Twitter Search

Use near: immediately before a location (or a zip code) plus within: immediately before a distance measurement to find tweets sent within a certain distance of a location. Example: near:NYC within:15mi will find tweets sent within 15 miles of "NYC".

How to Make Vista Super-fast

http://www.askvg.com/master-tutorial-to-make-your-windows-vista-super-fast/

How to Fix User Folders Showing Simple Folder Icon in Windows Vista

http://www.askvg.com/how-to-fix-user-folders-showing-simple-folder-icon-in-windows-vista/

Default Windows Mail - Message Store Folder

C:\Users\(user name)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail

Change Linksys Passphrase

To change Linksys passphrase:

In a web browser enter: 192.168.1.1
enter User Name and PW (different than passphrase)
Click:  Wireless Security and change WPA shared key to new passphrase

More good info here:  http://www.home-network-help.com/wireless-router.html

Search for Files by Dates

Put into Search Box:  modified:9/27/2009 .. 9/28/2009
Can also use "datecreated" or "date" instead of "modified"


or use the search function:  Open up the Advanced search by hitting the F3 key with an Explorer window open (or if you are using Vista pre-SP1 you can use the Search option on the start menu).


Thanks to http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/find-files-within-a-date-range-with-windows-vista-search/

Excel | How to Move to the Next Tab

How to move to the next sheet (tab) in the Excel workbook:

CTRL + Page Down (or Page Up for previous tab

Windows Mail Store Folder - Default

C:/Users/(MyName)/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows Mail/Local Folders

Windows XP (friend's laptop) - Turn off Security Center

http://ecoclients.com/blog/turn-off-windows-security-center/