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Friday, May 18, 2007

Do you want quick access to your hidden icons on your system tray?

If you have multiple programs running in your Windows system tray and you get fed up trying to hit the "Reveal all" arrow on the far left of the tray, try hitting Win+B and then Enter.
Win+B activates the system tray and since the reveal all arrow is selected first a simple Enter will expand your system tray.
After you hit Win+B you can use the Right and Left arrow keys on your keyboard to cycle through the running programs, hit Enter for a double click effect or the AppsKey or Shift + F10 for right click menu.
I have some 30 small apps on my tray ( resource hog I know, but I use them all..) and having access to all those icons can be a pain, even more since I'm running an app that makes the Start bar transparent. So Win+B is a lifesaver..

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Looking for a way to recreate a folder structure in Windows ?

try this command in a DOS box :
XCOPY (source) (destination) /E /T
That is open a command promt by hitting Win+R ( Run menu ) and giving CMD at the promt and Enter and on the command window.. well you can imagine the rest if you've gotten so far..
Don't forget to replace the
(source) and (destination) with your actual folder names, oh and don't try to create a loop by recreating the folder structure inside it.. it won't work anyway.. yeap, I actually did that by mistake..

Are you tired of your HP Pavillion quick launch buttons starting up the ugly media apps ?

Well then all you have to do is create an empty text file named empty.bat ( not empty.bat.txt, be aware ) open up "Control Panel", choose "HP Quick Launch Buttons" and on the first tab (Media) click the "Add" button next to the action button you want to reset. From there click the "Browse" button and point it to where you saved the empty.bat file. Oh, and don't forget to select the "Launch the media application listed below" tab.
That's about it. If you want to reset the action all you have to do is hit the "Delete" button next to the action you want to reset.
I hope this helps some of you that are annoyed by accidentally pressing them.