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I would like to know how I can set up a default folder in windows 7 when opening up Office workbooks. If I open up Excel 2010, It defaults to to My Documents. However, if I click on a folder "Fixed Assets" to open up a workbook, Excel looks at the latest folder when wanting to open up...

When I open a window (let's say Firefox for example) then open a second Firefox window, the second window appears about a centimeter to the right of the first one. For certain tasks I do, this is quite annoying. How can I make Windows open instances directly on top of one another?

ok.. I have Win 7 Ultimate on Drive A Win 8 on Drive B Win 7 Premium on Dive C (just installed) during install.. all is fine, after 1st reboot, i see the win 7 boot menu... showing Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 7 Ultimate finished installing.. reboot again Win7 Ultimate boot option is gone...

Hi Any one know how to set 'size all columns to fit' as default in Windows 7 Explore ?

I have a few small .exe files that I received by e-mail. When I click on them to install the program I get a message saying Windows is preventing running the file for security reasons. I know the file is free of viruses and want to install it. I am told there is a setting somewhere to turn this...

Built new puter and installed Windows 7 Pro.....backed up old system before system went south (had Vista on it)...had been using Mozilla Thunderbird........backed up profiles (including old mails, as far as I know) specifically.......both system back and profile backup on external drive on new...

I have a situation where I need to run Windows Live Mail in the OFFLINE mode (I'm connected to the internet, but away from my ISP), and the Internet Explorer on ONLINE mode. However, when I change one of them, the other one changes as well. Is there any way to separate them?

I have a Samsung TFT monitor with resolution 1920x1080 which is connected by HDMI cable. Assume I open a couple of windows (IntExp, WinExplorer, notepad,...). Now (e.g.late in the evening) I turn off manually physically (only) the TFT monitor to save power but let the computer continue run...

I have 2 files with different extensions, they must reference each-other with the same name but windows 7 renames the files because they are the same. How to disable this setting? Thanks.

When I go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Notification Area Icons dialog then there are a lot of programs which are already uninstalled. How can I cleanup/delete all these useless entries? How can I delete ONE single entry manually? Second question: Assume I want to hide icons and...

( Now Solved ) I've set up Outlook 2007 to compose new mails in HTML which works fine when using the New Mail button but when I try to send a file by right-clicking it and choosing Send to Mail Recipient it defaults to plain text and I have to manually select HTML in the Options tab on the...

Okay so i tried everything to get my .php open in notepad again. the thing i have done Control Panel\Programs\Default Programs\Set Associations and. Control Panel\Programs\Default Programs\Set Default Programs NotePad isn't in the Second one

I have a shortcut in my start menu to a file Putty.exe that is in the directory K:\Putty\, where K is a server. Every single time I click on this link I get a warning that says "The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?" and every single time I click "Run."...

Firstly, hello to all here.. very useful forum with plenty of extremely useful information.. I recently rescued a SSD that had seemingly failed, unfortunately i lost all data & my OS (which had to be re-installed) on my one remaining HDD until i did some research & repaired the problem. Would...

I'm currently running windows 7 home premium, 64 bit. A few days ago, I hopped into my cmd prompt to find that instead of the usual "Microsoft windows 7 [version 6.1 etc etc]" copyright notice, it just says "you lose". I'm guessing this is a prank one of my mates pulled, but I can't figure out...

Hi, I have been on the edge of chucking my computer out the window for hours, and the only support I get from colleagues in my masters program is "Get a mac!" Anyway, yesterday I was working on something in CodeBlocks and when I went to build my project, I got stuck in a loop of "this project...

Hi Until recently my computer would open image files with Adobe Photoshop and Preview them using Windows Photo Viewer. This is the way it has worked in Windows 7 as long as I have been using it. This worked great because Photo Viewer open almost instantly and Photoshop takes forever! About a...

I am using Windows 7 and Office 2010. I would like to know how I can set up a default folder when opening up my Excel Files Your assistance in this regard will be most appreciated

I am the sole user of my computer and log on as the Preferred User. Whenever I want to open My Documents, My Pictures, etc., I have to first select Desktop, then Preferred User (I am the ONLY user and I have already logged in as the PREFERRED USER), then have to select I My Documents, etc. Is...

I have a computer with three partitions, the first with 100GB exclusively to Windows 7 (already installed), a partition for applications and another partition for personal files (photos, text, music, movies, etc.). I wonder how to configure the location of "My Documents", so that all users...