APEX News - March 2010
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HINTS and TIPS MONTH . . .
Find Your Missing USB Drive on Windows XP. Have you ever plugged in a USB drive or any external device with a hard drive and wondered why you cannot see it in My Computer? More than likely the cause is that Windows renamed the drive to a letter that is already in use. This will happen if you have several card readers, thumb drives or external hard drives attached. It will also happen if you are on a network and have mapped drives. Your solution may be here.
Defrag Multiple Hard Drives At Once In Windows. The Disk Defragment utility in Windows XP does not include a way to defragment all hard drives at the same time, which is inconvienient when you have more than one hard drive in your computer. The method we are going to use is by creating a batch file to defragment all of the drives, one after the other. The solution is here!
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How To Fix System Tray Tooltips Not Displaying in Windows XP. There’s a bug in Windows XP where sometimes the system tray tooltips and popup notifications will show up behind the taskbar or behind other windows. This is really annoying when you want to use a tooltip. Visit to get the solution.
WebsiteTips. A quality educational web site design and development resource especially for Web site owners, Web designers, Web professionals, webmasters, teachers and educators, students and anyone wanting to learn about Web sites. Visit their website.
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Web Page Design. A set of pages designed to provide all sorts of help that attempt to set out how to design and develop your own web pages. There is also some extra items that you might find useful and at least worth investigating. Drop by for a visit.
PC Hell. “ Everyone has been to PC Hell at one time or another. It's that place you visit when your personal computer is driving you insane with problems, glitches and so on. To try to soothe the frustration we'll provide some tips, hints and troubleshooting remedies to help you get out of PC Hell. Be warned however, sometimes there is no exit . . . ” Pay them a visit!
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Are you using the Windows 7 OS? There's a bunch of hints and tricks released by Microsoft staff that you can get here and many more at Tim Sneaths Blog.
MAC Users Special - Really Useful OS X Timesavers. They say the whole ethos of Apple products is to get things done more quickly and elegantly and with this site guide to 101 Essential Mac Timesavers, you’ll get the best out of your Mac, iPod or iPhone and learn some great timesaving tricks as well. Pay them a visit!
Last but not least - You are invited to a Funeral! Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, will be dead on the morning of March 1, 2010. Now this should be fun!! Drop by - see what's going on!
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Thanks to
How-To Geek.
The Elder Geek.
WebsiteTips.
Web Page Design - Hints and Tips.
PC Hell.
Neowin.net.
Tim Sneath.
Mac Hints and Tips.
E6 Funeral.
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