Tag: Windows
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How to Remove the Start Button from Secondary Display Taskbars in DisplayFusion 3.3.1
If you’re like me and use multiple monitors as part of your computer setup, DisplayFusion is one of the best ways to take advantage of that extra screen space. Simple features like adding a taskbar to your secondary displays – a feature that Microsoft has glaringly neglected to include in Windows – make extra displays…
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How to Make Launchy Find ClickOnce Application Shortcuts
If you’ve never heard of Launchy, let me do you a favor by quickly explaining it. Launchy is a simple application launcher for Windows, Mac, and Linux that makes it easy to open any application installed on your computer just by using your keyboard. After installing Launchy, you’ll basically never have to open your Start…
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How to Restore Aero Effects if the Windows Desktop Window Manager Crashes
“Aero” is the graphical user interface that Microsoft introduced with Windows Vista and Windows 7. It includes many productivity features for managing your windowed desktop environment, but one of the most noticeable features is the glass-like transparency effect that is typically present on the borders of windows. At times, the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) service…
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Fix: Advanced Search Fields in Microsoft Outlook are Disabled or “Grayed Out”
Group policy is a feature in the Microsoft Windows operating system that allows administrators to set rules and privileges for users on a network. One of its abilities is to disable indexing of files on your hard drive, which can be done for security or performance purposes. A common problem that can occur when indexing gets disabled…
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Microsoft Unveils a Slimmer, Smarter Surface 2.0
How’s that for alliteration? When Microsoft first unveiled their Surface technology in 2007, I was impressed with the possibilities that could be had when combining advanced displays with accurate, multi-touch optical recognition. Their original product combined a 30” display with a series of cameras to establish the position of inputs (like your hands), which produced…
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Fix: “Print driver host for 32bit applications has stopped working” Error in Windows 7
One problem I’ve experienced when using my Windows 7 64-bit computer with networked printers is that I intermittently get the error: Print driver host for 32bit applications has stopped working It appears that this problem occurs for most people when printing to network printers, but I was seeing it even when not printing (I would…
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Share, Organize, and Store Your Digital Files Online with Quanp
The world of online storage is a growing one, with different services and new features coming out all the time. Quanp, pronounced “Quan-Pah”, is one which I’ve found to be quite useful not only for its online storage, but the way in which it organizes and displays your files on your desktop. Quanp, short for…
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How to Enable Windows 7′s “Aero Snap” Feature in Earlier Versions of Windows
One of my favorite features in Windows 7 is Aero Snap, which automatically resizes and snaps applications to the sides of your screen when you drag them near. If you’ve got several windows open on one screen, this is a great way to manage your space (and I’ve learned it’s even more useful when working…
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Enter Social Networking Nirvana with Flotzam (Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and more)
Look, we all knew it was just a matter of time until some bold developer crammed Facebook, Twitter, Digg, YouTube, Flickr, and blogs together into a single application. Surprisingly, the universe didn’t collapse under the weight of this tremendous concept, and what came out of the reaction was a pretty cool application called Flotzam. Flotzam is a…