Changing the extension on a file can be very useful, but Windows does not make it easy. However, if you turn on “show file name extensions” in Windows, you can change the extensions by simply renaming the files.
Microsoft explains how to show or hide file name extensions on Vista. And Media College explains how to [...]
Revision control systems (Wikipedia) manage multiple versions or revisions of documents. It is often used by software developers to manage their source code, but it can be useful for anyone. Have you ever made a change to a document, saved it, and later wished you had an earlier version of it? If so then you [...]
Read more »Symbolic links are used all the time on Linux and Unix systems, but I didn’t know they existed on Windows. It turns out, however, that Windows 2000 and higher also supports symbolic links — or junctions as they are called. You can use the program Junction v1.05 to create a link between two directories.
This comes [...]
Windows XP and Vista offer only limited ways to control window placement and size on your screen. Sometimes the built-in features are not enough. For example, on my Windows XP laptop, I use one screen resolution on the laptop screen and another screen resolution on the monitor attached to my docking station. When I undock [...]
Read more »The Copy Paste Character website (via Lifehacker) makes it easy to copy and paste special characters. The website is very simple: It presents you with a set of a hundred or so of the most common special characters written in a large font. The set includes accented letters, various quotes, math and numbers, and signs. [...]
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