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How to Create a Vista Shutdown Shortcut

In a few steps, you can create a Windows Vista shutdown your desktop - an easier and faster way to shutdown Vista.

Right click on your desktop and select “New”
Select the “Shortcut” option
When the New Shortcut wizard appears, type shutdown -s -t 01 in the location field.
Click the “Next“ button to finish the shortcut
After the shortcut [...]

How to Clear My Recent Documents List in Windows

In a few steps, it is easy to clear the “My Recent Documents” list in Windows:

Right-click Start and choose Properties
Click the Customize button
Click the Advanced tab
Click Clear List, and then click OK twice|
The entries in your My Recent Documents menu disappear

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How to Use the Vlookup Function in Excel 2007

The Vertical Lookup/Vlookup/Lookup function in Excel grabs information from another location based on some key or value.  Consider the Vlookup function the Excel 2007 lookup workhorse, so it’s important to know how to use it.
Watch our free video tutorial explaining how to use the Excel 2007 Vlookup function.
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How to Increase USB Drive Speed

This free video tutorial explains how to enable write caching on your USB drive. The end result is increased speed for reading and writing to your USB thumb drive by selecting “Optimize for Performance”. If you opt for this setting, ensure that you safely remove the USB drive in Windows to prevent any data loss, [...]

Using Windows Vista Speech Recognition

In this video tutorial, we are going to look at the speech recognition application in Windows Vista. The speech recognition program allows you to control your computer using speech. You will need to have a microphone attached to your computer – which you can purchase for as little as $10 or $15 dollars including headphones. [...]