How To Use Recycle Bin Recovery.

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by Allie Sanchez

We’ve all experienced that sinking feeling when we realize that we’ve deleted a file by mistake that we actually need. This might just be a file that you’ve created at home for fun or a file that you have been creating for work purposes. Either way, accidental deletion can seem like a real headache.

Don’t, however, panic too quickly here. You have access to an in-built solution on your computer that could see you find your file again in minutes and get it back where it belongs. This solution is sitting on your desktop although you may not have noticed it before. It is known as the Recycle Bin.

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Clean Up Your Vista Backups and Restore Points.

I showed you yesterday how what you needed to do when you want to make a backup of your Vista files. But that’s not the only option that Vista has for making backups. Vista has many new features for making backups. Vista saves the previous versions of your documents and the system state points which are part of system restore. These features are great and I’m glad we have them but they can steal a lot of HD space.

Today’s Vista Tip and Tick is about how to remove these system backups but I wouldn’t do this too often. These backups are not done for fun; I suggest that you only do this when your system is running stable and clean. If you have some system problems, don’t touch this Tip & Trick.

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Stop Applications from Automatically Starting in Windows Vista.

Applications automatically starting when you start up your system is necessary for a good Vista usability. I’m showing you in this Vista Tip and Trick how you can disable some of the programs that you never use but are set on autostart. You’ll be amazed how many programs are listed.

For disabling autostart on your applications at start-up you’ll need to take the following steps.

Go to Start
Type in msconfig in the search field.
And press enter.

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If you haven’t disabled your User Account Control – UAC, you’ll see a pop-up asking you for permission.

Now select the startup tab

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Hide All The Icons from Your System Tray Permanently.

If you want to clean up your system tray there are several ways to do this. The simple and easy way to do this is to right click on the system tray and disable or hide them temporary. Ill explain all these options in the next few weeks, stay tuned;).

If you would like to disable them permanently and don’t show any system tray icons at all you’ll need to change some things in the Windows Registry.

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To permanently disable the icons in your system tray you’ll need to follow the next steps.

Go to start
And type in the Windows Vista Search box regedit and press enter.

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Disable, Remove or change the Shortcut Icon Arrow in Windows Vista

Yesterday I showed you how to remove the shortcut arrow from your Windows XP desktop icons. The desktop icons arrows are even bigger in Windows Vista than the ones in Windows XP. This next Vista Tip and Trick is about removing the arrows from your desktop icons or changing them into other icon arrows.

This next Vista Tip or Trick doesn’t involve making manual changes to the registry, We are downloading a free and small program for this which is called Vista Shortcut Manager.

Okay, you should have grabbed the Vista Shortcut Manager by now.
Double click the downloaded file and follow the installation steps to install the software.
Now double click the desktop icon.

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Remove / Disable the Shortcut Arrow From Your Desktop Icons.

If you have a great looking wallpaper and a nice theme to work with than you probably don’t want to see the arrows on your desktop shortcuts. They are just not the most pretty looking things to look at on your desktop.

This Tutorial is for Windows XP; ill post tomorrow how to do this is Windows Vista.

If you want to remove the arrows in Windows XP from your desktop icons you’ll need to take the following steps.

Go to start.
Select Run
And Type in regedit and click OK

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What is your Cleaning Schedule? Part 3

You can divide a Windows Cleaning Schedule in three parts/schedules that are all measured by how you use your system. Maybe you can say four since you also have your daily tasks.

The first is the basic one this is usually a weekly schedule which is performed automatically and covers all the basics.
The second is also (mostly) automated one and is most of the time a monthly schedule.
And the third is a manual one that you’ll need to do yourself.

The basic schedule is needed for tasks like emptying your recycle bin, cleaning up your web cache, deleting cookies, creating backups and deleting temporary files.

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