Windows Vista, 7 and 8 all have their own tab switchers with which you can switch between open windows on the taskbar by pressing Alt + Tab. However, those tab switchers lack options. If you’re searching for an Alt + Tab swi...
If you can’t choose between two alternative websites to make your Firefox homepage why not just make both your homepage? You can do that by adding a specific website to the Firefox New Tab page. That then becomes your second homep...
It is very easy to open or launch a website from within a web browser; simply open the browser, type in the website URL, and go. However, what if you wanted the ability to launch websites directly from your desktop without first o...
The Firefox browser has a search box which you can add a variety of search engines to. Although you cannot add website search forms to the browser. That is unless you install the Add to Search Bar add-on for Firefox. The Add to Se...
If you’re searching for a specific keyword within PDF documents, it’s better to search across multiple PDFs at the same time than separately within separate documents. We will show you how to do that — read on to...
Chrome has a variety of internal pages that can be opened from its menus. However, there are a few that you must enter a URL to open. There is one URL that opens a list of Google Chrome’s internal page links. Enter chrome://about ...
Windows has a variety of fonts to select from word processor applications. Although you can add even more fonts to Windows. Alternatively, if most of the fonts are surplus to requirements you can also delete them. To delete fonts ...
Adobe Reader is a software package with which you can open and print PDF documents. When printing PDF documents with Adobe Reader, you don’t always have to print out whole pages. You can instead print smaller sections of the...
Favicons are the small shortcut icons on the Firefox browser. They are on the browser’s tabs and menus. You can remove favicons from Firefox by configuring a couple of options on the advanced settings page. Open the Firefox ...
The Firefox New Tab page, that shows your most visited site pages on a grid, is customizable. However, the browser doesn’t include many native customization options with which to change the New Tab page background, thumbnail image...
Hyperlinks aren’t just for websites and pages. To share data from other Excel documents, you can interlink them with spreadsheet hyperlinks. This is an option to provide quicker access to other spreadsheet documents which you woul...
VHDs are virtual (aka fake) hard discs that can be used as real hard drives in Windows. This previous dotTech post covered how to set up a virtual hard disc. To regain local hard disc space, you can also delete this virtual disc w...
If you seldom require the Caps Lock you might as well disable it. That will then ensure the key is not switched on when inputting passwords. This is guide shows you how you can switch the Caps Lock key off via the registry, so it ...
Most standard keyboards include only a few symbols on them. However, Windows actually supports a wider range of symbols than those included on the keyboard. As such, you can enter a larger number of symbols in your documents with ...
The Web has plenty of image editing tools on it, which many photography software packages also include. With some photo editing software packages, you can convert your photographs to shortcut icons on the Windows desktop. You can ...
