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.

a coworker ran into this problem today and i have never seen it so im not sure how to fix it. somehow he managed to rotate the entire view/picture on the monitor. i havent played with it to fix it but several other pretty computer literate peopl have and we cvant put it back to "normal". so for now hes got to turn his head sideways or lay the monitor on its side to look at it. haha!

As someone who surfs the web there is nothing nicer then a clean website but some OMG fail so bad its not even funny. So here are some of in my opinion FAIL on epic scale:

I dont know if this is a Bridezilla site or if it was created by a webzilla: yvettesbridalformal.com

My volume in not working on the laptop, in particular youtube videos, any ideas? The volume is turned on, is there something else I can try?

Ok this picture made me laugh. See not only can we have bad internet days but so can a huge company like Google

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My daughter emailed me her school paper today. She said it was a word file but I can't get it to open. It says its a .docx file. I looked at some of the word files I have and they are .doc files. What is the x for? I tried to open it up in excel and that didn't work either. How do I open it up?