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Windows 8 – Move the Desktop’s Taskbar Around the Screen

16 Oct

Tired of the Windows 8 Desktop Taskbar appearing at the bottom? Why not move it to the top or another edge?

As with earlier versions of Windows, when you access the Desktop mode of Windows 8, the Taskbar by default appears at the familiar place – the bottom of the screen.

Would you like to move the Taskbar to the top of the screen similar to other operating systems? Or if you have a wide monitor, perhaps you prefer the Taskbar to appear at the left or right edge. Making this change is easy:…

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Windows 8 – WordPad: Disable Spacing After Paragraphs

16 Oct

Prevent WordPad from adding extra space after paragraphs that might cause problems when exporting to .TXT format.

By default, when writing documents in WordPad in Windows 8, an extra 10 pt of spacing is added after each paragraph for stylistic reasons. This way one does not have to press Enter twice after the end of each paragraph for space to appear between.

There may be times, however, where you find this behavior annoying. Perhaps you are writing a document in WordPad and need to save a copy in .TXT format. In this case, your paragraphs will appear one line after the next, without any spacing, because this 10pt of spacing is not converted to a line break. Or maybe you edit all of your text documents in WordPad because you like the zoom features or ability to quickly change the font via the Ribbon. Likewise, your text documents will not have the added spacing and may not look as intended….

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Windows 8 – For Privacy, Prevent Flash from Storing Local Data

16 Oct

Prevent the Flash plug-inside Internet Explorer from storing local data on your machine, and clear previously-stored data.

The Flash plug-in that runs inside Internet Explorer in Windows 8 can store local information such as game high scores, favorites when viewing groups of information, preferences, or as cookies that can identify when you access a particular website or application multiple times.

While some of this data may be required by certain Flash applications, you may be concerned about your privacy. Thus you can configure Flash to not store data on your machine, and to clear data that may already be stored. Doing so, however, may make it difficult, if not impossible, to run certain Flash apps or visit certain web sites….

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Windows 8 – Remove Tiles, Including Animated Tiles, from the Start Menu

16 Oct

Don’t need to see Bing, Finance, Photos, or other tiles on the Start Menu? Remove them quickly.

Are you the kind of person who just wants to get things done with their Windows 8 machine and don’t need to see live tiles such as Bing, Finance, News, Photos, Sports, Travel, or Weather on their Start Menu with their constantly-updated information from the Internet?

To remove a tile or group of tiles from the Start Menu, just do the following:…

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Microsoft Outlook 2010 – Oops! Prevent CTRL+ENTER from Sending a Message

16 Oct

Prevent Outlook 2010 from interpreting an accidental CTRL+ENTER as a request to send the current e-mail / message.

You may be used to CTRL+ENTER placing a page break inside a Microsoft Word 2010 document. However, this does not work in Microsoft Outlook 2010. The first time you hit it, Outlook 2010 displays a dialog box warning you that pressing this keyboard combination will actually send the current message. If you are the type of person who skims through dialog boxes (ahem), you might accidentally check the box saying that you don’t want to be warned again, and then click the “Yes” button. Or you might do this intentionally at first, thinking it is a useful feature, allowing you to send a message without having to take your hands off the keyboard.

… and then later, disaster strikes when you are composing an e-mail while still in the Word 2010 mindset. You may start typing a draft message, press CTRL+ENTER thinking that you are inserting a page break, and oops! Outlook 2010 sends your draft message! And you know that e-mail is just about impossible to recall once sent. So if this scenario has happened to you, how can you get the dialog box to come back, or better yet completely disable this “feature” altogether?…

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Don’t Use Keyboard Shortcuts? Remove Them From ScreenTips

16 Oct

If you prefer not to use keyboard shortcuts in PowerPoint 2010, stop showing them in the pop-up ScreenTip help.

As you move your mouse pointer over various on-screen icons and other elements in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and see popup ScreenTips appear, you may have noticed keyboard shortcuts shown occasionally. If you’re used to pressing CTRL + S to save a document or CTRL + P to print one, you may find these reminders useful.

However, some people rarely venture far from the mouse, preferring to click buttons, navigate menus, and never worry about memorizing combinations of letters and modifier keys. If you fall in this latter category, you may wish to ditch these shortcut reminders….

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Windows 8 – Prevent Current or New Drives from Being Defragmented / Optimized

16 Oct

Windows 8 will attempt to defragment current and newly-connected drives on a schedule – learn how to turn this off.

By default, Windows 8 will attempt to defragment, or optimize, your hard disks and partitions every week, an often useful tasks that can speed up your computer by moving data around.

You might determine that certain external hard disks should not be optimized on a schedule, instead choosing to optimize them on an as-needed basis. Also, defragmenting a solid state drive is not recommended and can actually shorten its lifespan. Thus you can configure the Optimize Drives tool to ignore certain drives or not optimize every new drive connected to the machine during the regular maintenance window….

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Microsoft Outlook 2010 – Where is the Blind Carbon Copy Feature?

16 Oct

Send a copy of an e-mail via Blind Carbon Copy so all recipients are not shown.

Have you ever sent an e-mail to someone and needed to send a copy to their supervisor, coworker, or family member, and did not want the original recipient to know everyone to whom you are sending a copy? Or do you need to send e-mail to dozens or hundreds of people, such as an ad hoc mailing list you manage, and do not wish everyone to see each other’s e-mail address?

Most e-mail programs support a feature called BCC, or Blind Carbon Copy, allowing you to send e-mail to a person or group of people and keep those recipient addresses hidden. Microsoft Outlook 2010 has such a feature as well, but you need to know where to look……

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Mozilla Firefox – Plugins and Extensions – Add Print and Print Preview to Context Menu

16 Oct

Right-click on a web page and choose to print or print preview the page with the QuickPrint extension.

Do you frequently print web pages viewed in Mozilla Firefox, sometimes accessing the Print Preview feature to make sure your hardcopies look as intended? If so, you may find it frustrating to go through Firefox’s menus or use the Ctrl+P keyboard shortcut to access these features.

If you prefer using the context menu (right-click on Windows, Option-click on Mac), consider the “QuickPrint” plug-in. Just right-click a webpage and access the “Print” and “Print Preview” options from there. It’s that simple!…

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Google Chrome – Disable Plugins Such as Flash Unless You Want Them to Run

16 Oct

Show boxes inside Google Chrome when a Flash, Shockwave, Adobe Reader, or other plug-in wants to run, allowing you to click to play them.

If you are concerned about the privacy, security, and system stability implications of running plug-ins such as Flash and Shockwave inside Google Chrome, you may have thought about completely disabling plug-ins. Unfortunately, doing so makes some websites difficult, if not impossible, to access.

One option is to have Google Chrome show you when it wants to run a plug-in, but not actually do so, giving you the ability to selectively turn on a Flash widget, play a Shockwave game, display a PDF file with an external viewer such as Adobe Reader, etc….

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