In the navigation bar on the left-hand side of the "Open" and "Save As" dialog boxes there are options like My Recent Documents, My Documents, Desktop etc. This is convenient for when you open the same files over and over. Here's how to add one of your frequently used folders without having to navigate all over your network to find it.

Go to "Open" or "Save As". In this example, I want to add the folder called "Reports" I use this reports folder a LOT (which contains subfolders)

Search Geek is a little different from the other search engines out there and says its like having Google, Yahoo and Bing all rolled up into one. You can customize your search, save your preferences, add it to your Firefox tool bar and much more !

Dumping your Internet cookies is really quite easy and you can remove them yourself. Now what is a cookie? Well here is a thread that will better explain that: What Are Cookies, and Are They Really Dangerous?

THE PROBLEM: You try to do a system recovery on your HP computer and it doesn't work , you follow all the steps on HP website but no boot screen when you hit F11 key !

Solution:

This tip is great for use in MS Word or Excel.

Hitting the F4 key will repeat your last action in either of these two programs. For example, if you have inserted a row or column in Excel using the Insert menu, hitting F4, will insert a second row or column without using the menu.

It is also great for formatting text in Word, for example, bolding, underlining, text color, or italicizing, etc. Just remember it repeats your last action only.

If your mouse pointer is getting in the way while you type you can change the settings as follows to have it disappear while you type away:

For Windows XP:

• Click Start
• Settings
• Control Panel
• Double click on Mouse
• In Mouse Properties, go to Pointer Options tab
• Check off the box that says "Hide Pointer While Typing"
• Click ok

For Windows Vista and Windows 7:

• Click Start
• Control Panel
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Ever sent a message in MS Outlook 2007 and realize that you just made a big mistake? Well here's a way to recall it IF the recipient hasn't already opened it.

Go to your sent messages and double click on the message you want to recall to open it up. Click on "Other Actions" on the ribbon up top and choose "Recall this message".

Here's how to clear the list of recently used files in MS Office 2007 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint).

Go to the Office Button, choose the Word/Excel/Powerpoint options button in the lower right hand corner.

In that dialog box go to "Advanced". Scroll down to "Display" and where it says "Show this number of recent documents" set the number to 0 then hit OK.

Its always fun to pull over a fun and harmless joke on a friend or co-worker. I love this one because it can drive even the experienced person nuts and yet its so easy. Plus it causes no harm, its just a harmless prank.

First you have to have access to their computer. Take a screen shot of their desktop background. Screen shots are easy to do and simple click on print screen > open paint and hit "ctrl + V"

when you do this it will paste in your screen shot of their desktop - here is mine:

Ever sit at your desk in work or at home and you're surfing the net when you really shouldn't be, you hear someone coming Here's a quick way to minimize windows all at once, very simple, ready??

Hit the start button & M simultaneously.