After writing up the method forsearching your Internet Explorer Favorites with Vista’s built-in search engine, another one of our great forum users pointed out a freeware utility that will let you search your IE favorites right from within the net online gate itself. This add-on is called DzSoft Favorites Search, and it’s completely free, although it does have one glaring flaw: you’re able to’t open up your bookmarks in a new tab, which is something I do all the time....

Open up your User folder and you should see your Favorites folder inside it. Double-click to initiate the Favorites folder. You’ll see that the default save location is User Folder \ Searches. Now when you browse to that folder you’ll see a search folder called Search Favorites. you could change the view to show details via the Views menu.

Have you ever wondered how to remove “Shared Documents” from your My Computer window in Windows XP? That’s pretty much all there is to it.

Would you like to continue?" It’s even more annoying cause, well, I’m NOT using Internet Explorer! This security mechanism is definitely annoying, but it really is a necessary evil. (see to it to tap the Add button!) You’ll need to switch to using the computer name when mapping drives so that remove the messages. Note that this should also work in Windows 7.

So, for me it is more of a nuisance than a privacy concern. Either way, changing a couple configs can certainly help. Open Firefox and hit Tools \ Options and then the Privacy tab. In the Clear Private Data box check Download History and any other download add-on you might have which appears. For instance you’ve got the option to see I haveDownload Them Allenabled, now click OK. On the other hand, this is also a great privacy and security tip....

That’s the question we’ll be answering today. You should see an option to “Try Ubuntu without any change to your setup”. This should show you all the drives available in the system, including your Windows drive. In my case, that is the 52.4 GB volume. you could try and double-choose the drive to open it… and if it immediately works then lucky you! This command tells Ubuntu to use the ntfs-3g driver, and force mount even if there is a problem....

This article is part of Mysticgeek’s IT blog, a How-To Geek blog focused on IT geekery. Organizing all of your tasks these days can be quite challenging. A very powerful, fun, and free desktop calendar tool isRainlendar2. I am very impressed with the desktop calendar utilityRainlendar2. It does a lot of what you would expect from a calendar app and more. Out of the box it comes with a straightforward UI of course we can alwaysSkinit as well....

To remove the URL from printing, simply remove the text from the Footer box. Otherwise, you could more fully customize the setup byfollowing the instructions in this article.

choose the Add button to kick off the “Select Users or Group” window. snag the Deny Permissions for that user by checking the Deny box for Full Control. Click Yes, and then click OK.

Vista Ultimate includes a feature called Shadow-Copy which automatically takes snapshots of different versions of the files you save. This allows you to easily get a version back incase you delete one. We can add this feature to Vista Home Premium by installing the free utilityFilehamster. Filehamster will run in the background and keep track of your files and directories you set it for. Installation is quick and easy. An easy setup wizard starts up initially....

Have you ever wondered how many times per day you check your email? Instead of that, what I do is assign a hotkey to switch to my already open Outlook window. Go ahead and assign your hotkey here in the Shortcut key box. As soon as you poke the OK button the hotkey should be active. I’m not sure if this option exists in prior versions or not.

There is really no point to this trick other than trick to amuse yourself and others. Open Control Panel and double punch Regional and Language Options. Next, under the Formats tab tap on the Customize this format button. you might basically enter in whatever you want up to 12 characters. Click OK twice to get out of Regional and Language Options. Here are a few examples of what you’ve got the option to achieve....

Organizing all of your tasks these days can be quite challenging. At work your employer probably supplies a calendaring and to do list software such as those included in Outlook. A very powerful, fun, and free desktop calendar software isRainlendar2. I am very impressed with the desktop calendar utilityRainlendar2. It does a lot of what you would expect from a calendar utility and more. Out of the box it comes with a straightforward UI of course we can alwaysSkinit as well....