If you frequently modify a particular file or directory on your Windows XP system, that file or directory may become fragmented more quickly than other files / directories on your hard drive. If so, while you can defragment the entire drive via a batch file, it may prove useful and quicker to just target the particular file / directory for defragmentation if it is changed often.
Defragmenting a single file or directory can be accomplished via the contig command, available from the Sysinternals site, part of Microsoft Technet.
Simply download the zip file contig.zip, unzip the contained executable to your main Windows directory, and you can defragment an often-changed file via the command prompt:
contig FILENAME
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Normally, Mozilla Firefox will attempt to save files downloaded from the Internet to the Desktop. If you'd rather store files in a folder of your choosing, perform the following tip:
1. First, either find or create the folder where you want downloads to be stored.
2. From Firefox, click "Tools" - "Options".
3. When the "Options" dialog box appears, click the "Main" button.
4. Underneath "Downloads", click the radio button "Save files to".
5. Click the "Browse" button, and then when the "Browse for folder" dialog box appears, choose the folder you found or created in step 1.
Saving all files downloaded via Firefox to the C:\DOCS folder
6. When done, click "OK" on the dialog boxes to close t |
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Depending on your Windows Vista Start Menu configuration, to access Administrative Tools such as the Reliability and Performance Monitor, you must either type the name of the tool into the Start Menu's search box, or first access the Control Panel and then the Administrative Tools section.
With a simple tweak you can place a link to an expanding Administrative Tools menu directly on the Start Menu, as well as a link from the "All Programs" menu.
A link to the Administrative Tools directly from the Windows Vista Start Menu
1. Right-click an empty area of the Windows Taskbar and choose "Properties".
2. When the "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" multi-tabbed dialog box appears, click the "Start Menu" tab.
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By default, Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 expects to open and save presentation files in your default Documents folder, which on Windows Vista is normally C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\Documents\. This keeps your presentation files in the same folder where, by default, word processing, spreadsheet, and other Office files are stored.
If desired, this location can be changed if you want to keep presentation files in a separate folder.
1. Click the "Office" button.
2. When the popup appears, click "PowerPoint Options".
3. The "PowerPoint Options" dialog box appears. Select "Save" in the left pane.
4. In the right pane, next to "Default file location", enter in your desired folder. Note that you will not get to see a folder dialog box, so this pa |
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Normally in Windows Vista, to switch focus from one window to another, you must click on the window to switch focus to with the mouse. In some computing environments, however, focus automatically switches between windows just by hovering over them with the mouse pointer.
Windows Vista, through its accessibility tools, offers this same feature, which can be a time-saver if you have multiple tiled windows open simultaneously.
1. Click on the Start button and type in ease of access
2. The "Ease of Access Center" link should appear. Click it.
3. When the "Ease of Access Center" dialog box appears, scroll down to "Explore all settings" and click "Make the mouse easier to use".
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