Control Panel allows you to perform various tasks on your Windows 7 system, but these tasks are contained beneath their parent category. Instead of having to click various categories to find the desired task, you can access all Control Panel tasks in a single window, allowing you to easily find what you are looking for.
This recipe is not really so much a tech/hardware recipe but more of a social hack. I’ve had T-Mobile as my cellular provider for well over 4 years and have not moved off of them because of their much cheaper (but previously slower until as of recently) data plans. Lets get back that T-Zones $5.99 plan!
This recipe is for the more brave geeks with a rooted Nexus One who can’t get wired or wifi tethering working. This resolves the blank SU screen that may hang.
This recipe shows how to locate your PSP Go’s Wifi MAC Address. This may be needed depending on the security on your wireless network.
Normally, taking ownership of a system file or folder can be a bit of a pain, taking numerous steps that can be a major inconvenience. If you do a great deal of tweaking to your system, you are bound to run into an instance where you need to take ownership of a system file to accomplish the tweak. By adding a Take Ownership command to the Explorer context (right-click) menu you will make taking ownership of a file a piece of cake.
If you’re tired of seeing the splash screen for Windows Live Mail every time you run the application, follow these steps to get around it and be splash screen free.
After Windows Updates are installed, your computer will be forced to reboot. This can be inconvenient if you are running other applications at the time. You can prevent this from happening by making a change to your registry.
By default, Google Chrome will use the proxy settings that Internet Explorer uses. If you wish to use a different proxy server (or disable the proxy completely) you need to append a switch to your application shortcut.
For PSP Go owners, a very cool feature is the ability to pair bluetooth devices with the system. This recipe will show you how to toggle between outputting audio between the PSP Go’s speakers/headphone jack and a bluetooth headset/speaker.
Hibernate Mode saves your current session to the hard drive and turns off your computer, allowing you to return to that session when you come out of Hibernate. If you don’t use Hibernate mode on your Windows 7 computer, you can free up some disk space by disabling it.
Thunderbird prevents the automatic download of images in email messages as a security measure. You can override this feature by following this tech recipe.
By default, Yahoo! Mail prevents the automatic download of images in email messages (except messages from your contacts) as a security measure. You can override this feature and download all images that come to your Inbox.
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