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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 – Enable and Disable The Quick Launch Toolbar in the Windows Taskbar

June 6, 2010

The Quick Launch Toolbar in Windows XP is considered to be one of the handiest features included. It enables you to click on your favorite links anytime, even when you have other applications open. You do not need to get to the desktop to open another program. All your links are there for you to [...]

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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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How to add a show desktop icon to the Quick Launch toolbar in the taskbar

June 1, 2010

This is a handy little trick that I recommend for every computer user out there when you need to create a shortcut to desktop icon. Clicking on the show desktop icon will minimize every window that is open to show your desktop. How great is that? But when the desktop shortcut is missing it can [...]

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How to customize the taskbar and start menu

June 1, 2010

Your taskbar and the the start menu are one of the most important features in Windows. Both the taskbar and start menu give you easy access to installed programs on your computer. In this article I will show you how to customize your taskbar and start menu settings. There are so many options for customizing [...]

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Enable and disable the Quick Launch Toolbar in the Windows taskbar

June 1, 2010

The Quick Launch Toolbar in Windows XP is considered to be one of the handiest features included. It enables you to click on your favorite links anytime, even when you have other applications open. You do not need to get to the desktop to open another program. Maybe you have a show desktop icon in [...]

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Windows 7- Add Additional Clocks to the Taskbar

May 31, 2010

In case you have co-workers, family or friends who actually live in some other time zones, you may require getting information about their local times prior communicating with them. This way you do not end up disturbing them. You can make additions of up to 2 clocks to the taskbar of Windows 7 other than [...]

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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 – Setup Parental Controls

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Windows seven has made it even easier to keep track of what your children do on the computer when you are not watching them by enhancing the parental controls feature. It is so easy to setup that a two year child could do it. (Well some could) Setting up parental controls is very important now [...]

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Windows Seven tips – Jump to the taskbar using keyboard shortcuts

May 31, 2010

In the new Windows Seven the taskbar is one of the features that has changed considerably. The Windows taskbar is extremely easy to use and you can focus your attention to it at any time by pressing the Win Key and the letter T on the key board. By pressing this keyboard combination of the [...]

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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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