A window goes OFF the screen, how to move it back into view:
Press Alt + Space bar
Type M (for Move)
Use arrow keys to move the window back where you want it
How to find the full path/url for a mapped or network drive
In Windows Explore you have a "mapped" drive and you want to get the full URL/Path for your mapped drive (Q:) so you can email it to someone else.
Where is it stored and how do I get it?
Where is it stored?
Don’t know. I spent 10 minutes with Google and found all kinds of examples on How to map a drive, but nothing on where Windows stores this info (somewhere in the Registry..DOH!)
So, how do you get it?
Simple, execute the NET USE command.
Open the cmd (DOS) window by clicking on Start->Run, then type in "cmd" and click on the button
To display a list of "mapped" drives and thier full path/url in the cmd window, type NET USE and press the enter key.
To capture the list to text file, type the following in the following and press enter.
NET USE > maplist.txt
This will execute the NET USE command and send its output to a text file called maplist.txt
This file, maplist.txt will now contain a list of all your "mapped" drives along with the full URL\Path for each drive.
Open/edit the file map.txt and then its just a copy-and-paste into an email.
(Note: map.txt will be created in what ever drive/directory that "cmd" executed in.)
How to show what is in startup folders/registry
Start->Run->MSConfig
How to re-create the Show desktop icon on the Quick Launch toolbar in Windows XP
To re-create the Show desktop icon yourself, follow these steps:
Click Start, click Run, type notepad in the Open box, and then click OK.
Carefully copy and then paste the following text into the Notepad window:
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop
On the File menu, click Save As, and then save the file to your desktop as "Show desktop.scf".
The Show desktop icon is created on your desktop.
Click and then drag the Show desktop icon to your Quick Launch toolbar.
Information for advanced users:
The Quick Launch toolbar uses the files in the following folder:
%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
How to re-create the "Compressed (zipped) Folder" in the "Send-To" menu
The Compressed (zipped) Folder icon is present in each user profile and also in the Default user profile.
To restore the missing Compressed (zipped) Folder entry to the "Send To" menu use these steps:
Windows XP
Click Start, Run and type:
rundll32 zipfldr.dll,RegisterSendto
In the background, a 0 byte file named Compressed (zipped) Folder.ZFSendToTarget will automatically be created in the %Userprofile%\SendTo folder.
Windows Vista
Click Start, type the following and press Enter:
%systemdrive%\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
Right-click Compressed (zipped) Folder and choose Copy (Shortcut: CTRL+C)
Open the SendTo folder of your user profile. To do so, click Start, type the following and press Enter:
shell:sendto
Right-click an empty area in the folder, and choose Paste (Shortcut: CTRL+V)