Tips & Tricks

Navigating through the Windows file system can be difficult especially when you need to find a specific system folder. You have the need to find the folder where your cookies are stored or possibly the folder that contains your temporary internet files. Using the shell command there is a handy way to find them easily. Here’s how:

Wouldn’t be nice if all those cool sidebar gadgets could be placed somewhere else other than… well… the sidebar. Good news, they can! Here’s how:

When you’re deep in the file system and want to copy the full path of a file or folder to the clipboard so you can paste it, here’s how:

When I started messing around with Vista one thing I noticed right off the bat is that when you hold the shift key and right click on an application you would get the option to ‘Run As’ a different user. A very useful feature when dealing with user accounts who have limited rights and you need to install programs using elevated rights. IT staff that work in corporate domain environments may use this feature often.

The ClearType technology built into Windows can vastly improve the look of text in your display. Windows doesn’t natively have a lot of configuration options for ClearType, but with the ClearType Tuner Power Toy you can tune your settings via Control Panel.