If your video card is having a hard time with the Aero interface and you’d like to continue to enjoy Aero’s features (such as Flip 3D and the taskbar thumbnails) follow these instructions to speed up Aero…
The default settings for allocating space for deleted files that go to the Recycle Bin may be set to high (especially if you use large capacity drives). You can customize the space set aside on each drive or turn the feature off for any or all drives. To change the amount of space allocated, follow these steps.
Sometimes the Recycle Bin can become corrupted and prevent you from deleting files from it (or emptying it). By following a few simple steps, you can give full functionality to your Recycle Bin.
By default, Google Voice will both email you and send a text message to your mobile phone to alert you about new voicemail messages. If your current cellular plan isn’t SMS friendly, meaning they charge you for each one, you can disable this functionality to avoid unnecessary costs.
By default, Firefox’s location bar suggests existing bookmarks and previous browsing history. If you find this to be more than you want to deal with, you can disable the suggesting of bookmarks, browsing history, or both.
If you forward or reply to lots of messages, then this can be a real timesaver. By changing the configuration of Outlook, you can make it automatically close the original message after you have forwarded or replied to it.
Microsoft’s Bing search engine makes it easy to track packages. If you have Bing as your homepage, then you have no need to go elsewhere for the information.
Google Images makes it easy to find images that can be reused. This is helpful if you are searching for images that are under GNU Free Documentation license, Creative Commons, or in the public domain
This recipe is for those of us that work in an enterprise/corporate setup and support iPhones. If you support iPhones via Exchange, you most likely will at some point have to activate an iPhone or two.
If you use Gmail as your primary email client, Firefox 3.5 makes it easy to associate any mailto links that you might encounter to us Gmail as the default email client. While this has been possible with previous versions, you don’t need to jump through any hoops or use any add-ons with Firefox 3.5.
If you are concerned about your privacy and don’t wish for Firefox’s new Location-Aware Browsing feature, you have probably noticed that there is no setting to turn it off in the Preferences screen. You can disable this feature though, you just have to use about:config.
Google’s SearchWiki allows you to customize your web search results by ranking them, adding notes to them and even removing them. If you don’t use any of SearchWiki’s functionality, you can disable it so that the various icons won’t show on your search results.
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