Windows Vista has several default personal shell folders for each user accounts that are been setup in the system. These pre-defined personal folders include Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, Saved Games, Contacts, Desktop, Downloads, Favorites, Links and Searches, where the original or actual location of these folders are located by default at user profile folder under system drive, i.e. C:\User\user name\ where user name is the […]
Since Windows 95, all versions of Windows operating system has included a special shell folder named My Documents, or simply Documents in Windows Vista. Most programs and applications especially Microsoft products will automatically open My Documents as the default folder to save the files, images, pictures, videos, documents and etc. If you have another hard disk drive or partition, or just purchased an external portable […]
Microsoft Office suites and products are one of the most popular Office productivity application suite in many companies and corporations. However, Microsoft Office is expensive, overly priced at best. Microsoft Office comes with many advanced features that one may never use or need, and with user friendly interface. If you willing to sacrifice some bloated features, there are plenty of complete replacement alternative for Microsoft […]
Google Hacks is a search helper tool that helps users to use Google Search functions. The software program that has its project homepage hosted on Google Code describes Google Hacks as “a compilation of carefully crafted Google searches that expose novel functionality from Google’s search and map services. For example, you can use it to view a timeline of your search results, view a map, […]
Google is an extremely powerful search engine, in the sense that it will crawl, grab and remember whatever web pages and files that its crawlers come across in the Internet, no matter whether they’re intended for public viewing. Beside, Google also provides powerful search filters and operators to return accurate search results. Thus you can find many interesting results using Google, such as unprotected live […]
As a security measure to prevent the intrusion of potential viruses, Gmail strictly disallows users to send and receive executable files (files with the extension “.exe”, “.dll”, “.ocx” or “.bat”) in its policy. If you try to send these files, Gmail will send you an error message: “This is an executable file. For security reasons, Gmail does not allow you to send this type of […]
Microsoft’s Web browser Windows Internet Explorer or IE7 has been released by Microsoft for quite some time. However, this proprietary graphical web browser didn’t seem to bring a lot of excitement in terms of capabilities, browsing speed, stabilities, etc. Comparatively, Firefox has shown better performance and given users more comfort and more fun in browsing. How to make IE7 more competitive so that IE7 users […]
Nowadays, you can see the Google Adsense ads services that already developed into a global phenomenon in most web sites. The online search engine giant had a plan to hold the pay-per-call web advertisement program which aimed to grab mobile phone’s ads market, and re-focusing their attention on other types of ads such as pay-per-action program.
Microsoft Office Live Workspace is another spin off using the Office Live brand name, with the ‘original’ Office Live service, which offers the hosted service to allow company to create a professional online presence without worry about domain names, web hosting, web design, email accounts, site promotion, and tools to manage customers and projects, has been re-branded as Office Live Small Business. Windows Live Workspace […]
By default Internet Explorer web browser with Pop-Up Blocker support will play a notification sound when pop-up or pop-under windows are blocked and prevented from opening automatically. If you don’t like or not fancy the default sound that IE uses to announce a blocked pop-up, it’s possible to change the sound and assign another different sound for Windows system to play whenever a popup window […]
Firefox web browser has a feature that provides great convenient to users, that’s Password Manager that saves passwords. Firefox can save the user names and passwords that users enter on a website, remembers the security details and then automatically fill (autofill) in the user name and password whenever users visit the particular website that requires login. However, the stored and saved password is not secure […]
Whenever users run and launch Windows Explorer, the GUI shell for Windows operating system, the Windows Explorer will open in default folder which is current user’s “My Documents” (in Windows XP or earlier) or “Documents” (in Windows Vista) in the logged on user home directory. The Windows Explorer default folder is user’s My Documents folder is the default setting in Windows that assumes most users […]
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