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The thing that behaves strangely for my copy of Windows Vista is the ''Command prompt here'' trick always brings me to C:\windows\system32 instead of the directory I am working at. I am not too sure how Windows got lobotomized, but I ended up taking the good old Registry-hacking route in order to get my beloved and ugly Command prompt window. I ...

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.

I must be missing something, else I do not know why the Windows Security shortcut icon in the Start menu can only appear by manually placing in the Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ Explorer a DWORD parameter of NoNtSecurity.

Why did I not notice this fantistic gem of a tip in a CNet Asia newsletter I received back in 2002? (actually it was because my job was quite reliable in keeping me busy and bogged down) This feature has been existing since Windows NT days, yet Microsoft has opted for performance/memory over stability even up to current versions of Windows. They ...

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 ...