Windows Sidebar in Vista may not load and start automatically when Windows Vista boots and starts. Windows Sidebar does not start automatically if user accidentally unselect the check box to instruct Windows Sidebar starts with Windows option when close and exit from Windows Sidebar. It’s also possible that somebody change the setting in Sidebar properties. Whatever the reason, if you want to enable and automatically […]
Mozilla Firefox comes with a built-in Password Manager to remember, store and autofill sign in user names and passwords on the websites with registered accounts in a database file under user profile directory. Firefox users can use a Master Password to secure and protect the saved passwords. However, if you have lost or forgotten the master password, you cannot access and view all the saved […]
Adobe Acrobat Reader is very popular and commonly used to view and read pdf files. It is available free and it is easy to use. There are some plug-in or add-on programs available which can interact well. These addon programs provide some additional functions and enhance the host application’s functionality.
If you have change the default location of shell folders (user folders) such as My Documents folder (and Pictures, Music, Videos, Contacts and other folders in Vista) to another different path, folder location or drive, here’s the way to revert and restore the target location of the folder back to its original default location.
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’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 […]
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 […]
When Internet Explorer 6 or Internet Exploerer 7 (IE 6 and 7) Pop-up Blocker prevents a window from appearing, users are informed, by default, in the following ways: An Information Bar appears saying that a popup has been blocked with relevant options. An icon appears in the status bar. A notification sound is played.
Microsoft Office Outlook program stores all its data in special files called Personal Folders with .PST file extension. The data files is used by almost all version and editions of Outlook products, including Outlook 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003 and 2007. The .PST files are hidden inside a deep rooted nested folder under respective user directory. If you want to copy out and backup the Outlook […]
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