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Shortcuts For Locking Your PC

Do you need to lock down your computer in a hurry (don’t want your boss to see your game of solitaire!), then here are a couple of shortcuts you can use;
Keyboard
Simple, just use this shortcut

Win key + L

Mouse

Right click your desktop and select new > shortcut
Type the following in the first screen

rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation

Now click [...]

Use Your Keyboard to Control Your Mouse

Now this tweak probably sounds useless to many of our users out there, but it is actually a handy hack for some.
If you do design or work with images etc you would have encountered a time where you needed to move the arrow 1 or 2 pixels but found it tough with the mouse, this [...]

Resize Your Task Bar

I have written a few posts before about editing your task bar so I was suprized when I found out I had not said anything about resizing it.
This is a quick tweak you can perform that will make your task bar larger, enabling you to access more shortcuts etc from your task bar.

Right click in [...]

Activate Windows by Hovering

Normally to change between windows you would have to click your mouse, but there is a feature in Vista that lets you set your mouse so it will change windows just by hovering over it.  To set this up just follow these points;

Open control panel
Click ease of access
Click ease of access center
Open Make the mouse [...]

Mouse Pointer Trails

This option is for people who may be having trouble finding their mouse cursor on the desktop (or those who just think it looks cool). Basically it is a setting that leaves a trail at the back of your mouse whenever it moves, comet style.
You can select whether you want a long or short trail, [...]

Turn Off Shadow Effect

You may have noticed in Windows Vista underneath icons and mouse pointers there is a slight shadow, to most people they have no care about this slight graphic but some may find it annoying.
You can easily disable this effect in Vista by doing this;

Open control panel
Click system (system and maintenance - system)
Click advanced system settings
Click [...]

Turn Off Tapping on Notebook Touchpads

One of the things I personally find very annoying and apparently so do our users is the tapping that happens on notebook touchpads. On these touchpads, you can imitate a mouse click by tapping the pad with your finger. However, the problem with this is that quite often when just trying to move the mouse pointer a [...]

Vista On-Screen Keyboard

In my last post I talked about the Vista Magnifier which can assist any sight impaired person to use their PC just that little bit easier.  Today I will talk about another good application in Vista, the on-screen keyboard.
The on-screen keyboard is essentially a keyboard that pops up onto your screen so you don’t have [...]

Windows Vista Magnifier

This is a great new feature in Vista that can assist visually impaired people use their PC. The Vista magnifier allows people see close up images of their screen in a large block at the top of your PC, and zooms in on the area around your mouse cursor.
Windows magnifier actually has been around in [...]