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In Windows 7 or Windows Vista, whenever user creates a shortcut for a file or folder, the newly created shortcut by attaching a small arrow to the icon, and have the new shortcut name been placed or appended with a text of ” – Shortcut” suffix to the end of the original file or folder name.For example, creating a shortcut (by right clicking of the file and select “Create shortcut” or copy the file and “Paste shortcut”) of “My Digital Life.html” file will have a new shortcut pointing to “My Digital Life.html” original file, but the shortcut will be named as “My Digital Life – Shortcut.lnk” instead.
Users who prefer the created shortcut to have the exact same name with the original object, without the – Shortcut suffix been appended or added to the end of the original file name or folder name can use the following registry trick to disable and turn off automatic appending or adding of ” – Shortcut” suffix to the end of shortcut name.Run Registry Editor (RegEdit).
Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
In the right pane, double click on link registry value. Change the “link” binary value data to 00 00 00 00. Restart the computer. With the trick, the suffix ” – Shortcut” will disappear and no longer append to the shortcut name when created. However, it does not change the existing shortcut names. Note the the trick also works to remove “Shortcut To” prefix which is used to label to shortcut created in Windows XP or older Windows operating system.
Alternatively, copy and paste the following text to a text editor, save it as a file name with .reg extension, and run the file to merge the value to system registry, or just download ,
remove-shortcut-suffix-prefix.reg..Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

The much anticipating Microsoft Office 2010 public beta is scheduled to be available anytime now, and it appears that Microsoft has ready the Office 2010 beta page, which has gone live with all kind of useful information for people interested in the beta of Office 2010.
The Office Web Apps, the web-based Office productivity suite which serves as free online companions to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and allows users the freedom to view, create, and edit documents from a supported Internet browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari), is available and online for a while. In fact, everybody can In fact, everybody can now register and use Office Web Apps for free without invite
Unfortunately, the downloads of Office 2010 Beta, which widely rumored to be of build version 14.0.4622.1000, is not yet available. From the Office Beta site, three editions of Office 2010 will be available:
Office Home and Business 2010 beta with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, and Office Web Apps
Office Professional 2010 beta with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, Publisher and Office Web Apps.
Office Professional Plus 2010 beta (volume licensing only) with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, Publisher, Infopath, Communicator, SharePoint Workspace, and Office Web Apps.
According to Office 2010 Beta FAQ Office 2010 Beta is available in all of the following languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese (Simplified) and Japanese, and users are allowed to either upgrade from existing previous version of Office applications (except Outlook 2010 or Office SharePoint Workspace 2010 which previously known as Office Groove 2007), or customize to install Office 2010 Beta to coexist the Office 2007, Office 2003 or Office XP.
The beta version of Office 2010 will expire in October 2010, and no longer function after October 31, 2010. As with most other beta programs from Microsoft, users are required to activate the Office 2010 Beta with a valid and genuine product key, which will be displayed when users download the setup installer for Office 2010 Beta.
There are two main channels of distribution for Office 2010. Major fulfillment will be through Digital River, where the 25-character trial product key will be displayed on the “Download” and “Thank you” page, and sent via “Thank you” e-mail immediately after the download completed. For Businesses using Office 2010 Beta through CARE, a product key page will display the 25-character product key after beta registration.
Additionally, the Office 2010 Beta website is also set to become the new Office online companion website which will be hosted on office.com (currently been redirected to Office homepage on microsoft.com). Several contents such as free images and templates as well as getting started guide for new Office 2010 apps in new streamlined format have been posted online, and available for free download.

Internet Explorer, until recent versions of IE7 and IE8, does not actually save its browsing session, nor has the ability to restore opened windows or tabs in previous session. It means that if the IE process or browser window or tab crashes, exits suddenly, terminates unexpectedly, or shutdown accidentally, all open browser windows and tabs will be closed and lost, together with the web pages’ URLs.

Sometimes, there is a need to reboot and restart the computer, but there is many IE windows or tabs opened, user will have to either copy each URLs from all the IE windows in a temporary text file, or bookmark each and every IE windows so that these URLs or link locations can be opened and visited again in future. The task is pretty annoying and troublesome. There are tools that able to automates the task to save and restore the browsing session in IE.

Do note that IE7 and IE8 has already incorporates re-open last browsing tabs session restore feature, probably won’t require any add-on, extension or additional program.

BaoBau IESessions

BaoBau IESessions is a convenient alternative to the Internet Explorer Favorites that can save browser sessions for future use. It makes possible to transfer browser sessions across computers and even different browser versions (session in non-tabbed browser will be opened as a set of tabs in tabbed browser, vice versa, tabbed browser’s session will open up as many windows in non-tabbed browser), and allow export and saving of IE browsing sessions to a file to send by e-mail, save to to USB flash memory stick or export to Amazon S3 Storage (fee payment required for online backup).

Once IESessions is installed, it’s integrated into IE browser, and can be accessed via IESessions icon in the Internet Explorer toolbar or via Tools -> IESessions menu. Once press the “Save Current” button, user can name the saved session a new name, or use the default name. All of the URLs that are open in all tabs and windows are saved for a single session. Session can be restored and loaded by double clicking on a saved session or click on Load button.

One advantage of IESessions over the built-in IE7 and IE6 session saver and restorer is that it allow multiple browsing sessions to be saved, viewed, managed, edited and restored. User can manage the stored URLs of each session, open just one single web page from the session, or delete unwanted or potentially causing problem URLs from the session.

IE Sessions supports Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP or Windows 2000. For Windows Vista and Windows 7, user will have to install IESessions into one of the following location for IESessions to work properly to save the browsing sessions especially when Protected Mode and User Account Control (UAC) is turned on, as IESessions stores sessions history into program folder, which requires administrator’s rights to write into.

C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\IESessions\

IE Session Saver is a software utility that lets users save and restore the IE windows that are currently been using. Best of all, IE Session Saver allows users to save and store multiple sessions history, which can be viewed to check what links or URLs in the session, and restored independently.

IE Session Saver works from both main program window and notification system tray icon. User can simply just click on “Save Links” (Save Session at system tray) to save the currently browsed web pages in all IE windows. To restore all web pages, just select the session to restore, and click “Restore Session” to open all last opened web pages in Internet Explorer web browser again.

Do note that IE Session Saver works best ONLY FOR IE6 (Internet Explorer 6) or older/earlier Internet Explorer versions, and is NOT working well with IE8 in Windows 7

Free Video Downloader is a tiny application which allows users to download high definition video files from YouTube and Wrzuta.pl. The program has been designed based on multithreading architecture that allows the users to download or convert many files at the same time.

The downloaded Video files are saved in original format or can be converted to other popular audio and video formats including AVI, MP4, MOV, MP3, WAV and etc. In addition, it also allows the users to convert their favorite video files from the hard disk.

The Free Video Downloader works well on Windows platform, e.g. Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista. program does not require installation and all the settings are written to INI file, therefore the user’s just need to extract ZIP archive to any folder or portable devices and double click on fvd.exe file to execute it. To download and save a video file, the users just need to paste the video’s URL into the application, click “Get/Convert” and it will proceed to download the video file into the designated folder.

Previously we mentioned about Fast Empty Folder Finder that can help to clean up empty folders in your desktop system, but in case you are not truly satisfied with it and needs a relatively simple one, here is an alternative utility that you can try. Named as Folder Vanity Remover, it scans and detects any empty folders that occupy your local drives and removes them all within seconds or minutes depending on the directories capacity and folders quantity.
Once download and run the utility, you will be brought to a very simple interface. Without any installation and setup required, just browse to the respective directories followed by a button click and it will execute the scanning immediately. Besides the main folder, it will also scan for all the sub-folders and give you the scanning results with both the number of folders being scanned as well as those that will be removed. Take note that before the scanning started, it will prompt you for confirmation if you are sure to delete those detected empty folders and once you click yes, the process will not able to be reverted to recover the deleted folders at a later stage. Impressively, I scanned through my C:\ drive and out of 12310 total folders being scanned, there are more than 500 empty folders being detected and deleted, that otherwise will stay in your system drive without your awareness.