How to Map a Network Drive in Vista

Home networks provide a great way of sharing data between different computers and easy access to specific directories can sometimes result in clicking through a dozen folders before arriving at your desired destination. In order to avoid the usual, "\\somecomputer\users\username\My Documents\School\2008\Spring\" when locating a specific folder on a networked PC, you can simplify this by [...]

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How to Locate Missing Files in Lightroom

I recently purchased a new PC and decided to move my entire Lightroom catalog over to the new computer. I attempted to use the Export catalog function, but it kept failing over and over again (wonder if it had to do with volume of pictures) either way I decided to this manually, so I copied [...]

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How to Enable Remote Desktop Connection with Vista

You have two computers in your house, one in the living room, the other in the office, however you want to perform certain tasks on the computer in the living room without leaving the office, enter Remote Desktop. Microsoft bundled with their latest release of Windows a neat little tool to do just that, Remote [...]

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How to Export and Import Keywords in Lightroom

So you’ve spent countless hours adding keywords to all of your pictures in Lightroom and now you want to be able to share these keywords with friends or would like to transfer them to another catalog in your computer or would like to back them up. The guide below will walk you through the [...]

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How to Enable the Word Counter Toolbar in Word

This guide will walk you through the simple process of enabling the word counter toolbar in Microsoft Word. This feature is available in Word 2003 and older. This is a great feature for anyone who is trying to stay within a certain number of words while typing, by enabling this toolbar you will be able [...]

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How to Display Full Paths in Windows Explorer

This guide is for Windows XP users who would like ability to view the full path of a directory in both the Address Bar and the Title Bar of a given window. Windows XP defaults to displaying the folder name alone in the Title bar and the Address bar, if you’re like me and would [...]

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How to Display File Extensions in Vista

By default Windows Vista does not show you the extension for the files listed in Windows Explorer, although inconvenient for some I believe there is a good reason for this default setting; folks who are unaware of file extensions may mistakenly rename a file which can render it useless unless that user remembers [...]

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My Name is Gilberto J Perera and I'm the editor behind Gil's Method. I started this blog to help relatives with computer questions. Since then the blog has grown to the collection of articles you see today, I hope that you find this blog useful and that you come back again.

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