In Windows XP you can open the properties of a network connection with 2 clicks. In Windows Vista it takes 5 clicks to open the properties of a network connection.
I’m going to show you how to create a few types of shortcuts that’ll make opening the properties and managing a network connection much easier and faster. This can make alternating network properties of a connection from work and home much less painful.
Simple Network Connection Shortcut
This section shows you how to create a simple shortcut to a network connection’s properties. You can place the shortcut on your desktop or quick launch toolbar and when you open it the network connections properties opens up.
1. Open the Network and Sharing Center by clicking the network icon next to the clock one time and then click Network and Sharing Center in the pop up window.
2. Click Manage Network Connections on the left side of the Network and Sharing Center window.
3. Right-click the network connection you want to create a shortcut for and then select Create shortcut.
4. Windows Vista will give an error saying it can’t create a shortcut there but it asks if you want to create a shortcut on the desktop instead. Click Yes.
5. A shortcut to the network connection is now on your desktop. If you open it the properties for that network connection will open.
Advanced Network Connection Shortcut
If you need more control of a network connection this section shows you how to add a shortcut to a network connection in the start menu that can be managed, disabled, enabled, or repaired by simply right-clicking it.
1. Open the Network and Sharing Center by clicking the network icon next to the clock one time and then click Network and Sharing Center in the pop up window.
2. Click Manage Network Connections on the left side of the Network and Sharing Center window.
3. Drag the network connection and drop it on the Start orb.
The network connection is now at the top left of the Start menu. You can go to the network connection’s properties by simply clicking it or you can enable, disable, bridge, or diagnose the connection by right-clicking it.
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Written by Jason on June 8th, 2008 with no comments.
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There has been large number of special folders in windows and we keep accessing these folders from different locations. When I say Special Folders, I mean folders like My documents , Startup , Temporary Internet Files etc.
We cannot access all these special folders are scattered over the operating system drive and some times they are so deep in terms of the directory structure which a normal user cannot remember easily.
But a cool freeware called Special Folders View makes it possible to list all these special folders in one go.
As shown in the image above, Special Folders View displays the list of all the special folders in which you just need to double click over a special folder path entry to open it in windows explorer.
You can also save list of folder paths to separate text / html file, With the new version recently released you can create shortcuts for any special folder directly on your desktop ( as highlighted in the image below ).
F7 is the keyboard shortcut for creating desktop shortcuts for special folders.
This application is completely a freeware with no adware , no spyware and no malware program embedded with it.
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Written by Jason on June 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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Recently, I was searching for a utility that can be used for using the windows clipboard more effectively for fast and easy copy paste of any text/image simply with a keyboard shortcut.
I found many application on web that solve the purpose but I don’t want to buy any application for this task, after a lot of googling I found lot of utilities like Yclipper , Clipboard History etc.
But still none of them were so much powerful in their freeware mode, then I found ClipX which is completely free.
What is ClipX?
ClipX is a tiny clipboard history manager, it can be recalled via a hotkey and supports both bitmap and text clipboards. It can be used to manage and increase the features of your regular windows clipborad.
As, already said it can be used to copy any type of text, image or file in windows.
Let’s see how can you configure and use it.
Configuration of ClipX:
1. Double click on the tray icon of ClipX or just start it from all programs
2. Now click on the hotkeys option in the left sidebar and set your hotkey for secondary paste and other options (as shown in the image below).
Usage of ClipX:
1. Press the secondary paste hotkey followed by the number of the item in the clipboard history which you want to paste.
This small utility can be very productive at many times specially when you are doing programing for some application.
Tip: You can also search inside the ClipX clipboard history, explore ClipX to know how.
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The more stuff that Windows has to start up during boot, the longer it will take to complete.
So, with that in mind, the first thing you need to do is start unloading programs which are set to start automatically when you boot Windows. There are two places, primarily, that you want to look at:
1. Look in the “Startup†folder in your Start Menu. Anything in that folder is set to start automatically. To remove a program from this folder, simply navigate to the “Startup†folder in your Start Menu, right-click on the item you want to remove, and choose “Delete†from the menu. This will not delete the program…only the shortcut to it. (more…)
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Here’s a simple tip to clean your system in seconds.
This works only for Windows XP
On your desktop, create a new shortcut and instead of browsing for a file, write down this shortcut-
%windir%system32rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
Click Next - and name it “Whatever you want(literally)â€.
And then open the shortcut when ever you feel that your system is running low on resources.
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Super fast user switching is a powertoy which makes it easy to switch the active user. But you must be a member of the administrator group to see other users! Quite useless for normal users, but this is done on purpose. I contacted Lou, the programmer of fast.exe, and he said (quote):
“It actually has to do with permissions. As a regular user, you don’t have access to the (InteractiveLogon) service. This is because I didn’t want to open another hole in Windows. This is unavoidable.”
The solution opens a hole, but makes super fast user switching usable. (more…)
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Written by Jason on November 14th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Super fast user switching is a powertoy which makes it easy to switch the active user. But you must be a member of the administrator group to see other users! Quite useless for normal users, but this is done on purpose. I contacted Lou, the programmer of fast.exe, and he said (quote):
“It actually has to do with permissions. As a regular user, you don’t have access to the (InteractiveLogon) service. This is because I didn’t want to open another hole in Windows. This is unavoidable.”
The solution opens a hole, but makes super fast user switching usable. (more…)
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