If you use Firefox’s Find (Ctrl+F) to find a term or name on a web page, you might try using case sensitive searches to make things easier. This is disabled by default but can easily be changed by taking the following steps.
If you are running Media Center in full screen mode, the Print Screen key’s output will only be a black screen. To enable print screen functionality while in the Full Screen Mode in Media Center, follow these steps.
When you place your mouse cursor over the taskbar button of a running application, a small thumbnail of the application will appear. By placing your cursor over this thumbnail, you will see a live preview of the running application and all other applications that are running will become transparent. If you find this feature to be annoying, you can disable it by following these steps.
By default, Ctrl+Tab will switch between open tabs in Firefox. But if you are running Windows 7, you should enable Visual Previews for a sexier way of navigating your open tabs.
If you are running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 (or Vista), you will find that your PDF files do not preview in Windows Explorer as they do in the 32-bit versions. Instead, all you see is a message stating that This file can’t be previewed. To enable this functionality on your 64-bit operating system, follow these steps.
When you place your mouse cursor over the taskbar button of a running application, a small thumbnail of the application will appear. By placing your cursor over this thumbnail, you will see a live preview of the running application and all other applications that are running will become transparent. You can change the delay time for these live previews to better meet your liking by following these steps.
By placing your cursor over the Show Desktop button (the small rectangle) at the end of the Taskbar, Aero Peek will show the Desktop. It does this by hiding any open windows and showing the outline of where they were. You can change the delay time for Aero Peek to better meet your liking by following these steps.
Microsoft’s latest operating system is a bit different than Windows versions of the past, and with these differences come more things to customize and tweak. Here’s a compilation of tutorials put together by the Tech-Recipes authors for customizing the interface and for tweaking the system to make it quicker.
If you are bored with your desktop and want to give it a little style, or if you just want to impress your friends, you can run a screen saver as your desktop’s background to liven it up.
If you would like to be able to burn a single disc, multiple times, OS X allows you to do this without having to buy rewritable CDs or DVDs. This allow you to maximize disc space usage as you can use the disc multiple times to burn smaller folders and files.
If you need to work as administrator on your system without having to deal with the UAC, you can enable the built-in administrator account. This account is disabled by default, but can be enabled by following these instructions.
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.
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