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Jumplists are a great feature of Windows 7 and can save you a lot of time, but what if you want to get rid of the history associated with jumplists. While you can open a jumplist (drag any icon on the taskbar upward) and right click on any single history item to delete it, what if you want to delete…

The Windows7News blog has a handy tip on how you can add Windows 7’s Flip 3D feature directly to the new Windows 7 taskbar. Introduced in Windows Vista, Flip 3D is the more dazzling version of Windows Flip which lets you cycle through your open windows using a keyboard shortcut. Most users are…

The How-to-Geek stumbled across a hidden menu in the beta version of Windows 7: the expanded “Send To” menu. As you already know, when you right-click on any item, one of the options that displays is the “Send To” menu. In Windows 7, you can choose to send that item to a Compressed (Zipped)…

InPrivate mode in Internet Explorer 8 is the new feature that allows a web user to surf anonymously, leaving no traces of their activity behind. Designed for privacy conscious users, surfing in InPrivate leaves no record of sites visited in your Internet History and it erases any cookies, URLs…

I just read a blog post by Steve Clayton that pointed out a little feature I had overlooked in the new Bing.com – a wallpaper changer. It’s a small thing, but it’s kind of fun. In the bottom-right corner of the Bing.com homepage, you’ll see two arrows that let you scroll through the previous…

I have to admit, I didn’t even realize that IE8 had an ad-blocking feature until I read this. The feature is kind of tucked away and hidden within the InPrivate Settings – the new option which lets you surf anonymously leaving no traces, no cookies, no history, etc. behind. Thanks to a user on the…

If you’ve been busy adding IE8 Accelerators to IE’s right-click menu, you may already be wondering if there’s an easy way to organize them to put your most frequently used ones at the top of the menu. As it turns out, there is. Thanks to this handy tip from Ian Moulster, this is how it’s done:…

If you’re a Media Center PC user with a large movie collection, you’ll want to go grab this small .bat file created by Jon from thehtpc.net. The file will organize your messy, unorganized movie collection for you automatically – all you have to do is click. To use the file, just place it into your…

A member of the WinVistaClub.com forums recently posted a great tip for mimicking (sort of) the Federated Search Connector functionality found in Windows 7 on your Windows XP/Vista PC. In case you don’t know, Federated Search is a new feature of Windows 7 that lets you search internet web sites…

Mike Halsey just came up with an ingenious way to add system icons like the Control Panel, Recycle Bin, Devices and Printers, and more to the new Windows 7 taskbar, all while keeping them separate from the other icons already docked there. Mike’s hack builds off of the WinVistaClub forum tip about…