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Windows 7 – middle click to close program

Posted by: pureessence on: May 3, 2010

I upgraded my laptop to Windows 7 Ultimate yesterday (Andy bought it as a student for $10). Since I’ve been using Vista for over a year, switching to Windows 7 really wasn’t that big of deal. Switching from XP to Vista was a lot more painful. A few things annoyed me however. I have always [...]

Eclipse CVS show history tags column stretched out

Posted by: pureessence on: March 12, 2010

Gosh, I managed to double click on the show history tags column one time viewing a file that has gazillion tags. That stretched the tags column out of its capacity. There seems to be no way at least in UI to get that back to normal size so I can see the columns to the [...]

New year greeting = spyware?!

Posted by: pureessence on: January 6, 2009

I got THIS SUCKER last week at work. I haven’t gotten spyware in hmmm like 4 or 5 years. I was really embarrassed that I got it at work so I did not want to ask their IT support for help. I don’t have full admin rights on my work computer so I cannot do [...]

Sansa e250 read Chinese

Posted by: pureessence on: October 19, 2008

After having my Sansa e250 for over a year, I finally figured out how to read Chinese on it. I followed the instructions on this forum and it WORKED. Therefore I’m going to save the steps in case the forum thread is removed. The complete guide of enable Asian Language support in Sandisk Sansa e200 [...]

another reason why I love foobar2000

Posted by: pureessence on: April 7, 2008

I’ve been using foobar2000 as my media player for quite some time. It’s lightweight, highly customizable and uses little resource. Today while I was listening to some soothing music, I remembered back then I had a CD player that had a sleep function where you can set a timer to have it automatically turn off [...]

laptop middle mouse button

Posted by: pureessence on: February 24, 2008

I’ve been complaining as long as I’ve been using a laptop that I miss a middle mouse button because I’m so used to using it on my regular mouse esp. to open pages in new tabs in Firefox. I accidentally discovered today that at least on my laptop Dell Inspiron 6400, if you click on [...]

where is IE7 refresh button?

Posted by: pureessence on: December 18, 2007

I can’t believe I googled on this. I thought IE7 took out the refresh button but in fact they just moved it. Moved it to the end of the address line. This also shows how little I used IE7 even tho I’ve been using Vista for over 9 months.

taskbar shuffle

Posted by: pureessence on: November 1, 2007

I used to use a free software called task arrange for windows XP to rearrange my buttons in the taskbar. But the software does not work in Vista. I found another software named taskbar shuffle today that allows you to drag the buttons around in your taskbar. On top of that, it comes with two [...]

change double click folders from open to explore

Posted by: pureessence on: March 31, 2007

i just figured out something cool by playing around. when you double click on folders in windows xp, it opens the folder. personally i like it to open the folder with the explore view. apparently it’s quite easy to change that. Select Folder Options from the Tools menu in My Computer or Explorer, and click [...]

shorten right click -> new list

Posted by: pureessence on: March 31, 2007

i’ve heard about tweak UI – a free microsoft powertool for a while but never tried it out. i did today and there are two things i was able to customize that made my day. first i was able to choose which application it will use to view source in internet explorer. i was able [...]


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