Windows Tools, Help & Guides

This How To guide is going to show you how to remove the location history from ‘Personalization’ in Windows 7 x86 & x64.

If you’ve been using the same Windows installation for a while and like to change your background more frequently than your pants, then this drop down menu can become a bit unwieldy and sometimes ends up including broken links.
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TWC in conjunction with Lee Whittington have released IconCache Rebuilder for those of you experiencing weird problems with your icons in Windows 7.

[UDATE – See Rich’s How-To guide to fix your corrupt icon cache manually]

Sometimes you may find an icon that just won’t display correctly no matter what you do.

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On Windows Forums, members have shared some great customizations and to help you find them, we’ve created a Windows 7 Customization forum.

Here are some of the recent topics in the forum:

• Custom Windows 7 Start Orbs
• Bing Dynamic Wallpaper Windows 7 Theme
• Akropovic Theme for Windows 7
• Token Start Orbs

Windows 7 Customization forum

According to several online sources.  Microsoft have officially started to work on Office 15.  They have already hit a preliminary internal assembly (Pre-Alpha); MSO_v15_1 & MSO_v15_2.

The sources indicate that new features and direction of development won’t be clear for another …

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We love desktop wallpaper on Windows Guides. Here’s a collection of 50 hand-picked high-resolution wallpapers from various sources online. Know a good place for wallpaper or have some to share? Let us know about it in the comments.

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My PC is looking more and more like Medusa these days.  With a never ending need for additional storage i find my self using multiple external hard drives.  Not to mention my iPhone, iPod, Printer, Thumb drives & camera.

So I went and bought a 6-into-1 USB adapter.  This thing was dirt cheap and i knew it was only USB 1.1.  I rarely sync my iPod and my camera is only on to charge so 1.1, for the money was ok with me.

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