Archive for February, 2007

Capture Screen Shots In Vista with Snipping Tool

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Snipping Tool is a new screen grabber tool that comes included with Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate. It is very straightforward and easy to use and has the following features:
Free Form Snip - Allows irregular shaped drawings to be captured from a triangle to a zig zag.
Rectangular Snip - […]

Keyboard Shortcuts when using Folder List

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Years ago when I was working in Milwaukee one of the admins at the company refused to use a mouse for anything that could be done by keyboard shortcuts. In time he got pretty fast at it and he could usually run through things faster then his mouse using coworkers. I barely remember […]

New Desktop Wallpaper for Windows Vista

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Hamad Darwish did some of the original desktops that ship with Windows Vista. If you have had a chance to look through them you can tell they were amazing works. He has now released additional desktops that didnt quite make the cut. Looking through them though they really are amazing.

To get these […]

Where did the Menu Bars go?

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Notice anything missing in your Explorer folders? The menu bar (File, Edit, View…) is missing from those windows. It seems that MS decided to save you a little space for the windows. Though as most things happen to be in Windows Vista you can customize the windows and bring them back!
If you […]

Add a Personal Folder to the All Programs menu

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

If you want to organize some of your program shortcuts into specific folders it is quite easy in Windows Vista. Lets walk through it really quickly.
Right click on the Start menu button and then choose Explore
Note: If you want to have this menu apply to all users choose Explore All Users

The Start Menu Explorer […]