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	<title>The Winhelponline Blog &#187; Windows Vista</title>
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	<description>Troubleshooting Windows 7/XP/Vista, Fixes &#38; Tweaks &#124; General Productivity Tips</description>
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		<title>How to Add &#8220;Merge (as User)&#8221; Right-Click Menu Option for REG Files</title>
		<link>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/merge-as-user-right-click-menu-reg-files/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When logged on to an administrator account in a Windows Vista or Windows 7 PC and attempt to merge a .REG file, you&#8217;ll see the User Account Control (UAC) prompt asking for your consent to allow the process to start. Regedit.exe uses the highestavailable execution level (as specified in its manifest) and thus it prompts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Preview Available for Certain Files in Zip Folder View in Windows 7 and Vista</title>
		<link>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/no-preview-available-certain-files-zip-folder-view-windows-7-vista/</link>
		<comments>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/no-preview-available-certain-files-zip-folder-view-windows-7-vista/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/?p=1002</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently when browsing a Compressed (zipped) Folder containing some JPG images, I observed that the preview pane displayed the message &#34;No Preview Available&#34; when selecting an image file. However, preview worked fine if the files were extracted to a folder and then viewed from there.

Fig 1: Compressed (Zipped) Folder View
I extracted the images to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fix for Desktop Icons Layout Not Getting Saved Upon Restarting Windows</title>
		<link>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fix-desktop-icons-layout-not-saved-restart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fix-desktop-icons-layout-not-saved-restart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/?p=984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows saves the desktop icon layout when the user logs off, and the setting is read during logon. Recently I came across a case where the desktop icons rearrange to their default positions after a restart or logoff/logon cycle. This turned out to be a Permissions issue with a registry key, which kept Windows from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Enable or Disable Thumbnail Previews Quickly Using Right-Click Menu in Windows Vista and Windows 7</title>
		<link>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/toggle-thumbnail-previews-right-click-menu-windows-vista-windows-7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/toggle-thumbnail-previews-right-click-menu-windows-vista-windows-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[scripts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/?p=974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you had disabled thumbnail previews in Windows Explorer for performance, but want to have a means of enabling or disabling thumbnail previews in a jiffy, here is a solution for you. To enable or disable thumbnail previews in Windows Vista and Windows 7, you normally click on the Organize button in the folder view, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right-Click Context Menu Turns Ugly Classic After Installing a Program in Windows 7 or Vista</title>
		<link>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/right-click-context-menu-ugly-classic-windows-7-vista/</link>
		<comments>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/right-click-context-menu-ugly-classic-windows-7-vista/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/?p=968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another context menu saga. After installing Notepad++ (a free Notepad alternative, version 5.5.1 as of this writing) in a Windows 7 computer, the context menu turned ugly with a classic look.

After removing &#34;Edit with Notepad++&#34; from the right-click menu, by deleting the following registry branch:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ * \ shellex \ ContextMenuHandlers \ Notepad++
It now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;This Computer&#8217;s Video Card Can&#8217;t Play Themes&#8221; Message in WLPG Screensaver Settings Dialog</title>
		<link>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/this-computers-video-card-cant-play-themes-wlpg-screensaver-settings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/this-computers-video-card-cant-play-themes-wlpg-screensaver-settings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/?p=967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you open the Windows Live Photo Gallery Screensaver settings dialog, theme controls may be missing and the message &#34;This computer&#8217;s video card can&#8217;t play themes&#34; is displayed. You might be knowing that the themes in Windows Photo Gallery slideshow as well as in Windows Live Photo Gallery screensaver won&#8217;t be enabled if the Graphics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Restore .BKF Files Using NTBackup in Windows 7 and Windows Vista</title>
		<link>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/restore-bkf-file-ntbackup-windows-7-vista/</link>
		<comments>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/restore-bkf-file-ntbackup-windows-7-vista/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/?p=959</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are so many users who back up their data using the NTBackup Tool in Windows XP, then clean install/upgrade to Windows 7 or Windows Vista and later realize that Windows 7/Vista do not include the NTBackup Tool to restore the image. Also, Microsoft haven&#8217;t released the NT Backup Restore Utility for Windows 7 yet [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fix for Event Log Service Startup Error 1079</title>
		<link>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fix-event-log-service-error-1079/</link>
		<comments>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fix-event-log-service-error-1079/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Windows XP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Error Messages]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/?p=935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you start the Event Viewer, the following error message may be shown.
Event Log service is unavailable. Verify that the service is running.

Any attempts to start the Event Log service results in the following error:
Windows could not start the Windows Event Log service on Local Computer.Error 1079: The account specified for this service is different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using the Mouse to Copy Command Prompt Text to Clipboard</title>
		<link>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/using-mouse-copy-cmd-prompt-text-clipboard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/using-mouse-copy-cmd-prompt-text-clipboard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/?p=927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A useful tip for mousers. Earlier we saw how to copy Command Prompt output to the Windows Clipboard. Did you know that you can accomplish the same using your pointing device (mouse)? Also, you can select a particular section (word or line) and copy it to the Clipboard. Here is how to do so.
1. Create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vize GUI Enhancer for Windows Vista Replaces Non-Vista Icons</title>
		<link>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/vize-gui-enhancer-replaces-non-vista-icons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/vize-gui-enhancer-replaces-non-vista-icons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows Vista]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utilities]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/?p=923</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many dialog boxes in Windows Vista include outdated (non-Vista) icons. This clearly is one of the UI aspects that Microsoft has overlooked. This is non-fatal and purely a cosmetic thing, but if you&#8217;re a perfectionist and want to replace Windows Vista icons in place of the outdated icons, then take a look at the freeware [...]]]></description>
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