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Windows Live Mail: Automatically Spell Check All Email Before Sending

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You can make Windows Live Mail automatically spell check all outgoing e-mails before sending. The following option will force this to occur before you send out composed messages and help avoid embarrassing spelling mistakes.

WMP 12: How to Listen to Internet Radio

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You don’t have to just rely on ripped music files or CD’s to listen to some good music. If you’ve got a good internet connection, you can use Windows Media Player to listen to internet radio and enjoy all kinds of music anytime you wish to.

Kindle for PC: Adjust Words Per Line Setting to Customize Width of Page

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Depending on the display settings, Kindle for PC may not give you an optimum viewing area. Monitors that are in portrait position and Tablet PC’s can be troublesome viewers for reading via Kindle for PC because you are presented with a very narrow page to read. You can modify the page width by adjusting the Words Per Line setting.

Windows 7: How To Change a Library Icon

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Windows 7 allows you to create your own Libraries, but changing the icon is not a straight forward process. The GUI doesn’t allow for changing the icon and the desktop.ini file isn’t used. To change the icon, you just need to have the desired icon and a little help from our friend, Notepad.

WMP 12: How to Change the Default Location for Storing Ripped Music Files

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By default, Windows Media Player 12 stores the music you rip from CDs to your Music folder. You may want to store these in another folder on a larger drive. To change the default location, follow these steps.

Windows 7: How To Remove the My Bluetooth Places Icon from the Desktop

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If you are tired of having to deal with the My Bluetooth Places icon resting on your otherwise perfect desktop, you can get rid of it by following these steps.

Windows 7: How To Enable the Numeric Key Pad on the Onscreen Keyboard

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By default, Window 7’s Onscreen Keyboard has the numeric key pad disabled. If you use numbers a lot, you will want to enable the key pad to make it easier to input numbers.

Firefox: Enable AutoFill in URL (Address) Bar

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By default Firefox has AutoFill disabled for the address bar, but if you like this functionality, you can enable it by following these steps.

Firefox: Enable Case Sensitive Searches When Using Find (Ctrl+F)

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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.

Windows 7: Enable Print Screen for Media Center’s Full Screen Mode

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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.

Windows 7: How To Disable Live Preview for Taskbar Thumbnails

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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.

Firefox 3.6: Enable Visual Previews When Using Ctrl+Tab (Windows Only)

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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.