Fird's Domain

Have you ever:

• Wished you could copy someone’s shared folder over to your PC so you can own everything that he shares, and then always copy the latest content that he has?
• Wished that you backup that very important folder into some other PC so that you don’t have to feel very suicidal when your laptop crashes/stolen?
• Wished you could always keep one other copy of some folders in your hard disk in case the hard disk died/you have to reformat your Windows due to some malicious virus?
• Wished that there is an easy way to synchronize your music folder with your housemate’s music folder so whatever you have, he has, and vice versa?

I have at least three of the wishes above. Back then when I was still studying, we live in a hostel with a built-in LAN access. So I occasionally will browse through the resident’s shared folders, and often I would find some nice shows/songs that I would like. However, the task becomes very daunting because I would have to click on every folder they have to see if there is new content.

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There are two ways to resize the desktop icon in Windows Vista. One of the ways is to use one of the three defined sizes:

Right-click on any blank space in your Desktop, and choose “View“, then pick one of the three “Large“, “Medium” or “Classic” size (they correspond to 80px, 48px and 32px respectively). However, these pre-defined sizes might not suit what you need. There is another way to resize the icons.

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If you open up any Windows Explorer instances in Vista, you’ll notice that Microsoft have make the Favorites more visible:

Windows Vista has made the Favorites folder more visible by default

You can actually add links to your own frequently used folders to speed up access.

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Windows Vista comes with a new way of organizing your personal files. Instead of mere “My Documents”, now there is a lot more - it is called the “Home Folder”. If you noticed, in the Start Menu, there is one entry that is labeled as your name (or your username):

There is more that we can do with this seemingly “nothing much” folder.

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Note: Removing thumbs.db in Windows XP will effectively slow down previewing your images (in explorer thumbnail mode), as this is what Windows XP uses to store the thumbnails of the images in the folder. You will need to disable this function in Windows XP permanently if you would not want the thumbs.db file to be regenerated again every time you opened a folder in tumbnail view.

If you’re using Vista, you’ll notice that Vista actually stored it’s thumbnails in a centralized folder (rather than generating thumbs.db file in every folder it previews). If you have upgraded from previous Windows XP installation, or have copied the folder from any other Windows XP based machines, the thumb.db file will be there still (it’s hidden, and taking up space).

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