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If you are like me who tend to keep lots of Zip archives lying around, then you have been experienced the increasing aggravation of Explorer slowly trying to peruse the contents of zip files lying in a directory as you expand it. Nothing brings Explorer to a standstill like a collection of Zips standing in the hundreds of MBs to GBs ...

For those possessing obssessive compulsive disorder to arrange everything into place, including the task slots in the Windows taskbar, the ability to extend that habit is now available.

One of the annoying features of Windows XP's WE is its assumption it has a holy duty to report the Duration and Dimension details of every single vidoe file whenever it (or rather, you) traverses into a directory chock full of them. This slows down the system considerably to extract information one wouldn't need 99.99% of the time.And by ''holy ...

(Even when I know hordes of others have documented this tip elsewhere in the Internet, but it's easier to record here for future reference). Windows Explorer by default launches up with its directory view pointed at My Documents. This somewhat makes the specific My Documents folder on the desktop pointless. My preferred view since Windows 95 has ...