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Windows 7: What To Do When Custom Recycle Bin Icons Don’t Refresh When Full or Empty

Contributed by shamanstears on October 12, 2009 under Microsoft Windows 7

If you’ve customized your system by using different icons for the Recycle Bin so it has a more stylish look when Full and Empty, you may run into a problem with the icons behaving in the desired fashion. Sometimes they stay stuck so that a Full Recycle Bin looks empty and vice versa, and the only way to update the icon is to refresh your Desktop. Here’s how to get your icons to behave like they are supposed to.

Windows 7: How Increase the Speed of Internet Explorer 8

Contributed by shamanstears on October 5, 2009 under Microsoft Windows 7

By simply re-registering a dll file, you can make Microsoft’s latest web browser even faster. It might sound complicated, but it is a very simple process.

Windows 7/XP/Vista: How to Block Unwanted Sites Without Additional Software

Contributed by shamanstears on October 4, 2009 under Windows

If you want to keep your youngsters from accessing certain sites, you want to block certain cites due to their content, or if you want to play a mean joke on a co-worker, you can block sites by redirecting them to the computer’s IP address that is used for a loopback network connection.

Optimize Windows 7 for use with Touchscreen enabled devices

Contributed by seamonkey420 on September 20, 2009 under Microsoft Windows 7

Lately, there has been a sudden resurgence back into touchscreen technology and adding of touchscreens to laptops and other devices. Windows 7 is setup to handle touchscreen input pretty good out of the box, however trying to use the scrollbars and start menu can prove to be a challenge on netbooks with a touchscreen or smaller devices. This recipe will show you how to use an existing Vista utility, Microsoft Origami Experience 2.0 (free) to optimize the GUI to allow easier navigation using touchscreen inputs. This barely known but very useful add-on also will give us the Origami add-on and also picture password as an added bonus. :)

Windows 7: Improve Startup Performance by Using Boot-Only Fetching

Contributed by shamanstears on September 14, 2009 under Microsoft Windows 7

If you run a lot of programs at startup, it can take a while for your system to boot up. To speed up the process, you can enable Boot-Only fetching so that the prefetcher focuses on the booting process instead of both booting and application launching.

Outlook 2010: How To Create a Signature for Each Account

Contributed by shamanstears on September 1, 2009 under Microsoft Outlook

In Outlook 2010, you can create signatures and assign a different one to each of your Outlook accounts. You can also create multiple signatures for different uses, such as business e-mail, personal e-mail, etc.

Outlook 2010: How to Create a New Outlook Data File (PST)

Contributed by shamanstears on August 30, 2009 under Microsoft Outlook

If you wish to create a personal folder for storing Outlook items on your computer, you need to find where Microsoft has hidden the option in the new version of Outlook.Here are the steps to take to create a new Outlook data file quickly and easily.

Outlook 2010: Prevent Other Outlook Recipients from Forwarding, Printing, or Copying Content from Your Message

Contributed by shamanstears on August 24, 2009 under Microsoft Outlook

If you are sending out an email message to a contact and prefer that it isn’t forwarded to someone else, printed, or any of the content copied, Outlook 2010 allows you to do this by following these steps.

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