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    - Why does it take so long until the system reacts to sleeping or hibernation request? My system recently developed a very nasty habit, namely that when I press the button to sleep or hibernate, it takes "forever" (i.e. up to 3 minutes!) until the system finally indeed goes asleep, or hiberates, resp. What is even more annoying is, that it apparently buffers multiple requests, i.e. if I "dare" to press sleep/hibernate again during that time, then - when I woke it up again - it will almost immediately sleep/hibernate again and this as often as I pressed the key. I recently had to wake it up 4 times, since I apparently pressed "hibernate" that often until if finally reacted. I find this whole behavior most infuriating! First: what could cause the system to take that long to react to a sleep/hibernate request? Ist there some "force"-option or some timeout that one can reduce, such that no app or driver is ever allowed to block a system's sleep/hibernation sequence for more than, say, 5 seconds at most? And second: can one somehow tweak the system to NOT buffer additional sleep/hibernation requests while it already is in the sequence? Michael Tag: Common Places Tag: 154638
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    - Why does the Search dialog always take so long to appear??? When I right-click on a drive or directory and select "Search..." it always takes up to a minute (usually about 1/2 min.) until the search dialog finally shows up. I find this extremely annoying! Why is this taking so long? What is the system doing during that time? Is there some option, tweak or something that one could try to reduce this time? Michael Tag: Common Places Tag: 154637
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    - xp transition effects enabling automatically for some reason, the transition effects keep enabling automatically i think in the last hour it has done it 4 times i turn it off, then maybe 10 minutes later i notice the way the windows move that it's enable again and sure enough it is i disable it and maybe 10-15 min later it's enabled again very annoying...can't figure out what could be causing it Tag: Common Places Tag: 154636
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    - compare virtuawin and Virtual Desktop Manager powertoy has some one used virtuawin. how does it compare to the virtual desktop powertoy. http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ Tag: Common Places Tag: 154635
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    - Folder Icon change glitch Hi, I would like to change all of my folder icons to a new icon. I discovered there are 2 entries in the folder options/file types dialog and only one of them allows for changing the icon. I would like both to use the new icon. Additionally, when I changed the folder icon and clicked the box to have it apply to all sub-folders, it didn't apply it. Your help in fixing this is appreciated. Sue Tag: Common Places Tag: 154632
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    - Properties Customizing in "windows explorer" can you help me? i have some office files with "builtinproperties" and "customproperties". my xp have italian language/ localization. Well, in my explorer view I can manage Title informations ("Titolo") correctly, but i cannot with Keywords ("Parole chiave") and Stato (it is a Customproperties, but I think its is default in Italian localization. thank you very much -- LB Tag: Common Places Tag: 154630
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    - hide taskbar Button item? Blackberry Desktop manager takes up unnecessary space on the taskbar. Any way to hide it permanently? TIA Tag: Common Places Tag: 154626
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    - Error Message 1913 When trying to Download Microsoft Updates, or Reinstall or Detect and Repair Microsoft Office 2003, or try to install Microsoft Office 2007, I recieve the following Error Message: "Error 1913: Setup Cannot update file C:\Windows\win.ini. Verify that the file exists in you system and that you have sufficient permissions to update it." When trying to work with Office 2003, or install Office 2007, the Install stops and the 1913 Error Message comes up at "File: Win.ini, Key: Mail, Item: CMCDLLNAME32, Value: mapi32.dll" The Problem only seems to occur when using Windows Installer with Microsoft Products. I can and have downloaded other products from the Internet with no problem. I have also tried using Safe Mode, as well as COMPLETLY Uninstalling Norton. I have sent a message to Microsoft, as well as finding a ton of Hot Fixes on their Web Site, but they all have disclaimers and I am a tad nervous about using them. I have also searched the Web and found this error all over it, but so far no real answers. Microsoft Office 2003 is also acting very weird, however I am afraid to uninstall it for fear I cannot install 2007 and will end up with neither. Thanks in advance, The Genester Tag: Common Places Tag: 154625
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    - Search opens when selecting My Computer in Start Menu Customized Preference in XP set to: Start Menu -> My Computer -> Display as Menu When I left click on the C: drive in the "My Computer" menu, a search window opens instead of exploring the C: drive. This started happening after a "windows update" Right clicking on the C: drive lists (in this order) Search . . . Open Explore, etc. I want to left click the C: drive to open the drive without going through the additional steps. How do I keep the search window from opening in the Start Menu when I only want to explore the C: drive? Tag: Common Places Tag: 154623
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    - 2 part question: Other name of SYSTRAY, & need BAT or SCRIPT Hello, I have a video game that will only run if I shut down all the SYSTRAY and EXPLORER.EXE processes, so I've been told by Tech Support. The first question is this: If you look at the running processes, what is the actual IMAGE NAME of SYSTRAY? I don't see anything in there that says SYSTRAY. As I said earlier, the only way to make the game run is to delete all of the process except the aforementioned two. As you can imagine, it is very tedious to sit there and delete all of the undesired processes one-by-one. So my second question is this: Is there a way to write a BAT file so that I can get only the above mentioned processes to load? If you have a better idea on how to approach this (instead of using a BAT file), like a script (or whatever), I'm all ears. I have ADMIN rights to this PC, also, FWIW. Using XP Pro, SP2 on a 2006 Dell XPS600, with 256mb nVidia video card, with 1gb RAM. TIA. Tag: Common Places Tag: 154615
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    - desktop tab in display properties disappeared I went to change my wallpaper and I have no desktop tab any more. It's been awhile since I changed it, so I have no idea when it disappeared. I went to the regedit and went through all the sequences that was suggested to change the wallpaper, but I still don't have the tab. Any suggestions? Tag: Common Places Tag: 154612
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    - Windows Explorer Folder Icons I am sure this is somewhere within microsoft.com and perhaps the msdn network, but I have been looking for going on 4 hours now and have not found exactly what I am looking for. I know you can right click a folder and change its icon, however, the default icons use 2 - one for closed folder and one for opened folder. I assume it is in the registry somewhere. I didn't find any info on both states using the desktop.ini. How can I change the default folder icons to represent the 2 folder states, and perhaps even change the drive icons and so forth? Is there some documentation on this within the registry? Tag: Common Places Tag: 154607
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    - Question about Folder Views My default view in windows classic folders is the list view; however when I use the detailed view I would like to establish a few options (like name, artist and duration only) every time I open a folder and use the detailed view. When I tried to establish a detailed view for all folders in the folder options section, it changes all folders from the list view to the detailed view which I don't want to do. Any suggestions? Tag: Common Places Tag: 154606
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    - i have 2 gigs of ram installed but applications wont launch once 1 gig is used up. i have 2 gigs of ram installed but applications wont launch once 1 gig is used up. The performance monitor never shows more then 1 gig of memroy used up, yet applications wont launch when its near the 1 gig of used memory. how to free up that other gig so that I can use 2 gigs of ram instead of 1. Its like i have 2 gigs of ram and 1 gig is wasted. also, why dont applications launch? do i need to configure some swap space or something to ensure applications launch? Tag: Common Places Tag: 154593
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    - welcome screen issue I couldnt' see this option (Change the way users log on or off) in control panel-->user accounts to get the welcome screen i get the normal log on option Tag: Common Places Tag: 154591
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    - Desktop background - please help! Hi, I am having issues with my desktop background and could really use some advice. For a couple of months now I have been unable to change my background picture through display properties/desktop/browse (I am using Windows XP Home), but although baffling (it was fine one day, not working the next) it was not really a problem as I could right-click in explorer and then select "Set as desktop background". Now, however, this option is missing! It is still there when I right click a picture on a website, but not in explorer! I really hope someone can help, it's such a minor problem and yet I can't figure it out at all! Thanks :) Tag: Common Places Tag: 154583
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    - 2 monitors - second not displaying correctly I tried to set up a second screen onto my laptop today using and S-video to scart lead into and LCD television. However, the quality on the television is now really bad when running Windows. There is no colour, black and white only, and any programs i try to run or anything in general viewed on that screen is of bad quality. I was just wondering if anyone could help with regard to this. Tag: Common Places Tag: 154582
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    - Cannot save folder view I cannot save my folder view it seems: when I change certain options, like show file extensions, next time I logon it goes back to default. Could it be a group policy? Tag: Common Places Tag: 154581
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    - xp theme I decided some time ago to change my theme to classic. Now I want to change back to xp style and it's disappeared! I can't seem to find it anywhere. Could I have uninstalled it by accident? It isn't where it's supposed to be in the properties theme tab. I am stumped! Tag: Common Places Tag: 154576
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    - Explorer: show "View"->"explorer bar"->"tip of the day" by default Hi everyone, IÂ´d really like to have the window "tip of the day" open by default whenever I start the Windows Explorer. But whatever IÂ´ve tried, the next time I start WE, the window is closed and I have to manually open it again. Is there a way (maybe a registry hack or else) to make WE remember that? TIA, Dirk Tag: Common Places Tag: 154573
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    - Distribute "Regedit" Folder permissions Hello, I work at IT at my university and I need to employ a microsoft KB fix that requires me to go into REGEDIT and modify FOLDER PERMISSIONS on HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion \IniFileMappings\Control.ini per http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156677 Now, everytime I need to change a string on all the lab computers (around 300) I save my .reg file and run it on each individual PC as administrator. Is there something similar or a technique I can employ here to do what I need to do on the KB without much hassle on every computer (either manually doing it or redoing image are last resorts that I would like to avoid). I appreciate any help. Tag: Common Places Tag: 154571
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    - IE context menu 'copy to notepad" How can I make a IE context menu item 'copy to notepad', a command that copies selected text in IE to notepad which opens and displays this selected text ? Thanks! Tag: Common Places Tag: 154567
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    - web publishing wizard Hello all, I have a small question. I m trying to create a web publishing wizard for xp (and it works) but i would like to restrict the file format. So i've read the msdn and add a window.external.Property("UniqueExtensionN")=array(".jpg",".jpeg"); to my php script witch generate the wizard interface. And i add a "supportedtypes" = "*.jpg;*.jpeg" to my registry key but it doesn't work the wizard send any type of document to my server. How can i do ? i don't want to filter it on my server but on client-side. Thx by advance for your answers Tag: Common Places Tag: 154565
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    - Task Bar Clock My computer at work just started showing the day of the week on the second line instead of the date. I don't want the day of the week. I need the date and I don't want three lines in my task bar. My computer at home shows the time and date. I seem to remember there is a place where you can tell it what to show. How do I change it so it matches my computer at home? Tag: Common Places Tag: 154560
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    - Change Context Menu entries sequence Hi, Is there a way to change the sequence of the entries in the folder context menu? When I right click on a lowest level folder the first option is SEARCH. I would like it to be OPEN. Then double click would also open it Thanks Tag: Common Places Tag: 154550
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    - How do I disable CTRL+W in Internet Explorer? I never use CTRL+W to close all windows. I don't ever want to use it. When I press it by mistake it sometimes results in loss of whatever I've been working on, with no warning, and no recovery. Naturally, I want to disable this annoying shortcut. How can I do this? I've searched and cannot find anything that tells me how to do this (it even took a while before I found a reference to the CTRL+W shortcut!). Thanks in advance for any ideas. Tag: Common Places Tag: 154540
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    - Making icon background transparent for taskbar Hi, I have a custom icon I am using for an app in quick start and its background is presently white, so it is showing as a square. I would like to make it transparent for this purpose. which color do I need to make it (In RGB) thanks! Sue Tag: Common Places Tag: 154536
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    - Customizing Explorer sidebar Hi, I am wondering how to customize the shortcuts represented on the left side of explore windows? Thanks! Sue Tag: Common Places Tag: 154535
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    - msimn.exe problems When i want to connct to OE. i get offen error report; msimn.exe problem and must cut down. what can i do to help this problem, so it do not came any more? Varg Tag: Common Places Tag: 154532
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    - split dialog boxes on extended monitor Hi all, I added a second monitor, enabled the horizontal extended desktop, and now all my dialog boxes, and especially the logon UI are annoyingly split in the middle of both screens. Is there a way to fix this? thanks in advance! Tag: Common Places Tag: 154531
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    - Customizing Folders I had changed the icon for my personal folders to pictures of the folder contents. all of a sudden, the folder icon has reverted to the default. when i try to change it, it will show the picture, I click on apply, but the default is applied. how can I get around this. -- jobber1 Tag: Common Places Tag: 154530
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    - Theme Not Installing? I recently re-installed Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 onto my Dell XPS M140. I had previously had a Final Fantasy theme installed, mainly for the mouse and sounds because I have Windows Blinds for the rest. I just recently tried to install it again but nothing happens. It says it's installed, but the sounds aren't set, the mouse remains the same, and my screensaver doesn't change. Does anyone here know why this might be happening? Note: I also installed a lot of Stardock applications this time that I hadn't last time. Tag: Common Places Tag: 154525
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    - Can I display the full shortcut names on my desktop? Hi there I want to show the full names that I have given to my shortcuts on Windows XP desktop. At the moment they are cutting off at 18 characters. Thank you. Tag: Common Places Tag: 154521
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    - Change number of items displayed on Quick Launch Toolbar Hi, Could have sworn I found a menu allowing me to change the number of items displayed on the Quick Launch Toolbar, without using the "expand" arrow. Default is 3, but I'm pretty sure you can change it. Any ideas? Can't find any KB's or other info online. Thx. Lonpuz Tag: Common Places Tag: 154518
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    - configure windows explorer XP Pro How can I configure WE in XP Pro, so that it shows two panes- left- hand for showing tree-structure of drives and folders and right-hand for showing folders and files? I can configure WE by View-> Explorer Bar and select the Folders option, but I cannot save that configuration. When I close and reopen WE, it shows just the single pane view. :( If it helps, the computer is a PowerSpec from Microcenter.... Thanks in advance, Scott Tag: Common Places Tag: 154507
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    - Windows Loading Lag When I am loading Windows XP Pro, the blue screen that says "Windows is starting up . . ." and "Loading Your Personal Settings . . ." takes a very long time. By that, I mean the first screen takes 6-7 minutes to switch to the sedond one which takes another 2-3 minutes before my desktop finally starts to load. What would cause this and how do I fix it? Many thanks in advance! James Tag: Common Places Tag: 154506
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    - Explorer and Control Panel Is there a way to hide or remove the 'Control Panel' in the directory tree in Explorer? -- SoCalCommie http://so-la-i.com/ Tag: Common Places Tag: 154499
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    - Thumbnail View not working with video files I just recently built a new computer and installed Windows XP 64bit SP2. One of the problems I am having is that I liked being able to see thumbnails of my video files whether they be .avi, .mkv, .ogm, or .mp4. Though after transferring over all of my files I noticed that only a few .avi would still show a picture, but not all of them and especially none of the other formats. I am wondering if anyone might have a way to get around this problem since I never had it with 32bit windows. To give some basic info running 64bit XP with 4GB of ram, have WMP 10 installed by default, but use Combined Community Codec Package to watch my video files. Any help would be nice. -- Calvin Tag: Common Places Tag: 154496
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    - Some programs start with big delay... What could cause this? I have an effect here, that starts driving me nuts: the startup of certain programs is reproducibly delayed by about 30 seconds during which the system does apparently "nothing" (i.e. it hangs or waits for something but there is no CPU or disk activity), and only after that time the program starts up. What's esp. annoying is, that it is blocking the program that has triggered the firing up of an application during that period, not the application BEING fired up. What I want to say with this is: I e.g. click on a link in some mail in Outlook (or a link in any other program). Outlook goes non-reactive for about 30 seconds after which IE is finally started up and opens the referenced webpage. Same if I click on URLs in other programs. Or I click on a file in Explorer. Explorer (and with it the entire system's UI) hangs for said 30 seconds or so and only THEN finally the application corresponding to the filetype (e.g. a text editor or Adobe Reader or whatever) starts up and loads the file I clicked on. Strange enough starting the same programs that show such delays via a desktop icon or the start menu works "immediately" - no delay. So it is e.g. faster to copy a URL from a mail, fire up IE using the desktop icon and pasting it into the address field. If I simply doubleclick the URL, it will fire up only after half a minute. Or I can fire up my favorite text editor, it comes up immediately and I can drag the file icon from explorer into the editor and it immediately loads the file and opens it. If I doubleclick the file's icon in Explorer it takes forever until the editor comes up and displays that file (and Explorer is blocked during that time). I haven't really figured out the "pattern" behind this effect, yet.Originally I observed this for URLs only and I thought it was an Internet Explorer problem, but in the meantime I experienced this with all kinds of other applications as well. The only common denominator I see, is that the delays seem to happen always then, when the system has to determine which application it shold start based on a given filename or URL (or MIME-type). Could it be that the mechanism that derives the application responsible for a given file- or MIME-type could be the problem here? Does that ring a bell with someone? Any idea, what could cause these delays? And/or how to fix it? Michael Tag: Common Places Tag: 154495
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    - Program Launcher I am wondering if there is a program launcher similar to the one used on the Moblie PC using xp tablet? My boss likes it and wants to use it. Tag: Common Places Tag: 154492
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    - Slide Shows Hi: A while back I used to be able to view my photos in a slide show forma in Windows Exploring. Now that option is no longer available to me, eve though every picture is in .jpg format. How do I get it back? Thanks for any help -- sbanne ----------------------------------------------------------------------- sbanner's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=4017 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=89981 http://forums.techarena.i Tag: Common Places Tag: 154491
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    - Changing Administrator Name I've done this before but have forgotten how. I want to change the 'Administrator' account user name. Running MCE2005 (XP Pro SP2). How??? -- SoCalCommie http://so-la-i.com/ Tag: Common Places Tag: 154488
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    - Disable AVI Duration and Dimensions from displaying. To disable XP from displaying the Dimensions, Duration etc of AVI files, I found this little trick on the inter-web: Regsvr32 / u shmedia.dll. Before I go off and do something stupid, does anyone know if this is a safe practice? The reason I ask is that in several folders I have quite a few AVI files and Explorer is painfully slow at displaying the folder contents. I realize that I can do this on a folder by folder basis (View -> Chose Details etc), the problem here is that one must wait until Explorer has finished - kinda defeats the purpose me thinks. Any insight would be appreciated. Cheers. Tag: Common Places Tag: 154487
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    - Taskbar and Startmenu In control panel, the taskbar and start menu window/folder won't open. Tag: Common Places Tag: 154485
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    - Music wallpaper website Hi everyone. Recently, I have created a music wallpaper website. All of the wallpaper are my own creation, so they are quite different from other wallpaper that you can find on the net. Do check out this website at <a href="http://lymeus.com">http://lymeus.com</a> Tag: Common Places Tag: 154484
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    - Is my display in power saving mode? After a certain period of inactivity my system puts my display into power saving mode. Is there any way for a program running on my system to know that this has happened? Presumably Windows knows, since it put the display in power saving mode in the first place. But perhaps it doesn't record this fact anywhere. It is one of the conditions that guarantees there is no sentient being at the controls, so applications that normally run in the background can start hogging resources normally reserved for humans. In my case, the network bandwidth. The question is: is there any way to find out? -- Steve Swift http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html http://www.ringers.org.uk Tag: Common Places Tag: 154482
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    - Aquarium Screensaver Does Microsoft have a Aquarium Screensaver I don't want to download one's on the net with Adware. Tag: Common Places Tag: 154476
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    - choose detais on all folders? Any way to choose details (date created, size etc) for alot or all folders at once? XP SP2 Tag: Common Places Tag: 154473
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    - How to force XP to memorize view options? My XP constantly forgets the view settings of certain folders. I have defined Details-view as default for my system but certain special folders, like "My Computer" or "Control Panel" I prefer to see in icon view. However, each time I open any of these, they are shown in Details-mode again and I have to change the view mode AGAIN! Grrr! How can I convince this darn XP to memorize these settings? And don't tell me to check Tools => Folder Options => View => "Remember each folder's view settings" because that is of course set. Michael Tag: Common Places Tag: 154471

In Xp there was a way to add 5 locations that were called common places.
These were places that you went to all of the time and they would appear in
all drop down menus when trying to open a file from any program. Is this
possible with Vista?

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Have A Great Day!
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Re: Common Places by Gordon

Gordon
Tue Feb 26 08:04:50 PST 2008

"Bill Meyer" <gingem@email.com> wrote in message
news:eWgOEJHeIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> In Xp there was a way to add 5 locations that were called common places.
> These were places that you went to all of the time and they would appear
> in all drop down menus when trying to open a file from any program. Is
> this possible with Vista?

Might be - try posting in a VISTA group, rather than an XP one....

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