Right-click on your desktop background and select [Properties]. From the “Display Properties” window, select the [Desktop] tab. Select the [Customize Desktop...] button at the bottom. Uncheck the “Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days” box and click the [OK] button, and then click the [OK] button on the display properties window. That should be it!
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Is this really an Explorer issue?
via Windows 7 Fail – F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab. Okay, I get annoyed with Windows’ design on a regular basis, but I don’t know that defaulting to showing file extensions for known file types is the right answer. I guess the real problem is that Windows 7, like every other Microsoft-designed Operating [...]
Emulating Grep in Powershell
Emulating Grep in Powershell. The option presented is to perform a grep on several files. For a search in one file, with results going to output.txt select-string -pattern "{pattern}" -caseSensitive c:\path\to\file.txt > output.txt One note: The lines wrapped at the width of the command window, even when redirected to a file.
Why Google Will Never Be Good At Enterprise Search
Very good points in the following article: Why Google Will Never Be Good At Enterprise Search | SocialComputingMagazine.com. I like to think of the difference as: Publisher-centric search with influence given to the reader/subscriber for internet search. Data and hierarchy centered search for enterprise search.
Great article on life-hacker about Windows Performance tweak myths.
Mythbusting: Debunking Common Windows Performance Tweaking MythsRegistry cleaners, memory optimizers, and Vista settings… oh my.
From the PowerShell team blog
PowerShell Team Blog blog entry on the Linux MagazineBash vs. Vista PowerShell from Linux MagazinePowerShell Script Center
Cannot hibernate Windows XP machine "Insuffienct Resources Exist to Complete the API"
For me, this was happening on a Lenovo T61 with 2GB of RAM… and for every time that I tried to hibernate.Microsoft Knowledge Base Article (KB909095) : The computer occasionally does not hibernate and you receive an “Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API” error message in Windows XP with Service Pack 2, in [...]
Microsoft Windows startup Registry Settings
INFO: Run, RunOnce, RunServices, RunServicesOnce and Startup: I believe this is pretty much a bulk of the information set by Xteq X-Setup. For those who don’t want to make the purchase for a very simple edit, the following is the except from the Microsoft KB article General order of loading: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices <Logon Prompt> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce [...]
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