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It is advised that Windows 8 Refresh your PC system repair utility should only be used when your system doesn’t respond properly and shows unexpected fatal exceptions. Ever wanted to reset Windows 7 without losing personal data? Between a factory reset and a reinstall, it was tough. Since Windows 8, we have two new options: Refresh. Apologetics: The two main problems I had coming up with this solution were. I couldn't find a straightforward way to export environment variables from a vbs script.

Windows brings up a matching list as I. Enter. I don’t even have to type the beginning of the file name. It. does seem that the first time I open a given file, it doesn’t come up. I can. create a second instance by shift- clicking the taskbar icon.

Run a Command with Elevated Privilege. Assuming you have UAC. The UAC. dialog appeared (“Do you want to allow the following program to make. I answered Yes, but.

I had insufficient privilege. To get elevated privilege truly, you have to Ctrl+Shift- click the shortcut. Ctrl and Shift keys, click the. I’ve no idea why there are two routes to get elevated. Windows 7 Home Premium. Bizarre! Startup File for the Command Prompt.

If you want some commands to execute automatically every time. Then open. regedit and navigate toor(Use HKLM to make the change for all users, or HKCU for just the. Create the value as a string and set it to. That shortcut should go in.

Explorer’s location bar) contains items that appear. All Programs list in every user’s start menu. An easy way. to get to this folder is to click the start button, right- click.

Games are an exception. For games, right- click the Games item. Don’t have a Games item? Usually I’m a fan of Registry hacks instead of separate. I prefer the utilities. Trim Bloated Menus.

Explorer’s menu and. So I take the second choice, click OK. I wanted to see in the first place. Thanks to. Skip the Annoying “Use the Web service to find the correct program” Dialog. Windows jump right to the list of. Starting with XP, and continuing.

Windows 7, ABC1. 0 now sorts after ABC2. Some people like that, but I prefer a strict.

A simple Registry edit controls this behavior. Open. regedit and navigate to. HKEY. Set it to 1 to make file and folder names sort. Windows 7. default way. Instead of. painstakingly resizing each one, press.

Ctrl+< Numpad+> —that’s the Ctrl key and. This works in Windows Explorer and also in a wide range of. In Windows 7, the.

Show the Full File Names. By default, Windows strips off . TXT, . EXE, . DOCX, and such.

Explorer displays to you. This. brings up a dialog.

Select the View tab. Locate “Hide extensions for known file types”. Click OK. I saved a File to C: \ and Now It’s Not There! You don’t actually have privilege to write to the root.

C: drive, so if a program tries to do it you will probably find. Click the start button and paste that location. Windows 7 lets you remap keys through the. System Registry, just as Windows XP did. But. it’s easier to use the free program. Auto. Hotkey. So I chose to apply a Registry edit that changes. Caps Lock to Shift from the moment Windows boots.

For. example, Alt+0. Unicode character 0. Press and hold the Alt key, press and release the. Unicode (not necessarily on the keypad, and. Alt key. For. example, Alt< +> 4.

This edit is effective. Remember, use decimal values with leading zeroes.

There are other possibilities. Some applications have “Rich Edit Controls” and can enter.

Unicode characters with multi- key sequences. For instance, in.

Word you can press Ctrl+apostrophe and then e to get an acute e (. If. you use an application frequently, check its help file; or check. Rich Edit Shortcut Keys.

Microsoft site and test whether the key. Some free applications like. All. Chars will let you extend its definitions by. The excellent multitasker. Unicode characters. Microsoft Office and some other applications contain. Use Applications or Web Sites.

It gets no respect, but Character Map is actually pretty. In older Windows, it’s in the Accessories program group in. Start menu; in Windows 7 and later, you can find it by searching. CHAPMAP. With set to. On the other hand, with set. Unicode character’s. However you find your character, double- click it and it.

Repeat for more. characters if you want, then click . Paste the. characters into your document, usually with Ctrl+V<. The Web site. copypastecharacter. Unicode Subrange idea of Character Map, but since the. Click a. character to copy, Alt+click for multple. Missing Keys? Use OSKMy Dell laptop unaccountably is missing the Pause/Break key as.

Scroll Lock. I clicked one link carelessly last week, and. Of course you have antivirus and antispyware.

It has excellent step- by- step. Windows 7, Vista, or XP. By the way, it doesn’t matter which browser you use. The. HOSTS file works at the level of Windows that all Internet access. Turn Wireless On or Off.

Every laptop has its own special key combination to enable or. One contains this. It obviously takes longer to index the contents of files than. Free Pretty Amazing Grace Download Amazon here. Dbz Devolution Side Stories Hacked Arcade more.

Set the radio button at the bottom for. Computer Wakes Unexpectedly. You get up to get a cup of coffee, and you get distracted by.

No problem, you think, my computer will just go to. But two hours later, when you return, it’s wide awake and. Or, you click  ». Well, thanks to this. How To Prevent Your Computer From Waking Up Accidentally. A Windows program called Trusted. Installer. exe. goes of looking for solutions.

On the Disk tab, look at the. Trusted. Installer. If it’s. there and using a lot of disk accesses, bingo! To fix this, open Action Center and wait long enough for.

Windows to find (or more likely, fail to find) solutions to your. On my computer, this took several minutes.

In the radio buttons, select. Each time a problem occurs, ask me before checking”, or. Never check for solutions”. Curb Unneeded Services. This topic got much too long for this collection of short tips. Curb Unneeded Services in Windows 7. System Configuration“God Mode”There are lots and lots of configuration dialogs in.

Windows 7. They’re not all in Control Panel, and just. Well, you can create one. Sweep the following line with your mouse and press Ctrl+C for. Enter, press Ctrl+V for paste.

Windows removes the long CLSID and leaves just the name you gave. Windows also gives the folder a special icon. Now when you double- click that folder you have skillions of. The How- To Geek explains why this works, and. CLSIDs, in. Enable the Secret “How- To Geek” Mode in Windows 7. Renove Unwanted System Fonts. Of course you want to keep some of the system fonts.

But, for. English- language users, system fonts like Che Dotum and Batang are. But there’s no knowing whether Microsoft will start up. If you prefer, an. Windows is available.

Sometimes a search drowned me. I tried to find what a folder called. Desktop Icons” was doing on my desktop), but usually I.

I needed relatively quickly. Here are some useful Web sites I discovered in my searches.

I’ve returned to: Lately it seems Windows Updates cause more problems. Microsoft is now installing via updates, or the nags to install. Windows 1. 0. Woody Leonhard has a long history. Windows Updates, and the problematic updates are. But this later book, though. I expected. I had turned first.

Permissions and Security” chapter for help in. UAC and the issue of elevating privilege. In the first few. I found nothing that wasn’t obvious from booting and. It had none of what I was looking for: advice. Windows that had been preinstalled on my.

Help with the Command Line. In theory, you can get help on commands by typing.