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There are three options for customizing taskbar buttons in Windows 7: Always combine, hide labels Combine when taskbar is full Never combine Is there any way to hide labels and not combine taskbar buttons? Or even better, to exclude only certain applications from combining? My main problem is that I switch a lot between two […]

What are the all possible values of Repeat Rate / Repeat Delay offered by Win 7 concerning Keyboard settings. Solution: Check in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelKeyboard. The KeyboardSpeed property determines the rate at which a character repeats when a keyboard key is held down. This is a value in the range from 0 (approximately

I know that WinKey+M and Winkey+D will essentially minimize all windows and show me my desktop. However, I have been unable to locate a similar shortcut key that either maximizes or restores all windows. Is there a pre-existing way to do this in Windows 7? I’d rather not mess with the BiOS if I don’t

Periodically when I select a menu command, the label or selected option gets “stuck” on screen and won’t go away. I can close all open applications, including whichever one I was using when it got stuck, but it still won’t go away. In the screenshot below, I opened an new instance of IE just to

I tend to have a few Word documents that I keep open all the time, with notes for a long-running project. Normally they are all minimized. The problem is that when I click on a different .doc or .docx file in Windows Explorer, even though the new document opens in its own window, the other,

I have a lenovo g530 and the screen keeps flickering on occasion.  Sometimes it is worse than others, and sometimes it doesn’t seem to do it at all.  I was able to capture a video of it so you could see what is happening.  I kinda wanted someone else’s opinion before I open it up

I have a Microsoft LifeCam HD sitting atop my monitor.  Today, completely out of the blue, its light came on — I was simply browsing the web (in Chrome) when it happened.  After about 5 minutes the webcam turned off. Naturally, I immediately suspected my ex-wife (when in doubt, I always suspect her), but she

About a month ago, Facebook stopped loading on any browser on my Windows 7 PC. I figured it was a virus, and yesterday, I wiped my computer clean and formatted everything because the entire thing has been sluggish lately. I am typing this on my freshly wiped Windows 7 Ultimate x64 computer, and the only

I would like to open the Volume Control popup directly without using the mouse or keyboard. Currently, I am using AutoHotkey to press Win+B to focus on the system tray, Left to highlight the Volume Control icon , and then Enter to bring up the popup. I assume that this is possible, considering that you

I have trouble to schedule a task I wrote. Basically I created a .bat file which executes an R script (script.R). When I double click the .bar file, it gets executed. I can see a result file and also some kind of log file in script.Rout. When I try to run everything in the scheduler