Apple Magic Trackpad with Windows 11 Intel
A quick article to get an Apple Trackpad working with an MS Windows 11 Pro (Intel 64) workstation.
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Windows OS: Alt Codes / Symbols / Special Characters
This is a simple article to demonstrate how to type special characters not found on your keyboard or on a Qwerty UK/US keyboard layout.
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Windows 10: Shortcut Apps to Settings
This is a list of apps that if run via the run command, or used in a desktop shortcut, or that you want to include in automation software such as AutoHotkey, opens any specific Windows OS settings page. This does not make the change to the setting itself, just displays it to the user for them to make the choice.
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Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x8DE00005
A quick article on how to update the Microsoft Live Server URL for Hotmail using Windows Live Mail. Well how to deactivate an account and set up a new one in Windows Live Mail. If you used IMAP all along then the new account will have all your mail. The error Unable to send or receive messages for the Hotmail (someone)...
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VBScript to retrieve Windows Product Key
A quick article with the code to retrieve your product key in Windows 7 with a small VB script file. There are other articles on the web about this but the ones I found returned errors such as WshShell not valid. This article has a working example applicable to Windows 7 Professional.
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Hide a Drive per User in Windows 7
Looking at ways of displaying different drives per user on a single computer. This one is by modifying the system registry, so if you aren't familiar with the system registry in MS Windows, you may need to find someone who is. How? As a proof of concept, let's see how to hide a specific drive. Note that this section ap...
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Administrator Program Shortcut without Prompt
I want to create a desktop shortcut that I can double-click and it will run the above programs in administrator mode without confirmation by the Windows operating system. At home this may not be a problem but this is intended for those in an office environment and we get prompted to login (with the same account as we'r...
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Set up Desktop SlideShow in Windows 7
Applies to Windows 7. Requires a Vogonian environment of red tape and bureaucracy. This is an article to describe an alternative method then "right-clicking on the desktop", "selecting Personalize", "clicking on Desktop Background", "browsing to the Picture Location". The problem happens when browsing to the picture lo...
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Print Directory Contents to a File
We can do this by adding an entry to the context menu (when you right-click on an object). The following is a method of adding this as a single command similar to how we add the "Command prompt from here" option (now built-in to Windows 7). I added this option for him in Windows 7 Ultimate using the system registry (se...
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