you could use the Group Policy Editor or a bit of editing in the registry(which is not that easy for users).Here I shall show you both these methods so you can decide which way is easier for you.
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