Here is a tip that may seem obvious but I just haven’t fully appreciated until recently. Do you want more screen real estate, why not hide your windows taskbar. If you’re like me and have increased your taskbar double fold then hiding it  adds about an inch more to your screen real estate after it’s hidden. Now It really feels like I have a 19 inch monitor Give it a try and let me know what you think.
Here’s how to turn on the Auto-hide option:

 1. Right-click on the …

If your like me and are constantly plugging your USB drive in and out, then you’ll appreciate this hack to add a shortcut to your desktop that will facilitate the removing of your USB drive.
1. Right click on your desktop and choose New -> Shortcut.
2. Type “RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll” for the location. After that, change the name of the shortcut. I had renamed it to “Remove USB Drive“.

3. You should have a USB icon on your desktop. You can click it and now choose which device to remove.

For those of you who still like to use Internet Explorer over Firefox, I know there must be a few of you still out there,  There is a application called Maxthon that runs off of IE’s core program and adds many cool and useful features that you only wish IE or Firefox had.
Tabbed Browsing 

Tabs aren’t new and other browsers have them but Maxthon in my opinion does the best job of implementing them in there browser.
Groups

You no doubt have heard of favorites but have you heard of groups? Groups makes …

 I discovered this useful utility that allows you to map a drive letter to your FTP site. For those of you who don’t know, FTP stands for File Transfer protocol. An FTP site usually resides on your website host providers computer. For example if I want to upload files to my site at gnetsolutions.info I would connect using FTP and upload or download files. If I wasn’t’ using NetDrive I would have to use a program like Filezilla which allows me to connect to an FTP site. NetDrive now allows …

 
 
1. Choosing  your Components – A list of efficient, stable components for building a Windows Home Server.
2. Assembling your Components – Steps on assembling your components.
3. Installation, Bios Tweaks and Software Additions – Installation of WHS, Bios tweaks and software additions.
4. Final Thoughts, Recommendations – After thoughts on the process of setting up Windows Home Server. 
 

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