Copy Windows wrongdoing Messages to the Clipboard

Labels: Monday 18 July 2011 22:27

Instead of re-typing long, aching absurdity letters whenever you are aggravating to Google for a solution, did you apperceive you can artlessly use Ctrl+C to archetype the argument of the bulletin to the clipboard?
If you appetite to analysis this out for yourself, aloof accessible Windows Explorer and blazon an incorrect drive letter into the abode bar, and you’ll get an absurdity bulletin immediately. 
Just hit Ctrl+C whenever you get an absurdity bulletin prompt, and again you can adhesive it into block (or anywhere you’d like)
Personally I adopt to adhesive the absurdity letters into a bare block window so I can baddest aloof a allocation of it for pasting into Google. This is additionally a absolute way to archetype your absurdity letters back you are allurement for advice on our forum.
This tip should assignment in Windows Vista or XP or 2003.

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Copy To the Clipboard by the Windows prompt

Labels: 22:24

Let’s face it, not everybody is an ubergeek, so there are abounding times that you’ll charge to ask somebody for help. They consistently assume to ask you to blazon things into the command alert and again acquaint them the results… but how do you archetype that argument to the clipboard so you can email it to them?
I had consistently anticipation this was universally understood, but it turns out that a lot of bodies are blind of how it works. There are two options, the absence right-click menu… or QuickEdit mode. We’ll explain both.
Enable QuickEdit Mode
Right-click anywhere on the appellation bar and again baddest Properties. (Or use Alt+Space P)
On Options tab, assure the box as “QuickEdit Mode” and so close the dialog.
That was simple…
Copy / Paste in QuickEdit Mode
If you accept this approach enabled, you can artlessly left-click anywhere in the window and annoyance a box about the argument that you would like to select.
Once you’ve called the text, you can either right-click anywhere in the window or use the Enter key to archetype the called argument to the clipboard.
To adhesive into the command prompt, artlessly use the appropriate abrasion button anywhere central the window while not in “Select” mode.
Copy / Adhesive With Right-Click Menu
If you don’t appetite to change any settings, you can aloof use the right-click card to archetype or adhesive text. Note that the right-click card doesn’t appearance up with QuickEdit approach enabled.
Right-click on the accomplishments of the window and baddest “Mark”, and again draw a box about the argument you appetite to copy.
Once you accept called the argument you want, again use the appropriate abrasion button or the Enter key to archetype the called argument to the clipboard.
To adhesive into the window, right-click and accept the “Paste” advantage on the menu.

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Clear up IE7 browse History of the Command Line

Labels: 22:17

If you like to body accumulation files to automate cleanup on your computer, you’ll apparently appetite to accommodate at atomic one of these commands in your accumulation script. You can automate any one of the functions on the Internet Explorer 7 Delete Browsing History dialog.
Here’s the chat that you are apparently acclimated to seeing:
And here’s the commands that accord to the altered buttons. The best important one from a cleanup angle is the first, which will annul aloof the acting internet files that are abashing up your computer.
To use these commands, aloof run them from the command line, the alpha card chase box in vista, or a accumulation file.
Temporary Internet Files
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8
Cookies
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 2
History
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 1
Form Data
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 16
Passwords
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 32
Delete All
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 255
Delete All – “Also annul files and settings stored by add-ons”
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 4351
These commands should assignment in Internet Explorer 7 on XP or on Windows Vista.

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Cleaning Past notice Icons in Windows Vista

Labels: 22:12

A actual advantageous affection in Windows is the adeptness to automatically adumbrate arrangement tray icons back they are not in use. The botheration is that over time, Explorer caches a account of every distinct figure that it’s anytime seen, and your account ability abound to hundreds of items that Explorer knows about.
The added affair is that Explorer keeps these items in anamnesis somewhere, so it’s additionally causing bloat, but we can absolutely displace this account with a little catchy anthology alteration and recycling Explorer. Note that this will abolish any settings you had set for the icons.
To get to the chat we are talking about, right-click on the Taskbar and accept Properties, again accept the Notification Area tab, and bang the Customize button.
Just attending at all the items in the list… I don’t alike accept some of those applications installed anymore.
Open up regedit.exe through the alpha card chase box, and again browse bottomward to this anthology key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify
Now you will see two entries in the list: IconStreams and PastIconsStream. Select both of them and annul them. (You may appetite to accomplish a advancement with the consign action afore you do this)
Now we’ll charge to recycle Explorer.exe by aperture up assignment administrator (You can use Ctrl+Shift+Esc), selecting explorer.exe in the account and allotment End Process.

Now go to the File menu, accept New Task and blazon in charlatan into the accessible box. Hit enter, and charlatan should restart itself.
Now your Customize Notification Icons chat should appearance you a actual apple-pie account of items, but agenda that any settings you had will be displace to default.

Note that some icons ability abandon absolutely until you reboot your computer. Also, if the Volume/Power/Network icons aren’t able to be called in the taskbar backdrop dialog, you should be able to abutting it and re-open it and they will assignment again, but you ability accept to baddest them again.

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Switch the distance of Time as Users Need to Change their Login Password

Labels: Sunday 10 July 2011 11:15

If you’re the ambassador of a aggregate computer or a few in the office, you apparently appetite to accept the users change their countersign periodically for added security. Here’s how to do it in Windows 7 & XP.
Note: This uses Bounded Aegis Policy which is not accessible in Home versions of Windows. These are bounded settings on machines not on a domain. Area settings will booty antecedence over bounded settings.
Changing Countersign Age in Windows 7
Log in as Ambassador and blazon Secpol.msc into the Search box of the Start Menu and hit Enter.
Local Security Policy opens. Navigate to Account Policies \ Countersign Policy and double-click on Maximum countersign age.
Here you can change the Maximum countersign age to what you want. By absence it is 42 days, but you can change it from 1-999 days. When you’re finished, bang OK and abutting out of Local Security Policy Editor.
Whenever you were adjust them to zero, the password would never expire.
Changing Password Age in XP Professional
While accessible in Windows 7, XP gets a bit added tricky. First go to Start \ Run and blazon mmc and Enter.
The soothe opens and you prefer to go to File then select Add/Remove Snap-in…
Now click on the Add button…
Roll down and highlight Group Policy objective Editor…then click Add.
Under aggroup Policy objective make sure it says Local Computer and click Finish.
Now you will charge to cross to Local Computer Policy \ Computer Configuration \ Windows Settings \ Security Settings \ Account Policies \ Countersign Policy. Then as afore double-click Maximum countersign age.
Then change it to whatever you want it to be.
Conclusion
If you appetite to accomplish users on your bounded machine(s) to change their passwords periodically, alteration the countersign age is how to get it done. You should accept users change their countersign consistently and animate them to use able passwords as well.

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Exchange Display below the System Tray Clock in Windows 7

Labels: 10:59

If you’re on the computer 18+ hours a day, you apparently await on the alarm in the arrangement tray abundant of the time. Although it’s generally overlooked, there are altered means you can adapt the breadth to affectation altered time and date formats.
Everything looks accustomed here…however it can be annoying accepting to hover the abrasion over the alarm to affectation the day of the week. Yeah…yeah…how can you not apperceive what day it is? Trust me, during a active day you can balloon a lot including your own name!
To affectation assuredly appearance the day of the anniversary or change the date and time architecture to article you’re added adequate with, accessible Control Panel and go to Region and Language. Here you can accomplish changes to the Date and time architecture how you would like it.
Click on Additional Settings and beneath the Date tab baddest the date and time formats you would like to see. Notice What the notations mean… You can change it to some affair in the dropdown card or you can blazon in what you want.
There are a lot of altered combinations and formats you can create. You ability appetite to try altered formats and see what works best for you. For this archetype I entered in dddd/M/d/yyyy so I can see the day of the anniversary all the time after aerial the abrasion over the clock.
Or perhaps you just now want the day of the week and the time only…
This may assume like a accessory abuse to your computer, but it can be absolutely able in allowance you get things done easier. Sometimes it aloof comes bottomward to “the little things”.

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Switch default on Wallpaper Folder to My Pictures about Windows XP

Labels: 10:52

Have you anytime wondered why Windows XP had such awfully animal wallpapers to accept from? On top of that, there’s no way to calmly change the account of backgrounds to a binder you ability absolutely use… like your My Pictures folder.
There’s a adequately simple anthology drudge you can do to accomplish Windows attending in a altered folder, but if you appetite to get rid of Blue Lace 16 you’ll additionally accept to annul it manually. (The accepted warnings about anthology alteration administer here)
With a name like “Bliss” you would anticipate I would be beneath annoyed of seeing this:
Change Wallpaper Folder
Open up regedit.exe application the alpha card Run box, and again cross bottomward to the afterward key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

On the right-hand ancillary you should see a amount alleged WallPaperDir, which defines the binder Windows uses to abide the list. If the key does not exist, again you can actualize a fresh cord amount with the aforementioned name.
Double-click to change the value, and again adhesive in the abounding aisle to your My Pictures folder. (Note that you could specify any aisle actuality if you capital to.)
The change should be immediate, the abutting time you accessible the Desktop panel… but you’ll apprehension a cardinal of absence images still in the list. Turns out that Windows additionally queries the Windows binder for images…
To get rid of those, browse to C:\Windows and again attending for a set of angrily animal Bitmap files:
You can annul these images to accomplish them stop actualization in the wallpaper alternative list, aloof be accurate not to annul annihilation abroad in your Windows binder or you acceptable won’t be able to cossack anymore.
Another acrimony solved…

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Convert Your Windows 7 program library Icons the easily Way

Labels: Saturday 9 July 2011 11:45

Have you anytime capital to bandy out the Windows absence icons with article else? The fresh Windows 7 library icons can be afflicted with a drudge to a argument file, but there’s an easier way. We’ll explain both.
Not abiding what we’re talking about? Open up Windows Explorer, and analysis out the Libraries.
For today’s lesson, we’ll advise you how to change those icons with article else. (It’ll additionally assignment for your own custom Libraries).
Change Library Icons the Accessible Way
To change the icons out the accessible way, we’ll use a tiny apparatus alleged Library Figure Changer from a user over at deviantART. Thanks to Pratik for pointing us appear this tool!
Once you’ve opened up the tool, you’ll be presented with account of icons and libraries… aloof bang on the Library on the right-hand side, and again accept the figure on the left, and bang “Select Figure from dll”. You can additionally use the Select fresh Figure from book instead, if you don’t appetite to use a absence Windows icon.
Note that if you appetite to restore the figure to default, you accept to bang on the Library aboriginal on the right-hand side, and again bang the Restore absence figure button.
Another agenda is that if you appetite to change out the DLL, you’ll charge to baddest it, and again hit the Enter key. 
Once you’ve swapped out your icon, it usually shows up appropriate away, or you can Refresh with F5 (though logging off or restarting explorer.exe ability be required).
Download Replace Librarie Icons from deviantART [mirror copy]
Change Libraries the Manual Way
Don’t feel like messing with a allotment ofcomputer application from some being somewhere? You can accomplish these changes manually with annihilation added than Notepad. Just adhesive the afterward into the alpha card chase box, or Explorer area bar:
%appdata%\microsoft\windows\libraries
Then annoyance one of the icons from Explorer over to a Notepad window to accessible up the file.
Inside the file, you’ll see an iconReference line, or if you don’t see it, you’ll appetite to add one like so:
C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,301
The abstracts in the average is the path, either to the figure (.ico) file, or if you are referencing a DLL file, you’ll charge to add the breach and cardinal position of the figure in the file. 

And now you’ve abstruse how to bandy out the icons. Awesome, eh? Alright, able-bodied it’s not that awesome. But still fun aberrant advice to have.

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Switch the Windows 7 or Vista Power push button* to Shut Down/Sleep/Hibernate

Labels: 11:31

The absence activity for the Power button on the alpha card in Windows 7 is shutdown, and in Vista is Sleep, which isn’t necessarily advantageous for everybody, so we’ll explain how to change it here.
Change Windows 7 Abeyance Button
Windows 7 makes it absolutely accessible – aloof arch into the Alpha Card / Taskbar preferences by right-clicking on the alpha card and allotment Properties.
All you charge to do is change the drop-down for Ability Button Action to whatever you would prefer.
Change Windows Vista Ability Buttons
You can configure this ambience calmly by application the avant-garde ability settings panel, which is a little catchy to get to normally, but we’ll booty the shortcut.
Open a command alert (type cmd into the alpha card chase bar), and again blazon in the following:
powercfg.cpl,1
You could additionally booty the continued avenue (Control Console \ Ability Options \ Change Plan Settings \ Change Avant-garde Ability Settings)
Once you get to this dialog, browse bottomward as apparent to “Power buttons and lid”
From here, you can change the options:
* Ability button activity – Changes the accouterments ability button action
* Start card ability button – Changes the ability button on the Start Menu
You can change the ability button to either Sleep, Hibernate or Shut Down, or alike annihilation for the accouterments ability button.

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Modify the Number from past Items Shown on the Windows 7 / Vista Start Menu

Labels: 11:23

If you’ve anytime wondered how to configure the cardinal of abstracts apparent on the Recent Items menu, you’ve begin the appropriate article. The absence bulk is set to appearance 10 documents, but you can access that with a anthology tweak.
What we are alteration actuality is the bulk of abstracts apparent in this card (I afflicted abundance bottomward to 1 for illustration)
Manual Registry Tweak
Open up regedit.exe through the alpha card chase box, and again cross bottomward to the afterward key, creating it if it doesn’t exist.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Add a fresh DWORD 32-bit amount called MaxRecentDocs into the right-hand pane, and again double-click to accessible it up.
To set the value, you’ll aboriginal charge to change Base to Decimal, and again you can access any amount you want. For instance, if you appetite to set it to 50, access that into the Amount abstracts field. 

Now I’m not absolutely abiding what will appear if you set it to a huge number… I’d stick with article like 20.
Note that the aforementioned abuse works in Windows 7 as well, alike admitting the screenshots are from Vista.

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Shift Start Menu to apply little Icons in Windows 7 or Vista

Labels: 11:17

Windows Vista uses ample icons by absence in the alpha menu, and it hides the ambience for baby icons appealing well. No matter, we’ve amid it. (Thankfully Windows 7 is a bit easier)
Changing in Windows 7
Simply right-click on the alpha card orb button, accept Properties, again analysis the box for Use Baby Icons on the Taskbar tab:
Changing in Windows VistaRight click about the start push button, and pick out Properties:
Then click the Customize button:
Now annal bottomward all the way to the bottom. You should see a checkbox for Use ample icons, which you’ll appetite to uncheck:
Ahh, much best, peculiarly whenever you pin your favorites to the start menu:

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Add lost Off-Screen Windows back up to Your background (Keyboard Trick)

Labels: 10:53

If you’ve anytime absorbed up your laptop to a accessory adviser and again broken after canonizing to move the windows aback to the primary desktop, you’ve apparently encounted this problem:
The appliance is running. You can see it in the taskbar, but you can’t see it on the screen, because it still thinks it’s active on the accessory monitor. You try and use right-click, Move, but that doesn’t do anything, and the window doesn’t move anywhere. You end up rebooting and cursing Microsoft.
There’s a simple ambush to get about this. First accomplish abiding you’ve alt-tabbed to the window, or clicked on it already to accompany it into focus. Again right-click on the taskbar and accept Move
At this point, you should apprehension that your cursor changes to the “Move” cursor, but you still can’t move anything.
Just hit any one of the arrow keys (Left, Right, Down, Up), move your mouse, and the window should magically “pop” aback assimilate the screen.
Note: For keyboard adeptness people, you can aloof alt-tab to the window, use Alt+Space, again M, again Arrow key, and again move your mouse.
This should assignment on any adaptation of Windows. It’s absolutely amazing how abounding bodies are not acquainted of this little trick.
Update: Note that you can additionally right-click on the taskbar and accept to Cascade your accessible windows, which will generally advice accompany the windows aback assimilate the screen.

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