Troubleshooting "My Computer" Opening Slowly on Windows XP

The changes should be immediate, and your problem should be gone.

October 30, 2007 · 1 min · 11 words · Stephanie Stout

Prevent Explorer from Freezing With Large Zip Files on Vista

I grabbed the enormous zip file off my data pipe drive and saved it onto the desktop. Instead of nicely expanding, showing the sub-folders, it just started spinning its wheels. When I came back to it ten minutes later, it was still chugging away. I killed the explorer.exe process, restarted explorer and went on with my workflow. At least, until WinZip started having issues. Just like explorer, it was eating my full cpu and doing absolutely nothing with it....

October 29, 2007 · 1 min · 196 words · Caroline Smith

Quick Tip: Darken the Outlook List Grouping Headers

Note that this is a global setting across all views, not just the current one. The change should be instant, you will now see the darkened group headings.

October 29, 2007 · 1 min · 28 words · Erika Cole

Stupid Geek Tricks: Show Your Name In the System Clock

This tip is absolutely and completely useless, and will even make applications that depend on timestamps have issues. The way this trick works is by modifying the regional prefs for the time format. Start by opening Regional and Language Options from the start menu search box or the control panel. choose the Time tab, and then here’s where we can make whatever configs we want. Keep in mind that the PM symbol is only going to display during the “PM” hours....

October 28, 2007 · 1 min · 88 words · John Tanner

Upgrade Ubuntu from Feisty to Gutsy

Just click through all of them until you finally see the upgrading dialog. You’ll most likely be prompted that support for some applications has ended. Now you’ll be prompted to remove obsolete packages, and given a list of packages to remove. you’re able to always clean them up with apt later. Now you should finally be done, and be prompted to reboot your system. No more xorg.conf, hopefully. Notes So go forth, and enjoy Gutsy!...

October 27, 2007 · 1 min · 75 words · Cynthia Peterson

Stop YouTube Videos from Automatically Playing in Firefox

It drives me crazy that YouTube videos start playing automatically. All I did was convert it into an extension for people that don’t use greasemonkey. All of the credit goes to Yansky for figuring out this method. I assume he used Fry’s 7-leaf clover. Note that if you use this extension you really don’t need the other solutions. After installing this extension, you’ll notice that the video is completely gone from the page....

October 26, 2007 · 1 min · 92 words · Megan Peterson MD

Use Delicious as a Reading List the Easy Way

Once you set up the extension you’ll notice a new button with a plus sign on it. Download the Readeroo Firefox Extension

October 26, 2007 · 1 min · 22 words · Nathan Morris

How to See What Pages a Traffic Source is Linking in Google Analytics

There is an easy way to see this, it’s just not immediately obvious to everybody. In this example we’ll look at StumbleUpon traffic by clicking on it in the sources list. Now select “Landing Page” from the Segment drop-down menu. And there we are… a nice tidy list of all the pages StumbleUpon sent visitors to.

October 25, 2007 · 1 min · 56 words · William Olson

Creating a FavIcon the Easy Way

I recently decided to update the FavIcon for this site (the little icon in the address bar). Edit the header/theme for the site and insert the following line, adjusting the path if necessary.

October 24, 2007 · 1 min · 33 words · Dr. Catherine Prince

Make Firefox Only Auto-Complete Manually Typed URLs

This is helpful when you use a lot of bookmarklets or search keywords from the address bar.

October 23, 2007 · 1 min · 17 words · Benjamin Lee

Quick Tip: Email Your Calendar in Outlook 2007

This article was written by MysticGeek, a tech blogger at the How-To Geek Blogs. Have you ever wondered if it’s possible for you to share your Outlook calendar with somebody else?

October 23, 2007 · 1 min · 31 words · Joshua Hartman

How to Add Registry Editor to Control Panel

Perhaps most useful, it’s now available through the start menu search box. InstallationJust extract and double-press the installation script. you might remove using the included removal script.Download AddRegeditToControlPanel Registry Hack

October 21, 2007 · 1 min · 30 words · Geoffrey Caldwell

Easily View Source of Included Files in Firefox

Now when you right-click in any page, you’re able to quickly get access to the source. This is a really useful extension that has now become part of myweb development toolkit.Download JSView Extension from Mozilla Add-ons

October 20, 2007 · 1 min · 36 words · Karen Fisher