Microsoft Windows
How to: log out of a corporate network or network share without logging off your computer

  The title of this post might be misleading but I could not find a better way to word it. Suppose you’re using a virtual machine and you access the corporate network from within it. Normally, the network will ask for your credentials, full with the domain name and username. What happens however when, after [...]

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Posted on 14th November 2011No Comments
How to: Fix the missing Start Menu icons

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where, although you can access your programs through the windows start menu, when they start, they do not display their associated icon in the task bar? Or, maybe, the program icons don’t display on the start menu itself? In Windows Vista and Windows 7, these icons are [...]

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Posted on 30th July 20111 Comment
Move Up one level with Windows 7 Explorer

Okay, now, I don’t know how many of you find it just as infuriating as I do, but I believe that MS choice to change the keyboard shortcuts from one version of Windows to another is just a pain. In any case, in good old XP, you’d just press the Backspace and the Windows Explorer [...]

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Posted on 24th August 2010No Comments
Windows 7 Partitioning during Installation

(Ακολουθεί Ελληνική μετάφραση) If you’re installing Windows 7, any one of the 32- or 64-bit versions, or if you’ve already installed one of the two, you might have noticed that your hard drive partitions changed during the installation of your new operating system. No matter whether you’re installing on a huge or small drive, a [...]

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Posted on 8th April 2010No Comments