Double Clicking Drive Opens Open With… Dialog
When you try to open any of the drives on your PC, instead of opening it so that you can see the files, it opens an Open With box instead.
Category Archives: Microsoft
Bad Video File Crashes Explorer
When you open a file in Windows XP that has a corrupted video, image files, HTML pages, or MP3 file, Windows Explorer crashes.
Disable Tabbed Browsing in IE 7
Your organization has finally made the jump, and deployed Internet Explorer 7 to the general populace. However, there are a few of the employees that do not quite get the idea of tabbed browsing. It just confuses them more. Luckily, you as a system administrator, can remotely disable tabbed browsing through a registry tweak. Sure, you could simply… Read More »
Disable or Enable Workstation Locking
Most of the time, you’ll want to lock your workstation. You may not be working with super-secret stuff, but you will want to keep your machine free of the wandering hands of your co-workers. I know some of my co-workers.
Add File Management to Context Menu
Adds “Copy To” and “Move To” options in files and folders right-click context menu.
Automatically Terminate Hung Apps
Sometimes you may experience and app that just hangs, and you are unable to close it in the normal fashion. You can use this registry change to automatically close hung apps after a specified period of time.
Add Take Ownership to Right-Click Menu
To take ownership of a file or directory, you’d normally right click the object, select properties, open the security tab, click advanced, open the owner tab, select a new owner, then click apply.
Find System Uptime with XP
Click Start | Run and type cmd to open a command prompt.
Find System Uptime with Vista
Hint: It’s in Task Manager.
Find System Uptime with Windows 7
Just use the task manager!