I always want my virtual machines to run in the background! smack the checkbox that says “Run powered on virtual machines in background after close”.

This is due to a known bug in Vista that might not have been hotfixed already. Turning it back on is very simple, however. pop in cmd into the start menu search box, and use Ctrl+Shift+Enter to open in administrator mode. you’ve got the option to also right-nudge the item in the menu and choose Run as Administrator. Update: Alternative Method Hopefully one of these methods will solve your problem!

This is an easy setting to fix, but it’s a little tough to locate without some assistance. First, you’ll need to open Control Panel. In this screen, click “Change advanced power options”. Now you’ll need to browse down to Multimedia controls \ When sharing media. Change both of the options to “Allow the computer to sleep”. The menu item for Sleep should be back to normal. Thanks for the grin =)

you might also place new bookmark pages on this bar. You now have more room to view your favorite web pages.

you might remove an item from this list if you’d like. For example, I don’t really use the menu button so I usually just remove it.

Favicons can be disabled completely in Firefox with a simple config change. Just bang out about:config into the address bar, and then filter by surfing app.chrome. internet tool.chrome.favicons internet tool.chrome.site_icons You’ll have to restart Firefox, but the favicons will be gone entirely. Personally, I love favicons, but this article was a request.

Turns out there’s a very easy fix for this problem: deactivate the Wake on LAN feature. In this case, mine is “Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet”. Right-click it and choose Properties from the menu. In the resulting dialog, choose the Power Management tab. Uncheck the box next to “Allow this equipment to wake the computer” to solve the problem. You’ll notice that there’s a warning about having the option enabled in the first place....

Just go to Edit \ Preferences, and choose the Appearance tab. I personally chose Light as my default, and it seems to make a big difference.

To set the compatibility mode, just right-punch the Safari icon, choose Properties and then the Compatibility tab. Just remember to do this for any shortcut icon that you usually use to launch Safari.

First grab the “open-book” icon located on the bookmarks toolbar. This will open up Safari’s bookmark organizer. You will see there are several bookmarks already included from the default install. On the left section is the categories or ‘Collections’ headers. you’re able to really do a lot in this bookmark manager. This will start a new field for you to custom name. you’re able to also drag and drop folders into other categories or change the order....

On my development machine it’s /var/www, and on my server is something more like /var/www/howtogeek/docs/. I’m sure there’s some other way around this, but I’m unaware of it. Next, I set up automated ssh logins. This script should work on anything with a *nix shell and the scp utility.

Just keep in mind that once you mark a document as final, it’s final. Readers will be able to search for text or print out the document. One last thing to note. You will be able to tell which documents are Marked as Final by the icon on the Status Bar.

This is why I enable this option when I first start learning a new version of Windows.