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I little bit off topic this, but having swapped to Vista on my main desktop a few months ago one of the many frustrations I have had is not being able to re-order the taskbar items. I do tend to be somewhat anal about this, on occasions even restarting a program so that I can have it in it’s “normal” place on the taskbar.

I read a review in PCpro last night that lead me towards a little utility called Taskbar Shuffle, I now have one less thing to be anal about

1: Start > Right Click on My Computer and select properties.
2: Click on the “Advanced” tab
3: See the “Perfomance” section? Click “Settings”
4: Disable all or some of the following:

Fade or slide menus into view
Fade or slide ToolTips into view
Fade out menu items after clicking
Show Shadows under menus
Slide open combo boxes
Slide taskbar buttons
Use a background image for each folder type
Use common tasks in folders

There, now Windows will still look nice and perform faster!!!!!!!

This is an easy way to get to the folders on your system without having to open a Windows Explorer Window every time you want to access files. I find it very useful to have this feature as it allows me to access my Folders and Drives immediately and saves me a lot of time.

This works in Windows XP:

1. Right Click an empty spot on your Taskbar (Between your Start Button and your System Tray).
2. Click Toolbars.
3. Click New Toolbar.
4. A Small Window will Open that allows you to pick the folder you wish to make a Toolbar. If you want to access your Desktop Without having to minimize all your windows. Just Pick Desktop. If you want to access ONLY your My Documents Folder, Select that. Any folder will work for this.
5. Click OK.
The New Tool bar will appear at the bottom of your screen next to your System Tray.

If you find this to be not useful, Repeat Steps 1 and 2 and then check click the Toolbar you created that has a check mark next to it. And it will disappear.

Adding shortcuts to start menu or desktop help you quickly access your favourite programs/applications ,disk drives ,files and folders.You may already know how to add your favourite programs shortcuts on the desktop.If you don’t ,right clicking the icon/folder/file/program/drive and selecting create shortcut adds a shortcut on the desktop.But adding shortcuts to start menu needs a few more steps.This tip isn’t a new one but quite useful to handle frequently accessed programs,files or folders.I will show you how to do this in WINDOWS XP.

1.Right Click on the Taskbar,select properties and then start menu tab
2.In the start menu window choose Classic start menu and click advanced
3.Click add,browse and select your favourite,click next to continue
4.Here select start menu,next and finish.Your favourite now appears in start menu.

Here is a very cool tip to open your system drive and web page quickly. You can open any web page without opening browser, windows will automatically open your windows browser and open your web page. you can do this if you put an Address Bar on your Taskbar.

Right click on your system taskbar > go to Toolbars and then click no Address option, here you will see a mark on Address option. After this a Address Bar will appear on your system Taskbar, you can open any web page by typing URL name here and press Enter, Windows will automatically open your web page in be default set browser.

You can also browse files and folders on your computer by using the Address Bar. simply type drive letter like C:\ , D:\ in Address Bar and Press Enter.