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Windows XP File Association Fixes
The other day I was unable to open a .cab file on my PC. I had no idea how the file association got messed up. At the same time my .zip file associates were bad. I stumbled onto this great site that...
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Do Not Deliver Before
My buddy Reeves just pointed me to a sweet Outlook feature that I never knew about called Do not deliver before. In a recent post I commented on how I'm trying to get in the habit of not doing work...
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Microsoft AntiSpyware
Not very often does a piece of software come along that blows me out of the water. A few months ago I got a very real experience dealing with spyware. Even after coaching my sister through fixing her...
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Skype 1.1 Install Problems
Jeff is having problems installing Skype 1.1. I am having the same problems. This is the first time I've ever used Skype, so this is not leaving a good impression.Anyway, booting into Safe Mode allowed...
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Make ico files from png
I found this great freeware utility, png2ico, which will take a png and create an ico file. I wanted to create a favicon for my web site, and this made it super simple.This will also come in handy when...
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Guide to ripping CDs
Chances are, you have ripped some of your music. More than likely you chose a lossy encoding. Probably it's in MP3 format. Maybe not. Anyway, I have continually refined my ripping strategy. It's...
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Groove Virtual Office
Wow. I installed Groove a few days ago on advice from Dennis and tried the File Synchronization feature. There are few things I will say this about. It's Magic. I can just drag stuff to a folder and it...
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Digital Audio Tools
Eric Virro has a great site that covers all aspects of ripping digital audio. Highly recommended reading if you are curios about lossless, transcoding, cleaning, converting etc.
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Show/Hide Filenames in XP Thumbnails View
Did you know that if you hold down the SHIFT key when selecting Thumbnails View or opening a folder, the Filenames for the items will not be displayed? I didn't, but just found out because for some...
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Get to the root of an Explorer window
Found this great tip from Ed Bott. You can take advantage of the explorer.exe command line switches to scope a view to only contain the subfolders. For example:explorer.exe /e,/root,"C:\Windows"will...
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Offline Files made easier
Jonathan Hardwick has an excellent post on Offline Files support in Windows XP.I posted some of my annoyances on his post, but today I found something that makes offline files so much more tolerable....
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Haha, deny explorer access to reg setting
Found a solution for my annoying toolbar changing behavior between IE and Explorer.Go to:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\ShellBrowserand Set the Permissions for your...
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QuickTime support in windows without the player
Want to use Windows Media Player to watch QuickTime movies without the Apple player (which I find has a poor user interface, and non standard windows...
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Explorer Status Bar fixed in XP SP2
Holy cow, how did I miss this gem?[Tony Schreiner]New Pet Peeves FixedThe disappearing status bar bug should be gone for good. We also fixed most of the scenarios where the URL you were typing in the...
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Nikon RAW image thumbnails in XP Explorer shell
I've been mildly annoyed by the fact that I can't see thumbnails of my Nikon NEF (RAW) image files in the XP Shell. Luckily someone has a product that takes care of...
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Spyware
A few days ago I got one of those dreaded phone calls from my sister. It went like this:sister: “My internet is broken”omar: “Huh?”sister: “When I launch Internet Explorer it quits right away”omar: “Uh...
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PDF SpeedUp
I have previously written about how darn slow Adobe Acrobat 6 is when launching. I don't understand why Acrobat is so darn annoying. Here are some things I don't care for:Don't create a “My eBooks“...
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CD/DVD Burning in XP
<rant>I really want to know why the top two windows CD/DVD burning programs as such big fat junky programs. For many years I used Roxio Easy CD Creator. In fact, I used Toast on the Mac for many...
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Microsoft DigitalPersona (Biometric Fingerprint Reader)
Who ever said Microsoft doesn't innovate is just full of it. I just picked up the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader. This thing is so utterly cool. The software it comes with is awesome.Basically it works...
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Vacation in progress
If you are trying to reach me over the next week, I will be unavailable. Many have asked me why I’m on vacation so much these past few weeks. Well, my wife has been in Oahu for the past 9 weeks doing a...
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