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I was playing with task manager, when I came across this simple trick, which lets you display any item from task manager as a ‘desktop widget’; learn how to make your task manager into a widget in this guide.
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Use Task Manager as a Desktop Widget [How To]
On March - 3 - 200913 COMMENTS
Customize Folder Icons in Vista Explorer [How To]
On February - 27 - 200913 COMMENTS
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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.
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Figure 1 – Customized Folder Icons
Select Multiple Files with Checkboxes in Vista Explorer
On February - 26 - 20097 COMMENTS
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.
Set Shortcuts to Commonly Used Folders in Vista Explorer
On February - 25 - 20094 COMMENTS
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.
Set Default View for All Folders in Vista Explorer [How To]
On February - 24 - 20091 COMMENT
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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.
How To Series: Customize Windows Vista Explorer
On February - 23 - 20092 COMMENTS
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 www.mintywhite.com readers.