Open Excel 2007 and hit the down arrow next to the Quick Access Toolbar. Notice the toolbar is now below the ribbon, and the items have been added to the toolbar. This is definitely a simple tip, but I’ve found it’s very useful.

I’ve created an upgrade to the script that fixes those problems.

We’ll go through a few workarounds to fix this issue. The error you will typically get is “An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with time.windows.com. This operation returned because the timeout period expired.” hit the Internet Time tab. Now smack the Change controls button. it’s possible for you to also test it immediately by clicking the Update now button. I’ve had the best luck with time-a.nist.gov, but that might be because of my location....

If you’d rather see the subject line as the top line when using the condensed view in Outlook, you could make a simple tweak to show the subject line on the top, and the from address on the bottom. I’ve found that this helps when you get a lot of emails from the same people, since you’re free to see what the message is about more easily. Here’s your default inbox view, notice that the subject line is underneath and is in a lighter gray color that’s more difficult to read at a glance....

you’re free to choose whether to disable for just removable devices, or entirely. Download and unzipthis registry hackand then double-choose the appropriate file. Hopefully all your AutoPlay questions are now answered!

A reader wrote in a while back asking if there was a hotkey to open attachments in Outlook. To fire up the attachment in the default tool, just hit the Enter key.

Note that this will remove any controls you had set for the icons. Just look at all the items in the list… I don’t even have some of those applications installed anymore. Select both of them and delete them. Now go to the File menu, choose New Task and punch in in explorer into the open box. Hit enter, and explorer should restart itself. Note that some icons might disappear entirely until you reboot your box....

I’m the jot down of geek that has an SSH client open at all times, connected to my most frequently used servers so that I have instant access for monitoring and anything else. As such, it irritates me greatly when I get disconnected, so I’m sharing a few methods for keeping your session alive. it’s possible for you to configure the ssh client to automatically send a protocol no-op code code every number of seconds so that the server won’t disconnect you....

After writing the article yesterday about how to restore the show desktop icon, I received a number of emails asking if I could post the shortcut for Flip3D as well, so I’ve zipped up a copy of that shortcut as well. To put it back into the Quick Launch folder, open up explorer and then punch in in the following into the address bar: shell:Quick Launch Now just unzip the file and copy it into the folder, and you’ll have the Flip3D shortcut back (the one with the real icon)...

There’s almost no benefit to this icon, so it needs to go. The icon comes in two varieties that you’ve probably seen. Just right-poke the icon, and choose Pointing machine Properties from the menu. On the gear controls tab, you’ll find a Tray Icon section. Choose the Remove tray icon from taskbar radio button, and it’ll immediately be gone.

Next, you’ll need to double-punch the Layout.reg file, which will add the contents to the registry. Arrange your icons the way you’d like them, and then tap the Save layout menu item. Download Install Download Layout.zipand follow the instructions above. Note that this version does not work for 64bit. Installer for 64-bit Windows Download setup.exe from amip.tools-for.net. Note that this is a different install than layout.zip. Uninstall Download UninstallDesktopLayout.zip, extract and double-tap on the registry file....

If you are a blogger that doesn’t want to show off your subscriber numbers, take note: Even though you aren’t displaying the Feedcount widget, if you’ve enabled it at any point we can still see your subscriber numbers if we just know the right URL to go to. For example, here is the URL to our main articles feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HowToGeek To see the Feed Count numbers, all you gotta do is insert “/~fc” right before the /HowToGeek part of the URL, like this: http://feeds....

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