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PC World October 2005 Scott Dunn |
Keep Your Data Folders in Date Order Automatically Plus: Create more format options for your folders, and make custom right-click menus for your files and folders.  |
PC World September 2005 Scott Dunn |
Windows' Command Line Puts You in Control Text commands can make quick work of many Windows tasks; plus, a free file-copy utility.  |
PC World September 2003 Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: Check Your Disks for Errors, With a Single Click Automate hard-drive maintenance; XP Pro vs. XP Home; the versatile Power Menu utility.  |
PC Magazine August 30, 2006 |
Batch File Redirection Oddity Redirecting the output of a batch file in Windows XP  |
PC World February 2006 Scott Dunn |
The Quickest Way to Make Several Folders at Once A shortcut makes multiple folders... Change your 'open with' list... Spiff up your command prompt...  |
Linux Journal April 2000 Stephen Collyer |
Shell Functions and Path Variables, Part 2 Mr. Collyer continues his discussion with a detailed description of the addpath function.  |
PC World August 2003 Scott Dunn |
Pain-Free Windows Tweaks Want to fix nagging Windows irritations and automate everyday tasks? With these surprisingly simple Registry and batch-file tips, it's not brain surgery.  |
PC Magazine November 16, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Send Control Codes to a Printer from XP If you have an older printer and need to send control strings to change printer settings, this guide will help you do it efficiently in Windows XP.  |
PC World December 2001 Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: Right-Click for Faster Windows Navigation Right-click around Windows... sort better in Details view, edit the Registry safely... remap your keyboard...  |
PC Magazine December 9, 2003 |
Rename Files to Match Date/Time Stamp Is there a simple way in Windows XP Professional to rename a group of files, with each filename made up of the date and time of file creation? Yes, there's a way, but it's not that simple.  |
PC Magazine March 2, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
Create a Huge File You can create a file of any size using nothing more than what's supplied with Windows.  |
PC Magazine September 7, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
Using the Start Command in XP Firing up a program in XP from a batch file requires some special knowledge.  |
PC World November 2000 Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: Still Tweaking After All These Years Customize with Tweak UI... automate backups for Win NT and 2000...  |
PC World November 25, 2007 Scott Dunn |
Fast Windows Fixes From bullet-fast startups and shutdowns to automatic data protection, here are 31 tweaks to make Vista and XP smarter, more reliable, and more efficient.  |
PC World April 2006 Scott Dunn |
Windows Hacks: Registry Remedies Get the Windows XP you really want with these 12 tips for mastering the operating system's inner workings.  |
PC World April 2003 Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: Take the Shortcut Route to Instant File Backups Easily back up your files after you finish working on them... restore the Change Passwords panel... hide specific file extensions.  |
PC Magazine September 5, 2008 Neil J. Rubenking |
Get a List of Filenames Print all the filenames in a folder with a command prompt trick.  |
PC World February 27, 2007 Preston Gralla |
Windows Tips for Everyone Whether you've jumped to Vista or are sticking with XP, our tips will make your computing faster and safer and even a little more stylish.  |
PC World November 2002 Scott Dunn |
The Insider's Guide to Fixing Windows You don't have to bend to Windows' will -- just follow our tips to shape it to your liking.  |
PC World December 2000 Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: Superscrub Your Drive Automatically Automate disk maintenance, speed up printing from your laptop...  |
PC Magazine February 17, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
Move Numbers within Filenames Is there a utility or method to help me batch rename files to put track numbers at the front?  |
PC Magazine June 1, 2005 Sarah Pike |
Top Tips & Tricks For Windows Windows XP tips that will help you solve nagging problems, make Windows suit your style better, make you more safe and secure, help you cooperate with multiple users, and improve performance when you're on the go with a laptop.  |
PC World September 25, 2007 Scott Dunn |
The Express Route to Windows' File and Folder Paths When a dialog box asks you to enter the path to a file or folder, save time with one of these shortcuts.  |
PC Magazine October 5, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
View Source Fails in Outlook and IE In both Outlook and Internet Explorer, right-clicking and choosing View Source currently does not work on my computer.  |
PC Magazine November 30, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
Putting the List of a Folder's Contents into Word A little command-prompt magic saves you from copying individual filenames.  |
PC Magazine November 30, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
Ampersands in Excel Headers Here's the trick for inserting characters that double as control codes in the Microsoft spreadsheet.  |
PC Magazine August 19, 2003 Matthew P. Graven |
The Windows Survival Guide If you're just getting ready to make the move to Win XP, or if you're anxious to dig beneath the surface and find some cool new tools, or if you've been using Win XP for a while and it's time for some serious maintenance, you'll find what you need to know in this guide.  |
PC Magazine April 16, 2009 Jeremy A. Kaplan |
A Quick Fix for Vista Problems Does Windows Vista seem sluggish to you? The slowdown could be caused by any number of things, but there's an easy way to cross a few off your list  |
PC World March 2004 Scott Dunn |
76 Ways to Get More Out of Windows Quick, easy ways to tame your operating system...from speed tweaks to security checks to troubleshooting tips.  |
PC Magazine May 4, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
A Better Way to List a Folder's Contents in Word This technique for putting the list of a folder's contents into Word is indeed quite a bit easier than switching to the command prompt, especially if you skip the step of saving the document as a text file. How?  |
PC World January 2004 Lincoln Spector |
Protect Yourself Against Application Sneak Attacks Bring back lost private folders; get a fresh start for System Restore; save data from a corrupted file.  |
PC World September 2003 Lincoln Spector |
How to Reinstall Windows Without Losing Your Data It's a big job, but it can cure Windows' creeping decrepitude; plus, sudden reboots revisited.  |
PC World July 23, 2007 Lincoln Spector |
Vista Defrag Problems Why doesn't Vista's disk defragmenter work in safe mode?  |
PC World April 2001 Kirk Steers |
Hardware Tips: Fix PC Crashes via Conflict Resolution Identify software conflicts; locate a slow Internet link with ping...  |
PC World March 2001 Scott Dunn |
Windows Freebies Go the OS One Better Use free applets to tweak Windows, clean up the Registry...  |
Linux Journal January 1, 2003 Adam Lazur |
Power Sessions with Screen Screen is a terminal multiplexer that allows you to manage many processes through one physical terminal. Each process gets its own virtual window, and you can bounce between virtual windows interacting with each process.  |
PC World September 14, 2001 Gregg Keizer |
Windows 2000 FAQ We solve 20 of the most vexing problems with Windows 2000...  |
PC Magazine August 3, 2004 |
Automatic Login to Windows XP Regarding the item "Start Windows XP Without Waiting for Welcome," as long as your computer is not a domain member, you don't have to limit the number of user accounts, and you don't need TweakUI.  |
PC Magazine July 13, 2005 Helen Bradley |
Declaring Variables in Excel All variables in Visual Basic must be set with a DIM statement or you will get an error. To make the example work, you need to add the following statements.  |
PC World August 2001 Lincoln Spector |
Answer Line: Fix System Files Without Reinstalling Windows Fixing DLLs... Removing index.dat under Windows Me... Windows Me's default file view... Share e-mail address books...  |
PC Magazine December 1, 2008 |
Tech Tips (Vol. 27 No. 13) Using Windows help system... Build tree diagrams fast... Start-up errors... Speed up speech recognition... Beautiful colors in Excel... Fake museum mode on your camera...  |
PC World July 19, 2007 Scott Spanbauer |
Upload the FTP Utility That Bill Gave You Windows' own address bar lets you transfer files to your ISP's Web server.  |
PC Magazine July 11, 2007 David A. Karp |
Tame User Account Control You can get rid of Vista's annoying security prompts but doing so may place your system at risk.  |
PC World March 2003 Lincoln Spector |
Answer Line: What Do You Do When Windows Doesn't Boot? Also: nonsensical Windows error messages; add Excel data to a Word file; print later by saving as .prn; transfer Word AutoCorrect settings.  |
PC World February 21, 2007 Lincoln Spector |
How Do I Get Malware Off My PC Once and for All? Options for removing reappearing spyware... Print on both sides of your paper... Pull up a report on all your drivers...  |
PC World May 2001 Lincoln Spector |
Move Your Old Drivers to a New Computer Move your drivers to a new system... make a hub-free network for two PCs...  |
PC Magazine November 16, 2004 Larry J. Seltzer |
Limited User Accounts Here's a clever way to bolster Windows PC security--with some catches.  |
PC Magazine August 12, 2008 Neil J. Rubenking |
Can't Update? Reinstalling Windows XP will wipe out the history of your system updates.  |
PC World March 16, 2000 Kirk Steers |
PC Troubleshooting FAQ Your machine's misbehaving? Try these solutions for some common PC woes.  |
PC World February 2004 Lincoln Spector |
How Do I Keep Other People Off My PC? Use these tricks and tools to protect your files. Plus, automate PC shutdown, find out how much laser-printer memory you need, and update XP's Start menu.  |