Daily product hacking tips and tricks

You have installed Internet Explorer 8 but feel disappointed and want to uninstall it? Here are the instructions to uninstall IE8 on Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Uninstall IE8 on Windows XP

1. Click “Start” button and select “Control Panel“
2. Select “Add or Remove Programs“
3. Find and select “Windows Internet Explorer 8” from the list of available applications.
4. Click the “Remove” button.
5. Restart computer.

Uninstall IE8 on Windows Vista

1. Click “Start” button and select “Control Panel“.
2. Select “Programs” (or “Program and Features” if you’re using the Classic View).
3. Select “View installed updates” (it will be under the Tasks column if you’re using the Classic View).
4. Find and select “Windows Internet Explorer 8” from the list of available updates.
5. Click the “Uninstall” button at the top of the list.
6. Restart computer.

This is just a small customization but pretty useful for people who like to play with settings and love doing tweaks and tricks with Windows. Supposedly you belong to that group who love exploring different hard disk drives or removable disks more than personal documents' folder. Then why don't we try to set the Windows Explorer to start from My Computer instead?
To do this, navigate to Windows Explorer in the Start Menu (it’s in the Accessories folder). Then edit the properties and change the target to read:%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /root,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
But this will make explorer open folders/drives in new windows instead of the current window.
This target will fix it:
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,::{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d}
Happy exploring.