Sunday, February 20, 2011

Quickie Tips Part 1

CHECK SYSTEM STABILITY


In Vista, select 'Start , Run', enter 'perfmon' and open the 'Reliability monitoring' section in 'Monitoring Tools'.

ARRANGE WINDOWS START MENU

For alphabetical arrangement, open 'Start , All Programs', right click an entry and select 'Sort by Name'.

DISPLAY PATH IN TITLE BAR

In the Xp Explorer, open 'Tools , Folder Options', activate the 'View' tab and activate 'Show complete path in the title bar'.

KEEP THE DESKTOP IN VIEW

With [Windows]+[Space], make all windows transparent in Windows 7 and thus have a view of the desktop with the Aero Peek function.

SUPPRESS JUMP HISTORY

To view the normal Window menu instead of the new jump list in Windows 7 via context command, keep the [Shift] key pressed while right clicking.