Category: Simple How Tos

Microsoft Outlook doesn’t a any built-in way to display the number of selected emails in a folder.  As a workaround, you can do the following:  November 2023MS Outlook 365

While using MS Windows, you can occasionally encounter situation where an application window is completely or partially off-screen and there is no obvious way to move it back to where it should be. This is especially common when dealing with multiple monitors or switching between remote desktop and local sessions.

Windows File Explorer has some (very limited) capacity to batch rename files. Simply select multiple files, right click on the first one and click Rename. All files will be renamed to your entered string, adding incremental numbers at the end. If you need more flexibility you should look into third party software. There are number of free…

Windows 10 Technical Preview File Explorer by default opens in Quick Access view. You can easily change this and make it open in This PC (Previously known as My Computer) view.

If you live outside the US and installed Windows 10 Technical Preview, you may be disappointed when Microsoft’s new virtual assistant Cortana greets you with following message: I’m afraid I’m not available to help in your region. Hopefully Cortana will be supported in a variety of regions and languages on release, but as of now it only works in…

When you download any file with Google Chrome and click on a little arrow down, one of the options is “Always open files of this type“. If you select this option, all files of that type will be automatically opened immediately after downloading. It may not be immediately obvious how to reverse this option and…

Even if you select CD/DVD drive as your first boot device, Acer XC600 will simply ignore this and boot from the internal hard drive. To boot from CD or USB drive on Acer XC600 and similar Windows 8 machines you need to make 2 additional changes in BIOS.  

In Windows 7, if you are in a folder that was made available offline, you can always see Work offline button on the top toolbar. This allows to force working offline even when you are connected to the server. Very useful if connection is slow or unstable. Similarly, if you are working offline, the above…

When you first connect to a new network, Windows 8 prompts what type of network it is. If you later want to change this connection from Public to Private (or other way around) perform following steps:

Normally on a new Windows 7 installation start menu search works instantly, but with time it’s getting slower and slower. This is because start menu searches not only for programs, but also for documents in your libraries, emails, Internet history, etc. If you only use start menu search to find and launch applications you can…

Some applications add addition button to make window stay always on top not allowing other open windows to cover it.This useful feature can be added to almost any application windows via third party tools. One of them is freeware FileBox eXtender. You can download it from here or directly from developer’s site. This utility adds…

Open Internet Explorer and go to Tools > Internet Options In Browsing History section click on Settings In Temporary Internet Files and History Settings window click View Objects