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Here’s a question I’m asked extremely often: "I’m the only user of my PC. How can I avoid having to type a password every time Windows Vista starts up?" The answer is simplicity itself. Click the Start button and in the search box type control userpasswords2, then press Enter. Enter your credentials if the User…

Maybe I missed this enhancement when it first appeared, but I just discovered that Windows Vista has a neat little feature that ‘automagically’ heals broken shortcuts. So, if you create a shortcut to a file or program in Windows Vista, then subsequently move that file or program link, the shortcut will be automatically updated to…

If you read your RSS feeds in Outlook 2007 and, let’s face it, why wouldn’t you, you may be pleased to learn how easy it is to share a feed with a friend. Simply right-click on any feed entry and choose Share this Feed: Outlook will instantly create a new email for you complete with…

Are you a victim of an inadvertent ‘Reply to All’ gaffe? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Every day, thousands of people unwittingly share their most intimate thoughts with complete strangers. And it’s all thanks to that pesky ‘Reply to All’ button in Microsoft Outlook. Thankfully, there is a cure. The NEW "UsefulTechnology Gaffe Destroyer™ (Patent-Pending)"…

Here’s a super time saver for Outlook. Whenever you need to go to your inbox (if you’re like me that happens about 3,000 times a day) just hit: SHIFT + CTRL + I That’s it! It works from any view in Outlook.

I wrote recently and more recently about the clever promotion that BigPockets.co.uk was running to help clear out the slow moving stock from its warehouses. When the chance came up for me to order my own Bag o’ Crap (or Bag o’ Crap 2 to be precise) I didn’t hesitate. The mystery package arrived yesterday.…

Fussy copywriters like me can be sent into a rage by the smallest grammatical slip-ups. Years ago, in a previous job, my team referred to me as ‘Mr Em Dash’ in recognition of my obsession with transforming the many inappropriate hyphens that blighted our copy into more attractive em dashes. To punctuate copy correctly you…

Hot off the press (or whatever the digital equivalent of a printing press is), you can now download the freshly updated Windows Product Guide, complete with details of the improvements made in Service Pack 1. The guide is worth downloading, if only for the comprehensive feature comparison charts that help explain the differences between the…

If you write a long e-mail, sometimes it’s a nice idea to add jump links to help people navigate to the content that’s most relevant to them. Say, for example, you write an e-mail about the three things you did on holiday, you could add a jump link to take your reader straight to each…

The clipboard is a wonderful thing. Every time you copy (CTRL+C) or cut (CTRL+X) any information on your monitor, it is temporarily stored in the clipboard ready to be pasted back when needed. And while working in Microsoft Office applications you can even display the Clipboard at the side of the screen by clicking the…