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Mark compressed folders with colours
Compressed folders in the Windows explorer can be displayed in colours to make these folders easier recognizable as compressed. To activate this option, go to 'Tools' and choose "Folder options". Now check the item "show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color" in the tab "View".


Convert .OGG music files to .MP3
Ogg Vorbis is a free multimedia file format. It can compress audio files with higher encoding quality at a smaller filesize then mp3, but is not yet supported by all players. But there are some converter programs available that can convert / transcode the sound files into MP3 more...


Disable error reporting
If you would like to deactivate the error reporting to Microsoft after software breakdowns, go to "Control panel" and choose "System". Open the "Advanced" tab and choose "Error reporting". Here you can check the option "Disable error reporting".


Copy printer into "Send to" menu
within Win95/98/ME it is possible to simply copy targets into the right mouse click "Send to" menu. In order to be able to print a document out of the Windows explorer quickly, you have to create a new folder within the folder "c:/windows/send to" and name it: printer.{2227a280-3aea-1069-a2de-08002b30309d}. The part of the name in front of the dot (here printer) can be chosen individually.





Expanding the quick start task bar does not work
In the taskbar's submenu (right mouse click on taskbar) you can remove the check mark from "lock the taskbar". Now it is possible to remove or copy new shortcuts to software or documents into the quick start task bar.


Saving lost digital images
To prevent new digital images from disappearing or being unintentionally deleted, photos should not be deleted directly in the camera and instead downloaded on the computer first. If the image is actually gone though, these programs try to recover it. more...


Switching off desktop cleaning
A right mouse click on the desktop opens the desktop menu. Under "Properties/desktop/customize desktop" you can activate or deactivate the option of desktop cleaning. This function usually deletes barely used shortcuts every 60 days.


Hide your documents

To hide your documents in a folder, right-click on a document, select "properties" and there "hidden". Unfortunately, these method is not really secure, because with a click on "tools/folder options" in a folder-menu, there at "view/hide files and folders". the hidden document can be made visible again.