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This little tweak allows you to customize the grouping action on your taskbar. According to the default, if you have more than (ex.) 3 internet explorer windows open, XP will group them into a single button with a menu that lifts off the taskbar. You can change the number of windows that are open before XP groups them.

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It seems that even without pointer precision disabled, the mouse under XP is still influenced by an acceleration curve. This is especially noticeable in games. To completely remove mouse acceleration from XP, you will need to go into the registry and adjust the SmoothmouseXYCurve values. Here is how its done.

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When you choose a wallpaper using the standard method (selecting a background on the desktop tab, in the properties window), Windows converts this image to a huge .bmp file (even if you selected a .jpg). Then instead of having a nice 220K wallpaper, you get a 3,15MB wallpaper. To get rid of this, try using active desktop's web capabilities, like this:

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Ever wanted you Windows shell to look similar to a Mac OSX? Changing the icon size  will add that final touch.   Mac OSX has a max size of 128x128 icons. (Windows Max: 72x72).

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How to show the built in CPU meter which is part of the Windows Task Manager every time you boot or switch users.

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This allows you to place any picture and text so that it will be displayed in the system control panel; without having to mess with the registry.

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Normally, folders like My documents or some others have to be accessed from the start menu or desktop, and they open a window. Although you can set some folders to scroll from the start menu, it is sometimes easier to make a "folder menu" that can simply be expanded from the taskbar.

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Sometimes you may find the left/right chevron on your notification tray disapears and your icons will no longer hide.
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Instead of going through all those menu choices to get rid of the GO button in IE, just right-click on the GO button itself and uncheck it from the pull down list. It's that easy.

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