Add
a Videos link to the Start Menu
The Windows 7 Start Menu includes links to your
Pictures and Music folders, but not to your Videos folder. If you watch a lot
of videos and want a link to them on your Start Menu, here's what you can do:
Displaying the Videos folder on the Start
Menu.
1. Right-click the Start button and select
Properties.
2. On the screen that appears, go to the Start Menu
tab and click Customize.
3. In the dialog box that appears, scroll to the
bottom, look for the Videos section, select "Display as a link," and
click OK and then OK again.
If you'd prefer that Videos display as a menu, with
links to files and submenus, instead select "Display as a menu."
Windows Explorer is the heart and soul of the
Windows interface, and overall it works quite well. But you can make it better.
In order to select multiple files for an operation
such as copying, moving or deleting in Windows Explorer, you generally use the
keyboard and the mouse, Ctrl-clicking every file you want to select.
But if you're mouse-centric, there's a way to
select multiple files in Windows 7 using only your mouse, via check boxes. To
do it:
Selecting multiple files using your mouse and check
boxes.
1. In Windows Explorer, click Organize, and then
select "Folder and search options."
2. Click the View tab.
3. In Advanced Settings, scroll down and check the
box next to "Use check boxes to select items." Click OK.
4. From now on, when you hover your mouse over a
file in Windows Explorer, a check box will appear next to it; click it to
select the file. Once a file is selected, the checked box remains next to it;
if you uncheck it, the box will disappear when you move your mouse away.
Command prompt fans will welcome this tip. With it,
when you're in Windows Explorer, you can open a command prompt to any folder.
This tip does exactly what the To use it, hold down the Shift key and
right-click a folder, then choose "Open command window here" from the
context menu that appears. (Note that this tip doesn't work in the Documents
folder.)
Note: This tip relies on the Group Policy Editor,
which isn't available in some versions of Windows 7. Thus, this tip will not
work if you have the Home Premium, Starter, or Home Basic editions of Windows
7.
When you search through your PC from Windows
Explorer, you can see the most recent searches that have been performed. If you
share a PC and don't want others to see what you've searched for, you can turn
off the recent searches feature:
1. In the Start menu's Search box, type GPEDIT.MSC and press Enter to launch the Group Policy Editor.
Select "Enabled" to protect search
privacy.
2. Go to User
Configuration -->Administrative Templates -->Windows
Components -->Windows Explorer.
3. Double-click "Turn off display of recent
search entries in the Windows Explorer search box" and select Enabled from
the screen that appears. Then click OK. The recent searches feature will now be
turned off.
When you run Windows Explorer, it always opens to
the Libraries folder. That's fine if you use Microsoft's default file
organization, which designates Libraries as the overall container for your
folders.
But what if you don't? You might prefer to have
Windows Explorer open to Computer or any other folder you choose. Here's how to
do it:
Changing the default Explorer location.
1. Right-click the Windows Explorer icon on the
taskbar (it's the one that looks like a folder), and then right-click the
Windows Explorer icon from the context menu that appears and select Properties.
The Windows Explorer Properties dialog box appears.
2. You'll have to edit the Target field on the
Shortcut tab of this dialog box in order to change the default location at
which Explorer opens.
If you want Explorer to open to a specific folder,
simply enter the name of the folder, substituting your folder name for Folder,
below, like this:
%windir%\explorer.exe c:\<i>Folder</i>
So to open Explorer to the folder named Budget, you
would type this in the Target field:
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