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Re-start explorer.exe when your taskbar and desktop icons are missing

October 17, 2010

Have you ever started your computer to find your taskbar missing along with all your desktop shortcut icons and your start menu? You can maybe see your desktop color but the icons are not there. Even your desktop seems to have lost its wallpaper. The computer seems to be running fine. Or maybe you start [...]

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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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Showing Super Hidden Files In Windows Vista

June 4, 2010

This is an advanced tutorial on how to show super hidden files in Windows Vista. If you just want to show normal hidden files so you can access a folder such as application data, then please see show hidden files in Windows. The following tutorial is not for the average computer user as it involves [...]

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

May 30, 2010

By Mitz Free computer Tips Video – How to create a shutdown, restart, or logoff shortcut on your desktop 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 [...]

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Restoring Explorer.exe – Lost Desktop in Windows XP

May 26, 2010

Free computer help by Mitz Sometimes everything disappears from your desktop (computer crashes) when an error occurs in a program you are using. This is actually Windows Explorer that has closed. You will notice that the desktop icons, the taskbar, and sometimes the start menu all disappear. Here are some tricks I use to restore [...]

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How to restart or shutdown a computer through a remote desktop connection

May 26, 2010

When you are connected to another computer by remote desktop, did you ever notice that the shutdown and restart options are not there. The computer that you remote desktop to must already be on. But if you regularly use remote desktop, at some stage you will want to restart the remote computer from where you [...]

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Computer restarts after loading the Windows Logo screen

May 26, 2010

By Mitz Free computer help Have you ever had this happen to you? You try to start your computer. Everything seems fine until it gets to the Windows logo screen and then restarts again. If you let it go it will possibly go on forever. From my experience with repairing computers I have found two [...]

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