I just got finished with my first full draft of Windows 7 – The Pocket Guide, which will be released to mintywhite.com readers soon.
Update: Many of you are waiting for your 90-day licenses of Advanced System Care PRO. There is some confusion with the vendor and the serials will be in your forum inbox early next week–I am sorry for the delay.
Every month we take a look around some of the most interesting windows-related web sites. We collect the best free stuff and write tips to help you get more out of Windows. Below you’ll find wallpapers, icon packs, fonts, screensavers, and freeware we’ve found over the last 30 days. We’ve also put together our most popular windows guides.
Enjoy the overview of stuff you shouldn’t have missed in February 2009
UPDATE: This offer has expired. Get the free version.
For a limited time, all Windows Forum members may obtain a FREE 90-day license for Advanced SystemCare PRO. I’ve reviewed this product in the past and I am yet to find someone who is not completely satisfied with how this program works. I use this software on all of my computers and I’m feel this is the best program for cleaning up and optimizing your system.
Thank you to Iobit for the licenses!
I use some folders as a dashboard to get to commonly used folders. A good example of this is my ‘Media’ partition. Here, I have my Music, Video, Pictures, and other folders. In this guide, you’ll learn how to customize your folder icons to achieve something similar to Figure 1.
Figure 1 – Customized Folder Icons
There are so many fonts out there – but it seems you have to pay for all the good ones. Put your credit card away and enjoy these free fonts. Available to you are many more sets – linked below.
Check out more font collections on Mintywhite.com
When you want to select multiple files, you need to hold the CTRL key; if you let go of it before selecting another file, you lose your entire selection. Windows Vista’s solution to this problem is allowing you to select check boxes next to files, so you do not have to hold the CTRL key. Learn how to enable this setting, by default, in this guide.
Windows Explorer has a great feature in Vista: the shortcut menu. This shortcut menu is customizable and can save you a lot of time if you frequently open and close files from specific locations. Learn, in this guide, how to modify this menu.
Windows Vista does a pretty good job at analyzing the content of a folder to determine how it should display the files. 98% of the time I just want to see the details of the files and I don’t care for thumbnails, tags, ratings etc. If you are like me and want to simplify Windows Explorer’s view, this guide is for you.
There are so many fonts out there – but it seems you have to pay for all the good ones. Put your credit card away and enjoy these free fonts. Available to you are many more sets – linked below.
Check out more font collections on Mintywhite.com
For the next week, I’m going to run a series of guides that will help you customize Windows Explorer on your Windows Vista machine.
These guides come from the ‘Windows Vista – Customization Manual’ [Download a copy now]. The customization manual runs over the basics of customizing your Windows Vista machine to make it more personal. This guide is free of charge to all mintywhite.com readers.
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