Switch Windows by Hovering the Mouse Over a Window in Windows 7 or Vista

That’s pretty much it.

June 9, 2007 · 1 min · 4 words · Erica Nguyen

Find Emails With Attachments with Outlook 2007's Instant Search

The Instant Search box in Outlook 2007 is a huge improvement over previous versions of Outlook, but remembering all the search operators can be a little difficult, so here’s a quick one that I use all the time. To find emails containing attachments, use the following operator in your search: hasattachments:true you’ve got the option to also combine search operators… for instance, if I wanted to find all emails I’d sent to myself with attachments, I’d use the following:...

June 8, 2007 · 1 min · 127 words · Heather Cooper

Quick Tip: Turn off Prefetching in Firefox

(note: this is a good excuse for how those pages ended up in your history). It’s also a waste of CPU and bandwidth that slows Firefox down.

June 8, 2007 · 1 min · 27 words · William Rios

WordPress Plugin's Spam Filter

And so, the Geek’s Spam Filter was born. This spam filter is designed to completely block and delete most, but not all spam. Changelog 0.3 Changed logic to concat the fields together to reduce processing timeAdded more keywords to the list

June 8, 2007 · 1 min · 41 words · Veronica Adams

Add Line Numbers In Word 2007 Margins

Open your Word 2007 document and snag the Page Layout tab on the ribbon. hit Line Numbers and then Line Numbering Options… You will now get The Page Setup dialog window. At the bottom of the page hit Line Numbers. In the Line Numbers dialog box place a check in the Add line numbering box. When you’re done choosing your configs click OK. Then Click OK again in the Page Setup dialog window....

June 4, 2007 · 1 min · 84 words · Nicole Francis

Using Windows Mobility Center in Vista

Open Mobility Center Use the hotkey Win+X to quickly launch mobility center. You could also find it in the Start menu. Windows Mobility Center Features Mobility Center gives you access to features relevant to laptop users. This is a quick overview. Display Brightness By default Windows Vista dims the screen when on battery mode. you could easily adjust the brightness here. Volume you could easily change the volume or mute it entirely....

June 4, 2007 · 1 min · 140 words · Julie Barnes

Force Terminal Services Clients to Disconnect when Idle

you might help prevent this from happening by setting a policy on the server to automatically disconnect when idle. To change this setting, go to Administrative Tools \ Terminal Services Configuration. press Connections in the left hand pane, and then right click RDP-Tcp and select Properties. In the resulting window opt for Sessions tab. it’s possible for you to set it lower if you’d like. Change the radio button to “Disconnect from session” when session limit is reached....

June 3, 2007 · 1 min · 90 words · Peter Gibson

Temporarily Disable Windows Update's Automatic Reboot in Win7 or Vista

If you were downloading some important files you might not want the computer to reboot automatically. you could do this by opening an administrative mode command prompt. key in cmd into the start menu search box, and use Ctrl+Shift+Enter to open in administrative mode. You could also right-smack the item in the menu and choose Run as Administrator.

June 3, 2007 · 1 min · 58 words · Timothy Pitts

Embed True Type Fonts in Word and PowerPoint 2007 Documents

In this example I will use Word, but you might follow the same steps for PowerPoint also. First, punch the Microsoft Office Button in the upper left hand corner and choose “Word Options”. snag the Save tab on the left. Under the “Preserve fidelity when sharing this document” section, first choose your document. Now when you save that document, the fonts will be embedded for everyone to see.

June 2, 2007 · 1 min · 68 words · Emily Mathis

Fix "New transaction cannot enlist in the specified transaction coordinator" on Server 2003 SP2

[-2147168246]". To fix this error, open Component Services and right-tap on the My Computer icon and choose properties. Choose the MSDTC tab and then at the bottom of the window tap the Security Configuration button. In this window, change the setting under Transaction Manager Communication to “No Authentication Required”. This should resolve this error.

June 2, 2007 · 1 min · 54 words · Austin Kaufman

Using Comments in Word 2007 Documents

Open your Word Document. On the Ribbon nudge the Review tab, and choose the New Comment Icon. After organizing my thoughts on this rough draft I choose the “Show all Revisions Inline” option. This makes it easier to maintain the clean interface on the document. Just hover your mouse over the noted text to see the comment.

June 2, 2007 · 1 min · 57 words · Mario Davis

Sweet Black Theme for Windows XP

Just initiate the installer and it’s ready to go. Here’s a screenshot of the default theme look. The first thing I do is swap out the background image with something better.

June 1, 2007 · 1 min · 31 words · Peter Bryan

Quick Tip: Spell Check Firefox Text Input Fields

We’ve all seen misspelled article titles (especially on Digg.com) Doesn’t Firefox have built-in spell checking? Lucky there’s a quick fix for this. No more typos in search terms!

May 30, 2007 · 1 min · 28 words · Margaret Ortiz