Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Taskbar’

Start Task Manager faster with your mouse

Windows December 5th, 2010

There are many ways to open the Task Manager. You like using the mouse? Opening Task Manager without your keyboard is possible too.

Windows and You: By an ordinary user (Technogran)

Windows and You October 25th, 2009

Welcome to a new series on this blog. Windows and You will feature how people deal with and think about Microsoft Windows. It gives an insight what you like most in Windows as well as what you want to see in the next version. Let’s start the series with Technogran, an avid Windows user already running Windows 7.

How-to: Minimize Windows Live Mail to the “tray”

Mail September 21st, 2009

Are you using Windows Live Mail as your primary e-mail program and thus running it all the time? I bet that its taskbar button will get in your way sometimes. When I played around with Live Mail’s options, I found a way to minimize Windows Live Mail to my system notification area, commonly [...]

How-to: Connect to a synced folder with Windows Live Sync

Windows Live September 8th, 2009

If you have Windows Live Sync installed on your computer, you can connect a computer to a synchronized folder to synchronize files. You must install the Sync software from the Sync website, on every computer that you want to synchronize files on.
You can connect multiple computers to a personal folder, but each one must [...]

Windows Live and You: “Making my views known on behalf of the ‘little everyday user’” (Technogran)

Windows Live and You August 21st, 2009

Talking about Windows Live always means talking about its users—the tech-savvy ones as well as the “normal” users. Today I am talking with Technogran, a ‘geeky grandma trying desperately to keep up with it all’, as she describes herself. She lives in the UK and likes Windows Live very much.
mynetx: Technogran, it is [...]

Windows Live and You: “Hmm, I wonder if I can do this better” (Frans–Willem Hardijzer)

Windows Live and You July 1st, 2009

This is the first interview in the Windows Live and You summer edition. I’m sure that my conversation with Frans-Willem Hardijzer, who developed the Messenger add-on StuffPlug, and is also known as “The Blasphemer”, will be especially interesting for you.
mynetx: I find it great that you got some minutes to talk with me about [...]

How-to: Minimize Messenger to the system notification area in Windows 7

Windows 7 May 14th, 2009

If you are running Messenger quite frequently, perhaps even permanently, the rather big Messenger icon in the “normal” taskbar might get into your way rather quickly. How would it be to force Messenger to act like in previous versions of Windows—that is, to “minimize to tray”? Here is how you can.

How-to: Exit Explorer safely in Vista and XP

Windows Vista January 3rd, 2009

Your desktop hangs, or you want to apply a trick which requires Explorer to be restarted? No, you don’t need to log off and back on, neither to reboot. Exiting Windows Explorer and restarting it will be sufficient. Here is how you do it safely, without killing the process.
Vista-rians go here:

Right-click your taskbar, and choose [...]

Änderungen im Messenger-RC

Messenger December 16th, 2008

Falls du dich wunderst welche Änderungen von der letzten Beta zum RC gemacht wurden, hier ist eine Zusammenfassung.

Das Design wurde auf Wave 3 aktualisiert.

Das Design der Benachrichtigungen wurde geändert. Sie nutzen jetzt Direct3D 9.

Die Einträge in Was gibt’s Neues-Feeds sind nun ordentlich verlinkt.

Es gibt eine Reihe neue Szenenbilder, und auch einige neue Standard-Anzeigebilder. [...]