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Windows Vista Question: I deleted the destination to my music folder somehow, how do I get it back?

mitz — Fri, 28 May 2010 09:08:40 +0000

Like when I click on Music in task menu nothing happens. How can I create another like official music folder, like the blue one with a CD in it?

Windows Vista- Add Favorites to Start Menu

Buddy — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:25:42 +0000

If you are a frequent Internet Explorer user in Windows Vista and also want your favorites more easy to access then you must check out the below supplied measures. Favorites are important because you are not able to remember so many favorite and regular using websites. This is an important feature of Windows Vista for the regular internet explorer users because they desperately need it. By adding the favorites to the Start Menu you get an easy and faster access to the website or internet address you wish to open. With the help of following plucks you can easily add up a submenu in the Start menu which provides wink access to all your favorites. Have a nice look at the following:

Measures to Add Favorites into Start Menu:

1. Initially, Right-click on a vacuous area of the Windows Vista taskbar and then click on “Properties”.

2. The “Taskbar and Start Menu Properties” window will appear with multiple tabs. From there you need to select the “Start Menu” tab.

3. After this just select the “Customize” option.

4. After choosing the customize option a dialog box naming “Customize Start Menu” will appear and check on “Favorites menu” option.

5. Select “OK” in order to save the settings and close the dialog box. Now you are done with the process of adding favorites to the start menu in the Windows Vista platform. Windows Vista has got the newest and best features that a platform could have.

windows vista question with the desktop screen?

mitz — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 09:07:48 +0000

I was personalizing my start menu and I somehow dragged the folder ’start menu’ onto my desktop. It’s not a shortcut – it is the original so it cannot be deleted. I want it off my desktop.. how do I restore it to wherever it was? Everytime I try to move it elsewhere it only creates shortcuts.

Bring back your desktop by restarting Windows explorer.exe

mitz — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:34:35 +0000

When your computer crashes, sometimes you lose your icons, taskbar, start menu, and so on. This is called Windows Explorer.exe. This video tutorial shows you how to stop or restart explorer.exe so you can get the desktop back to normal. Starting the explorer.exe will bring back your desktop icons, taskbar, notification area, and start menu.

Show the old menu with file, edit, tools, and view in Windows Vista.

mitz — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:59:00 +0000

Old habbits die hard! And this is exactly why we need to bring back the old style classic menu when using Windows Vista Explorer. There are menu items that are hiding from us. I am talking about the file, edit, tools, view, and help menu that was on every explorer window in XP.

This classic menu enables you to change important settings such as folder options, which in itself has at least 30 settings alone.

Here’s how to show the classic old style menu (file, edit, tools, and view)

Go to the start menu and choose documents from the menu
Now press the Alt key on the keyboard
The classic menu will appear
If you press Alt again it will disappear

This is just a temporary fix because the classic menu will not stay there. Next time you go to m computer or documents, you will have to press Alt again.

To get the classic menu to stay in Windows Vista Explorer you need to:

Open computer or documents from the start menu.
Press the Alt key to get the classic menu to appear.
Now got to the tools menu and choose Folder Options.
On the general tab under the heading tasks put a check next to Use Windows Classic Folders.

Watch this video tutorial below to see more details.