Open up your User folder and you should see your Favorites folder inside it. Double-click to open the Favorites folder. Now enter in the following into the search box to find all bookmarks in the last hundred years or so: Click the Save Search button on the toolbar, and then give it a friendly name like Search Favorites. You’ll see that the default save location is User Folder \ Searches....

It Can Make Your Screen Harder to Read If you’re trying to read light text on a dark background, you may find it more difficult than dark text on a light background (what researchers call a “positive polarity” display). That’s because when you’re looking at a dark screen, your pupil dilates in order to let in more light. Larger pupils result in fuzzier details, making text appear more difficult to read....

Using Doomi Doomi runs with Adobe Air will install the application and Air together. This is a great to-do list because it does exactly what it is designed for an there is no extra bloat. Simply type in what you have to do for the day and a list is generated. After typing in the task click the clock icon to select the hours in the future it is due or you can even create a custom time to be more precise....

Open your Word document and click on the picture or graphic you want to move. You will see the edit outline around your graphic. Now left click the top green knob and hold the object and start to rotate it. Below you can see the graphic start to move. In the second picture here I added an object and am rotating it as you will notice the first graphic is at an angle....

The answer is the Autocomplete Manager extension, which gives you a ton of better functionality such as partial matching against either the link or title of a bookmark or history entry. You can search for a keyword in the URL itself, which will match against either history or bookmarks: Or you can even search for a word in the title of the page, which I find particularly useful: There’s loads of options, for instance you can turn off the matching anywhere or tell it to show bookmarks first in the completion:...

In Firefox, navigate to the Tools \ Options menu item. Select the Privacy button, the Passwords tab, and then click on View Saved Passwords. You’ll be presented with this screen: Click the Show Passwords button, and navigate down to the website password you are looking for. Note: usernames in the image scratched out to protect the poster!

Repairing Your PST File To repair your PST file, you’ll have to open the Scanpst.exe utility that’s included by default with Outlook. The only problem is that there’s no shortcut to it, so you’ll have to find it in the Outlook folder. Open up explorer and then browse down to the following folder for Outlook 2007: Or one of these folders for Outlook 2003 and earlier (thanks to Mike in the comments):...

Websites and web apps continue to grow more complex, which is why Google is constantly working on new performance improvements for the Chrome browser. Now the company is trying a new experiment that could lead to faster load times. Long ago, web browsers used to load the entire contents of a page at the same time — images, embedded plugins, you name it. Over time, browsers and websites started shifting to “lazy loading,” where some content isn’t loaded until it’s visible....

Google recently added a dark mode to Search, much to the excitement of many users. Now, the company appears to be testing an even darker dark mode, making the search screen appear pitch black instead of gray. 9To5Google first spotted the new dark mode, but it appears to only be available for a small subset of Google users (I have dark mode enabled, but the new pitch-black theme isn’t there for me)....

I am running Guitar Tracks on Vista Home Premium 32bit edition. First what I do is change my view right away anytime I make a recording. You don’t have to use the Edit View but for some reason I love to see what I am recording as it happens. So in the upper left hand corner just hit the Edit View button. The next thing I do is turn off the metronome which is located beneath the Tempo window....

Update: We’ve added in the instructions for Windows 7, where it’s really easy to do. There’s actually a couple of solutions to this problem: You can use the built-in accelerator keys, or download and install a small freeware app called bxNewFolder to assign the hotkey. New Folder Hotkey in Windows 7 Windows 7 natively includes a shortcut key combination to create a new folder: Ctrl+Shift+N Simply use this shortcut key anywhere in Windows Explorer, and a new folder will be instantly created:...

Windows 11 is pretty sleek compared to Windows 10, but what if you decide that you don’t like the font, or just want something different? Here’s how you can use the registry to change Windows 11’s system font. How to Create A REG File to Change the Default System Font Windows 11 doesn’t support changing the default system font through any of the usual means: you can’t do it in the Fonts window, there isn’t anything in Accessibility features, and there isn’t even a legacy option in the Control Panel....

Using slicers, you can filter data and always see what’s being filtered in your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. You can add a slicer for each field you want to filter, and we’ll show you how to do that. RELATED: What Is a Slicer in Google Sheets, and How Do You Use It? What Is a Slicer in Excel? A slicer is basically an on-screen tool that you can use to filter data in your spreadsheet‘s tables....

One of the glaring changes in Windows Vista was the complete removal of Active Desktop, the feature that let you use a live web page as your background image, or in the case of some users, many live web pages. I’ve personally received emails from dozens of readers wondering how to get that feature back, and a number of readers have been interested in a replacement. Reader Scott is interested in sponsoring a replacement for Active Desktop in Windows Vista....

TalkBack is Android’s feature that reads the on-screen content for you. If you don’t need it, you can turn off TalkBack using either Google Assistant or the Settings app on your Android phone. We’ll show you how. Later, if you need the TalkBack functionality, you can toggle on the feature on your phone. RELATED: How to Turn On Google Assistant Use Google Assistant to Turn Off TalkBack If you use Google Assistant on your Android phone, you can ask it to turn off TalkBack for you....

Apple just had its huge event, and the company announced a new iPad Air, a new iPhone SE, and new colors for iPhone 13. The company tucked the release window for iOS 15.4 and iPad OS 15.4 in the press release for those devices, and we won’t have to wait long. In Apple’s press release for the iPhone 13 colors, Apple addressed iOS 15.4 and when it would launch. At the very bottom of the press release, Apple said, “iOS 15....

Wi-Fi Passwords vs. Admin Passwords Before we look at the topic of default manufacturer-supplied Wi-Fi login credentials, let’s take a moment to clarify what we’re talking about. Every router has a default set of administrative login credentials that are, by their very nature, not secure as they are intended to be used by the consumer to perform the initial configuration of their router. The default logins are usually something very simple like admin/admin, admin/password, or the company name like motorola/motorola....

Microsoft rolled out an update on June 23 for Windows 11, which included a bug that prevents the Start Menu from opening on some PCs. The company said on the Windows Release Health dashboard, “we have received reports that a small number of devices might be unable to open the Start menu. On affected devices, clicking or selecting the Start button, or using the Windows key on your keyboard might have no effect....

Answer: Pull out your DOS hat, open a command prompt, and then use the “for” command. The syntax works something like this: So if you wanted to append all of the *.log files in a directory, you’d use the “type” command and then pipe it into a single file using the » operator. The difference between » and > is that the former appends data to the end of the file, and the latter will completely replace the file, which would be pointless for what we want to do....

First, you’ll want to save it to a new file name, just in case you need to make changes later, or want to base another document on it. To mark your document as Final, click the Microsoft Office button in the upper left hand corner, choose Prepare on the left menu, and then click Mark as Final. You’ll get two annoying popup windows explaining that your document will be saved, and the second will ask if you want to stop the message from happening again....