By pinning the Control Panel to the Taskbar, you can use its Jump List to easily access the various control options such as Administrative Tools, Devices and Printers, System, etc. By eliminating the necessity to open the Control Panel to get to these, you save precious time.
By default, Windows 7 keeps the Windows Live Messenger icon on the Taskbar instead of moving to the system tray. If you want it off of your Taskbar so that it behaves like it did before, you can easily place it on the system tray, giving you more room on your Taskbar for other applications and files.
If the thumbnail pictures are not displaying correctly, resetting the thumbnail cache will fix this (most of the time). Resetting the cache will clear it and force the automatic creation of the thumbnails as needed.
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.
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