Have you ever: Wished you could copy someone’s shared folder over to your PC so you can own everything that he shares, and then always copy the latest content that he has? Wished that you backup that very important folder into some other PC so that you don’t have to feel very suicidal when your [...]
Posts in the ‘Windows’ Category
How To: Resize Vista's Desktop Icon
There are two ways to resize the desktop icon in Windows Vista. One of the ways is to use one of the three defined sizes: Right-click on any blank space in your Desktop, and choose “View“, then pick one of the three “Large“, “Medium” or “Classic” size (they correspond to 80px, 48px and 32px respectively). [...]
How To: Speed up folder access with Windows Vista's "Favorites"
If you open up any Windows Explorer instances in Vista, you’ll notice that Microsoft have make the Favorites more visible: Windows Vista has made the Favorites folder more visible by default You can actually add links to your own frequently used folders to speed up access.
How To: Make Good Use of Vista "Home Folder"
Windows Vista comes with a new way of organizing your personal files, music, videos, pictures – even downloads! Find out how to make full use of these folders!
How To: Remove Those Pesky Thumbs.db files!
Note: Removing thumbs.db in Windows XP will effectively slow down previewing your images (in explorer thumbnail mode), as this is what Windows XP uses to store the thumbnails of the images in the folder. You will need to disable this function in Windows XP permanently if you would not want the thumbs.db file to be [...]
How To: Opening DAA and UIF files
Have you ever obtained any software or media that is packaged in *.DAA or *.UIF format? I have come across a few, and honestly, I have no idea why would anyone package them in those formats, when a good old *.ISO can do. Searching in major search engines will lead you to two softwares (read: [...]
How To: Unlock and Delete/Move/Rename files that are claimed 'In Use'
Have you ever tried to delete some files in your computer, and this annoying error message shows up? You have double, triple and even quadruple checked that there are no applications that are using this file. In fact, you might have just closed all your applications and Windows still claims that something – devil? – [...]
How To: Find out which folders/files that uses most of your disk space
As our hard drive free space becomes lesser and lesser, we tend to wonder what uses them so much (even though sometimes we do forgot about that 50GB complete series TV shows that we’ve downloaded over the past months). One way is to check your folder sizes one by one (which might take ages and [...]
