Microsoft Windows Explorer, which is accessible through the Start menu, is the tool you use to look through the files and drives on your computer.

When you start Windows Explorer from the Start menu, it opens your My Documents folder by default. However, a My Documents shortcut already exists on your Start menu. You can put the Windows Explorer shortcut to better use by changing it to display all top-level drives and folders on your system. This change will give you a broad, overall view of all your folders and files.  Read the full story

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One of the unfortunate side effects of the Windows welcome screen is the listing of all the user accounts on the computer. What if there is an account that you do not want others to see? Using the same feature that Microsoft uses to hide system accounts from the Welcome screen, you can hide user accounts as well.

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Most people open an application in windows through the Start menu or by clicking on a shortcut on their desktop. Starting an application from Start menu takes a few clicks and as for the desktop, it could be hidden if you have an open folder.

Windows XP has a way, that many people are not aware of, by which you can quickly access your most used applications and documents from any folder.

The trick is to add a links toolbar. Here is how you do it.

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Madotate is a simple tool that adds 3D effect to your inactive windows. Once you run Madotate it adds another function button to all the windows, right next to the minimize button.

Pressing this button will cause the window to acquire a 3D effect and the window will move aside. The effect is really neat and looks great. You change the position of the window using your left mouse button and as you move, it maintains the perspective with relation to the original position.

By using the right mouse button you can change the perspective or even change the axis.

Madotate offers quite a few settings to customize the appearance as well as behavior of the 3D windows, like setting the transparency, zooming in/out the windows, adding sound to the transitions etc.

On the whole, Madotate adds a great new look and experience working with Windows.

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