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How to Show More Sites On the Internet Explorer 9 New Tab Page

The new version of Internet Explorer finally adds a new tab page that shows your most recently used sites, but sadly you can’t customize the display from the options panel. What you can use, however, is a registry hack.To make the change for yourself, you can simply head over to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing\NewTabPage key in the registry editor, and then change the value of NumRows to the number ..read more

Alt+Tab Tuner Makes Windows 7’s Task Switcher Thumbnails Larger and Much More

Windows 7 only: System tweaking utility Alt+Tab Tuner customizes everything about the Windows 7 Alt-Tab dialog, from setting the transparency to increasing the size of the thumbnails.To customize the settings, all you have to do is unzip and launch the utility, drag the sliders to suit your preferences, and click the Apply button. You can even use the utility to switch back to the old XP-style Alt+Tab dialog if ..read more

If you’ve started using the Start Menu search box as your primary application launcher, you may have come across a weird annoyance: By default, you can’t open the Recycle Bin from the search box.

Over at the How-To Geek site (my home away from Lifehacker), writer Matthew writes up the quick and easy trick to opening the Recycle Bin from the start menu, through the search box or even just using the mouse; all you need to do is create a ..read more

Customize Your Web Modifies Web Pages to Your Liking

Firefox on Windows: If you’ve always wanted to modify websites with Stylish and/or Greasemonkey but lack the CSS or JavaScript chops, Customize Your Web lets non-developers change the appearance of web pages and add functionality to them.

Using Customize Your Web’s WYSIWYG editor, you can change the appearance of elements, hide them, or copy and paste them somewhere else in the page. You can also add keyboard navigation or auto-executing macros. For advanced ..read more