Tips and Tricks

Quick tips:
Display your file extensions
PowerToys
Missing OneNote Icon

Display your file extensions

In order to make it easier for novice computer users Windows has turned off the showing of file extensions. This prevents newbies from accidentally changing some file's extension and which may lead to problems with opening the file.

But for any user that already has some experience with computers this becomes annoying.

Open My Computer.
Click Tools from the menu and then select Folder Options…
Switch to the View tab.
Locate Hide extensions for known file types and then uncheck it.
Click OK.

Power Toys

Microsoft has created a set of nifty tools to enhance the Windows experience for the more knowledgeable Windows users.

the popular tweak application Tweak UI
a cool Alt-Tab Replacement
an advanced replacement for the standard Windows Calculator called Power Calculator
Image Resizer - enables you to resize one or many image files with a single click
a Virtual Desktop Manager allowing you to have several desktops and switch between them with a press of a key
and a lot more.

You can find more information and download them at:
Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP

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Missing OneNote Icon

Microsoft OneNote is a great note taking software. It puts an icon in the tray in order to help you has quick access to it. Don't worry the program when minimized is unloaded from the memory and is not using your valuable computer resources like memory and CPU power.

It puts a shortcut in the Startup folder in your All Programs menu. But sometimes the icon may disappear. This is caused if you or something else deletes this file.

If you add a shortcut manually you will it doesn't work as expected. That's because you should add a parameter '/tsr' to the target line. It should typically look like:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\ONENOTEM.EXE" /tsr

Make sure that you also enabled the tray icon in the OneNote Options menu.

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