This is the first part of a series of multiple posts about how to have the explorer configured right(ok, my way)in Windows 7.

Please left click on “Organize (push button)” in “Computer”

Please left click on “Folder and search options (menu item)”

Please left click on “Open each folder in its own window (radio button)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Show all folders (check box)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Automatically expand to current folder (check box)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “View (page tab)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Always show menus (check box)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Display the full path in the title bar (Classic theme only) (check box)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Show hidden files, folders, and drives (radio button)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Hide empty drives in the Computer folder (check box)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Hide extensions for known file types (check box)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) (check box)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Yes (push button)” in “Warning”

Please mouse drag start on “Position (indicator)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Launch folder windows in a separate process (check box)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Restore folder windows at logon (check box)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color (check box)” in “Folder Options”

Please mouse drag start on “Position (indicator)” in “Folder Options”

Please mouse drag end on “Position (indicator)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Search (page tab)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Always search file names and contents (this might take several minutes) (radio button)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “Include compressed files (ZIP, CAB…) (check box)” in “Folder Options”

Please left click on “OK (push button)” in “Folder Options”

That will be all!

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Please left click on “Tools (menu item)” in “Start Page – Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express”

Please left click on “Options… (menu item)”

Please left click on “Show all settings (check box)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Projects and Solutions (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “General (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Track Active Item in Solution Explorer (check box)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Always show solution (check box)” in “Options”

Please mouse drag start on “Position (indicator)” in “Options”

Please mouse drag end on “Position (indicator)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Text Editor (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “HTML (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “HTML (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Tabs (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Formatting (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Insert attribute value quotes when typing (check box)” in “Options”

Please mouse drag start on “Position (indicator)” in “Options”

Please mouse drag end in “Options”

Please left click on “OK (push button)” in “Options”

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In this tip I will show how to add a “send to” notepad menu item(you can add for another programs too)

Please keyboard input [... Win-R]

Please keyboard input in “Run” [Enter]

Please right click on “Items View (list)” in “C:\Users\andrei ignat\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo”

Please left click on “New (menu item)”

Please left click on “Shortcut (menu item)”

Please keyboard input in “Create Shortcut” [...]

Please left click on ” (push button)” in “Create Shortcut”

Please keyboard input in “Create Shortcut” [...]

Please left click on “Finish (push button)” in “Create Shortcut”

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Problem steps recorder is a nice tool to record a tutorial/help. However, it does record only first 25 items with images.

Please keyboard input [... Win-R]

Please click on the dropdown on right and choose settings

change from 25 to 100

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Please left click on “Tools (menu item)” in “Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio”

Please left click on “Tools (menu item)” in “Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio”

Please left click on “Options… (menu item)” in “&Tools”

Please left click on “Prevent saving changes that require table re-creation (check box)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Environment (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “At startup: (combo box)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Open Object Explorer and new query (list item)”

Please left click on “Text Editor (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Transact-SQL (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Line numbers (check box)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Query Execution (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Query Results (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “SQL Server (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “SQL Server (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Results to Grid (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Include column headers when copying or saving the results (check box)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Multiserver Results (outline item)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Add server name to the results (row)” in “Options”

Please left click on “Page down (push button)” in “Options”

Please left click on “OK (push button)” in “Options”

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