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XP/Vista: Customize Windows Explorer with Additional Detail Rows

Contributed by ibe98765 on July 2, 2006 under Windows

Power users commonly wander through Windows folders and files, often just to see what is there. When they find something, then they need to determine what it is. This is a recipe for doing this task while looking at many files inside Windows Exploxer. Excellent screenshot walking through the process of adding additional detail rows to the view in explorer.

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Optimizing file and folder organization in Windows

Contributed by ibe98765 on June 18, 2006 under Windows

This tutorial describes one method for organizing your windows installation. Find your files, folders and applications easier. Also make backing up and reinstalls easier.

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Move your Documents And Settings USERNAME profile off of the C: drive

Contributed by ibe98765 on June 3, 2006 under Windows

Microsoft (and too many other amateurs) dump everything onto the C: drive. They aren’t cognizant of the advantages of using partitioning or logical drives.

What follows is a power user tip that allows you to relatively easily move ALL your personalized settings in C:\Documents and Settings to another partition. This is a damm sight easier than messing with TweakUI, X-Setup, etc.

I keep my settings on my D: drive. This way, if I have to wipe the C: drive to refresh Windows, I can easily get most of my settings and old files back instead of starting from ground zero. This has worked for me in Win2k and WinXP and has made systems refreshes a lot easier over the years.

Note that you’re really just changing one registry sub-key here. The rest is just to logoff the user account, copy the settings to the new location and then logon to the user account.

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