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How to hide drive-letters from the Send To menu in Windows Vista
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
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In article Hide drives from the Send To menu in Windows XP, we saw how to hide drive-letters from the Send To menu and in Explorer. This article describes how to accomplish the same under Windows Vista.
How to open an elevated Command Prompt in Windows Vista
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This article describes different ways to open an elevated Command Prompt window.
How to remove or modify the Shortcut overlay in Windows 7 and Vista
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This article describes how to remove or modify the overlay (arrow) shown for Shortcuts in Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
Is the text appearing blurry in your CRT monitor? If so, you may try disabling ClearType smoothing option using the steps below. ClearType works especially well on LCD monitors.
How to change or add OEM logo in the Performance Information and Tools applet in Windows Vista
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This article describes how to add OEM logo to the Performance Information and Tools applet in Windows Vista.
How do you clear the Desktop Background "Picture Location" History in Windows Vista
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This article explains how to clear the Desktop Background "Picture Location" History in Windows Vista.
Restore missing Desktop (create shortcut) link to your SendTo folder in Windows Vista
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The SendTo folder in my user account is empty. This may have happened after using a junk cleaner application. I made a shortcut of the Desktop folder and put in there. Problem is, anything I send to the Desktop shortcut, is not made into a shortcut, but the whole file or folder is sent to the desktop. Any way to fix this?
How to hide the "Delete" command from Recycle Bin context menu in Windows Vista
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In article 141, we saw how to restore the Recycle Bin icon to the Desktop in Windows Vista. This article tells you how to hide the Delete command from the Context Menu of the Recycle Bin, and replace it with Search... command. This is a counter-measure to prevent accidental deletion of the Recycle bin icon from the Desktop in Windows Vista.
How to restore the Recycle bin icon that has been accidentally deleted
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This article describes how to restore the Recycle Bin icon that has been deleted accidentally. This article applies to Windows Vista.
How to Clear Past Items from the Notification Area in Windows Vista
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This article describes how to clear the Past Items list in the Customize Notifications window.
File names may be hidden when the view option of a folder is set to Icons in Windows Vista
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On some of the folders, if I set the contents to be shown as an icon (Small, Medium or Large icons), file names are not shown under the icon.
Shell folders are displayed with the standard folder icon in Windows Vista
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When you open Windows Explorer, the shell folders such as Documents and Pictures may be displayed with a standard folder icon rather than the special folder icon.
The Run dialog box in the Start menu stores the list of more recently used (MRU) commands typed earlier. This article describes how to clear the Run MRU entries.
Disabling Fast User Switching in Windows Vista.

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