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Don’t you wish there was an easy way to add custom locations to the Save/Open dialog box? Well, actually, there is. With Direct Folders, you can quickly find frequently used folders in the Save/Open dialog box. After the program is installed, you can right-click in the white space of the window to access your customized list of folder shortcuts.
Of course, there are other ways to tweak this box too - for example, in Windows XP, a registry hack can let you update the box with your own settings:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32\PlacesBar]
“Place0″=”e:\\XP Utils”
“Place1″=”e:\\research”
“Place2″=”e:\\Registry Patches”
“Place3″=”e:\\UtilitiesSet 2″
“Place4″=”e:\\UtilitiesSet 1″
TweakUI does it too.
In Vista, it’s a bit different. The Places bar is now the “Favorite Links” bar, so customizing them involves going into your Links folder: User_Profile\Links
In here, you can customize the Windows Shortcut (.Ink) files according to this document.
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Which your copy of XP had Vista’s ReadyBoost benefits? Now you can with this new application from eBoostr. With eBoostr, you can use an additional drive (like a USB key or another hard drive) to add another layer of performance-boosting cache for your Windows XP install which lets you PC boot up much faster. The app smartly caches frequently used applications and files for maximum performance speed up and this cache file can be up to 4 GB in size. eBoostr is $29 to purchase and can be used on up to 4 PCs, but you can give it a dry run for free.
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Project Dakota is an easy way to update a Windows XP PC using a CD. (Why did I discover this after I left my I.T. job??) The CD contains all the updates found on the Windows Update website, including SP2 as well as standalone programs like Adobe Reader, Spybot S&D, Firefox, Java, QuickTime, and more. The updates comes with a standalone installed that runs them in the correct order (i.e. first the pre-SP2 updates, then SP2, then the post-SP2 updates). Using a CD to install updates is much faster than having to wait for them to download. It’s also handy if the computer you’re building doesn’t have an internet connection available. Or if, I don’t know, you want your PC to be patched and secure before you go online. The Project Dakota download is 702 MB and is in an ISO format so you can burn it to a CD. [...]
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