I know this is off-topic, but it has been a frustration of mine since I reinstalled Windows and I just resolved it.  I reinstalled Windows only to find out that Steam and Team Fortress 2 did not like my Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum and my mic set as Line 2 instead of microphone.  Initially I set [...]

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I know this has been covered on other sites but I thought I would post it here for the benefit of our readers.  Why would you want to do this?  Well, because Notepad that comes with Windows is, well, if you’ve used it then you know what it’s like and have probably moved on to something [...]

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Here’s a quick tip I found out about the other day from a fellow co-worker: You can drag and drop a single file or folder onto the command prompt and it will paste the path automatically. This saves time compared to the old-fashioned way of selecting the address bar, copying, then right-clicking on the command [...]

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Now first thing’s first…why would you want to do this?  Well if any of you have booted to VistaPE or Vista you will have noticed the tastefully bland boot screen that is mostly empty except for a wonderful leprechaun green status bar that doesn’t even really show a status at all (as if a bar [...]

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It really bothers me and my 17 month old son that Windows Explorer in Vista randomly forgets the column widths between different folders.  It also bothers us that there isn’t an option to have the columns automatically size to fit when I browse between folders.  So my day goes like this: Browse to new folder and see [...]

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