Although this is not the most needed tip, it can still be useful - particularly if you have installed some ISP software which adds their name to your Internet Explorer title bar.
Either you can directly edit the key in the registry (regedit.exe) or alternatively save the following into a .reg file (e.g. IE_Title_Change.reg)
Windows Registry Editor […]
If Windows informs you that a reboot is required after a registry change - you can sometimes get round it by restarting the registry.
To do that:-
Open Task Manager (ctrl-shift-esc)
click on the processes tab
find ‘explorer.exe’
right click on explorer and choose ‘end process’ - click ‘yes’ to confirm
** Don’t worry about the taskbar disappearing - that’s […]
Have you had an error along the lines of: 16-Bit Windows Subsystem. An installable Virtual Device Driver failed Dll Initialization?
This is easy to fix, but requires a bit of work in the registry.
So…
Open the registry editor ‘Start - Run - regedit’ and press enter
navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
Find the key named ‘VirtualDeviceDrivers’ and delete it
Create a new […]
I think this works for XP Pro onwards.
Very simply, this query will dump a list of drivers installed in your OS. Very handy if you want to manually remove a driver in order to force the use of a different device driver.
open a command prompt (Start - Run - cmd)
From the command prompt type ‘driverquery’ […]
A very simple, but often unknown feature with Windows Media Player is to have it sit as a Media Player Toolbar on your taskbar.
To activate, simply right mouse click on the taskbar, go to ‘Toolbars’ and choose Windows Media Player.
If your taskbar is locked and doesn’t allow it, right click on the taskbar and […]
