I came across a feature of Windows XP file explorer that I hadn’t seen before today. Normally when I want to sent files to someone I don’t browse to the file and use the "Send To Mail Recipient" option. I’m not following my own advice still of reversing my email composition.

Today I was doing some work and my brother wanted me to email him the social media icon graphics I’d created for a website client. Since I was sending a large group of files I just opened the folder and clicked on all of the files he requested.
I then selected …read more

One of my personal computing pet peeves is to have a cluttered and ridiculously overloaded system tray of applications and processes that are running at boot-up. For one thing, having all kinds of unnecessary processes running at start-up on the chance that you might use seems like a waste of resources to me.
If you’re running Windows XP Professional there’s a really easy way to configure at the operating system level what applications have set themselves up to run on startup and to disable them.
Just follow these steps:

Go to Start > Run
Type in “msconfig” in the window (minus the quotes) and …read more