Search Engines

Where do search engines get their information from? Most of the major search engines get their information from third party search providers. A few of those include Web crawlers, human editors who compile result listings and some information comes through paid placement listings. They also sometimes create the information themselves through their own efforts. Some search engines feed off of each other as well. For example, Google takes care of the results it shows all on its own, while AOL just uses the information Google gathers from their Web crawling listings.

Other search engines like Yahoo! and MSN do the same thing. Yahoo! gets their own information and MSN uses it. Most of the smaller search engines feed off of either Google or Yahoo! Along with that, some of them get their result listings from all three methods. It just depends on what they think will provide them with the best information to share with their users.

Disabling the Vista Delete Confirmation

You occasionally have the need to delete a bunch of files and folders off your computer, right? You know, just to free up some space.

Well, every time you delete a file, Windows asks you this: "Are you sure you want to move this file to the Recycle Bin?" That's typically a good thing, because it prevents you from deleting files by mistake, but if you're trying to do some cleanup and you need to delete a lot of files at once, you might not want to be prompted every single time. there's a simple way to turn it off while you're doing your cleaning. (Otherwise, I recommend you leave it on).

To turn it off, just right click on your Recycle Bin icon and choose Properties from the menu

Now, you'll see the Trash Properties dialogue box and you'll notice the "Display delete confirmation dialogue" option at the bottom.

Uncheck that box and close out the window. No more confirmations for you! (Just don't forget to turn it back on when you're done deleting your files).

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Make your desktop icons bigger or smaller just by using my mouse wheel and moving it up or down while holding down the CTRL key.

To see the whole Web page (like viewing a video or photo gallery) if you press the F11 key the browser window covers the screen and the toolbars disappear - so you see nothing but the page. To go back to normal all you do is press F11 again.

Fun With Windows
Windows XP (all versions)
May work in Vista with certain graphics cards too, give it a try.

This tip actually has a useful function if your showing your laptop screen to someone standing on their head, we guess. However, it's something cool we discovered last week and a good prank to play on friends and family members - especially those who don't know how to put things back the way they were. As long as you remember how you can fix it for them. Right?

Did you know you can flip the screen upside down by doing the following:

Press Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow

To revert the screen to normal:

Press Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow

If you're feeling really adventurous, try Ctr l+ Right Arrow and Ctrl + Left Arrow and see what happens.

Some graphics cards, for instance, Intel Extreme Graphics Controller, and certain nVidia graphics cards use these commands as default keyboard shortcuts. So, if you have a graphics card that is already using these commands, nothing will happen when you execute them in Windows. So if this tip does not work on your computer, that's why. It will work on most computers though.

What Is Uptime?

Uptime is how long Windows has been running since you last re-booted. Or, more broadly, how long your computer has been "up and running". So, if it's been awhile since you rebooted or restarted your computer you might be interested in seeing what your "uptime" is, right? Sure! Here's how you do it:

From the Start menu, click Run. Type “cmd” and click OK. From the Command Prompt window, type systeminfo | find “Up Time” and press Enter. The results will tell you how long Windows XP has been up and running. As with many other commands, it is case sensitive so it must be typed in exactly as it appears above or an error message will be returned instead. If that doesn't work for you, you can download a little script that will tell you in minutes how long your computer has been running (i.e. your "uptime"). Just download it and save it to your desktop. Double-click it to run it. It doesn't need to be installed and you can delete it by right-clicking it and selecting Delete. Make sure you choose "Save" when you download it - do not choose "Open" or "Run".