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Video – How to create a shutdown, restart, or logoff shortcut on your desktop

June 6, 2010

You will be amazed at how much faster you can shutdown your computer by using this trick. Instead of going to the start menu, choosing shutdown, then waiting for the computer to shut all the programs down, you can create a shortcut on the desktop to do it quickly. You can create a shutdown, restart, [...]

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Video – How to change a shortcut icon on your desktop

June 6, 2010

I guess you are asking why you would want to change a shortcut icon on your desktop? Some programs have really ugly icons that you are forced to look at everyday on your desktop. i know this is going a bit overboard but some people are like that. Maybe two programs have similar icons, which [...]

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How to make shortcut to a internet webpage on your Windows desktop or taskbar

June 5, 2010

It is also handy to put a shortcut to your absolute favourite webpage in the Quick launch toolbar. You need to make a shortcut on the desktop and then drag it to the Quick launch. How to create a link on the desktop to a webpage (Internet Explorer 5,6) Instead of opening Internet Explorer, going [...]

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Resizing Your Windows Vista Desktop Icons

June 4, 2010

Windows Vista Tips You can resize your Desktop Icons in Windows Vista very easily. Right Click on the Desktop Click View Select Large Icons, Medium Icons, or Classic Icons You can also manually adjust the size of the icons on your desktop. This isn’t hard but it does take a bit of coordination: Left Click [...]

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How to create a desktop shortcut

June 1, 2010

You can create a desktop shortcut to anything you like if you know how. You just need to know what file opens what program and luckily most programs that you have installed on your computer have an executable file to open them. They would look something like this: “NameOfProgram.exe”. You can find a programs .exe [...]

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How to change your Windows XP desktop background/wallpaper when all options are disabled

June 1, 2010

It is extremely frustrating when you right click on your Window XP desktop to get to the display properties and you cannot change your desktop background. This problem is very common and is most likely caused by a virus or some type of spyware that has altered your registry settings. When you try to modify [...]

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How to change your desktop background picture

June 1, 2010

Changing your desktop background is very easy. All you have to do is right click on your desktop and choose  properties from the drop down menu. Here is a video to show how to change your desktop background and where to find the pictures to use.

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Display Properties in Windows XP

June 1, 2010

Watch this video to see how to change your desktop background, change your screensaver, change your screen resolution, and more.. To get to the display properties in Windows XP, simply right click your mouse on the empty space on your desktop. A menu will appear and you should choose properties.  

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Add items or links to open a programs in the desktop right click menu

June 1, 2010

When you right click on your blank desktop a menu appears. This is the desktop right click menu. This menu usually contains default links such as personalize or properties, view, new, and more. This tutorial will show you how to add items to your right click menu. You can basically link to anything as long [...]

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Windows Seven Tips – Win 7 Desktop and Taskbar basic tricks

May 31, 2010

Desktop and Taskbar tricks Windows Seven is fantastic and is the latest operating system to be released by Microsoft. Although it has similar features to both Windows XP and Windows Vista, to use Windows seven, some people will need re-educating. Basically there are new features included with Windows seven that no one has seen before. [...]

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Windows Seven Tips – Change your folder list view

May 31, 2010

Windows seven has a similar feature to the earlier versions of Windows for changing the way you view your files and folders. however it may have a few extra options and also the settings will be in a different area. This video tutorial will show you how to change the folder view in Windows Seven. [...]

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