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XP: Turn off Search Indexing

Contributed by winslow on October 10, 2003 under Windows

By default windows XP indexes and records information on all the files on your system in order to speed up searching speeds. If you don’t care about quick searches, this can be disabled to improved general speed.

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XP: Reinstall XP without Microsoft’s Product Activation

Contributed by winslow on under Windows installation

After reinstalling XP, often you will be asked to reactivate your software. The tip keeps the user from having to reactivate.

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Quickly Copy Text or Graphics in Word

Contributed by winslow on October 6, 2003 under Microsoft Word

This describes the quickest way to duplicate text or graphics within Word Documents.

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Save or Close all Word documents at once

Contributed by winslow on under Microsoft Word

Quick trick that allows a user to save or close multiple documents at once.

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Shortcut to change case of text within Word

Contributed by winslow on under Microsoft Word

Keystroke command to quick change the case of words with a Word document.

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Select Nonconsecutive Items in Word

Contributed by winslow on under Microsoft Word

Any version of Word > 2002 will allow the user to select nonconsecutive items and words.

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Google Zeitgeist

Contributed by winslow on under Google

Googling is becoming an art–both for the user and the webmaster. It’s very interesting to see what the leading and declining search terms are for all of google.

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