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Windows: If you’re a heavy Google Docs user this hack will add Google document types as options right in your right-click context menu. More »
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Add Google Docs to the Windows “New” Document Context Menu [Google Docs]
Posted on December 5, 2010
Lose the Taskbar Thumbnail Delay in Windows 7 with a Registry Hack [Windows Tip]
Posted on June 24, 2010
Windows 7′s useful taskbar is great, but if you don’t like waiting for the thumbnails to show up when you hover your mouse over it a taskbar item, a simple registry hack will speed things up. More »
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Speed Up Windows 7 Taskbar Navigation with a Registry Hack [Annoyances]
Posted on March 19, 2010
Windows 7′s taskbar is undoubtedly a great addition to Windows, but if you’ve got more than one application window open, you’ve got to either click twice or patiently hover to navigate to an open window. Reader Richard details how he fixed this: More »
Change Your User Profile Location in Vista [Windows Tip]
Posted on May 15, 2009
Yesterday we showed you how to move your home folder to another drive in OS X, and we’ve already done the My Documents move on XP; if you’re a Vista user, now it’s your turn.
It’s pretty easy to do in OS X and XP, but as blogger Joshua Mouch points out (along with other readers), moving your user profile location in Vista is a bit more difficult.
As our resident Windows expert the How-To Geek also points out, "moving the profile folder is… well, a rather scary operation." This is especially true if you've been using your computer for a while, since some references to your old user profile location may stay in place after the move. Still, if you're really desperate to move your user profile in Vista, check out either Joshua Mouch's somewhat complex method (involving registry adjustments and a whopping 21 steps) or the Vista for Beginners guide—which is a bit more simple but appears less effective overall. (Both are linked below.)
All this difficulty for moving the user profile folder makes us wonder if things will have changed in Windows 7. Either way, if you’ve made this change in Vista using either of the methods below (or your own completely different method), let’s hear about it in the comments. Thanks Terschinbrae and Thor!
Change User Profile Folder Location in Vista [Joshua Mouch]
Move your user files and folders to another partition [Vista for Beginners]
Move your user files and folders to another partition [Vista for Beginners]
Remove the Send Feedback Link from Windows 7′s Title Bar [How To]
Posted on January 13, 2009
Microsoft offers Windows 7 as a free beta to get feedback on what needs fixing. Still, if you’re endlessly annoyed with the “Send Feedback” link in every single title bar, there’s a way to remove it. Hit the Tech-Recipes blog for a simple registry tweak that should take less than two minutes to pull off, removing the “Send Feedback” link for good.