This is the twelfth post of our series of 15 posts about Tips and Tricks to make your Windows experience more satisfactory and comfortable. You can subscribe to our RSS Feed or daily e-mail updates for latest content. Keep checking back this space to know about useful Windows Tips and Tricks.

Here’s the today’s tweak.

Hide Common Tasks Pane in Explorer.

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This is the eleventh post of our series of 15 posts about Tips and Tricks to make your Windows experience more satisfactory and comfortable. You can subscribe to our RSS Feed or daily e-mail updates for latest content. Keep checking back this space to know about useful Windows Tips and Tricks.

Here’s the today’s tweak.

Make All Programs list Single Paned Scrolling List

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This is the tenth post of our series of 15 posts (one post everyday) about Tips and Tricks to make your Windows experience more satisfactory and comfortable. You can subscribe to our RSS Feed or daily e-mail updates for latest content. Keep checking back this space to know about useful Windows Tips and Tricks.

Here’s the today’s tweak.

How to Hide Notification Area and Clock from Taskbar?

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This is a very common problem faced by many of us that whenever we double click on a drive or a folder, a search window appears. Many people thought that the only solution to this is to re-install the operating system but no its not. I have a very simple solution to your problem. Just follow the following steps.

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Working on a Windows XP workstation is a nice experience but some features of Windows make this experience annoying. Today I will tell you those top annoyances that every XP user faces but mearly makes an effort to remove them.

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What you do when you have to search the web using Google search engine ? Very obvious!! If you are a Firefox 3 user you’ll type the query in the search box provided next to the location bar. But what you do when you want to see the results from Wikipedia ?? Again very obvious, you click the search box logo and select Wikipedia from the pull-down list of search engines and then type your query into the search box and hit enter. Very simple but quite time consuming !! Ain’t that?? If you feel so then I bet, this article will be very beneficial for you.

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I have multiple Yahoo accounts and I always wished to use Yahoo Messenger with all these different accounts logged in at the same time on same machine. A couple of moments back I was messing up with my computer registry to get it done and finally I came up with a solution
( better say two solutions ).

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Sometimes it happens that file and folder names are not visible in thumbnails view of any drive in windows. The general reason explained for this by many people is some problem in windows. But it is totally wrong. It is just an option available in windows with which one can show or hide filenames in thumbnails view. Lets see how we can change the option.

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Formatting your USB flash drive to NTFS is just like a child’s play. Just follow the undergiven steps to perform the formatting.

1. Click Start menu.
2. Right click My Computer and select Manage.
3. Double click the Device Manager and find your USB drive under the “Disk Drives” heading.
4. Right click the drive and select Properties.
5. Click Policies tab and select the “Optimize for performance” option.
6. Click OK.
7. Open My Computer.
8. Select Format on the flash drive.
9. Choose NTFS in the File System dropdown box.
10. Device Formatting is completed.

Visual Subst is a little nifty utility for windows that lets you convert your folders into virtual drives. By converting your most accessed folders to virtual drives, you will have a single click access to your favorite folders.

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