"Up" Keyboard Shortcut for Windows Vista Explorer

The new Explorer window in Windows Vista doesn't have an Up button, which drives me completely batty. Thankfully I found a keyboard shortcut replacement.
Let's say I'm in my x:\wpmu\wp-content directory. Sure, I can usually click the "wpmu" part of the path and simulate the Up button, but it doesn't always work, especially if I've lowered the size of the window or tiled two windows beside each other.

This window is 600px wide, shouldn't I have an easier way to go Up? Turns out I do… if I just hit the following key combination:
Alt+Up
Ahhh, so much better… now I'm in the parent directory!

Note that this is also the quickest way to get to the Desktop folder… just keep hitting Alt+Up until you get to the right folder.
Other interesting keyboard shortcuts for Explorer:

• Alt+Right - Go forward
• Alt+Left- Go back
• Alt+D - Focus the address bar and select the current path.
• F4 - Pop up the dropdown in the address bar, actually somewhat useful.
• Alt+Enter - Properties of the selected file
• Ctrl+Mousewheel - change the size of the icons
• F11 - Put explorer into Fullscreen mode. Actually kinda weird, and I have no idea why this function is even there.

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Remove PartyPoker (Or Other Items) from the Internet Explorer Tools Menu

My friend made the huge mistake of downloading PartyPoker onto a laptop from work - even after he uninstalled it, the menu item still showed up. He was worried about getting caught by the IT people, so he asked me how to get rid of it.
It seems like every worthless application out there feels the need to infest the Tools menu in Internet Explorer with unwanted entries, and uninstalling the application almost never removes the menu item.
To get rid of this entry, and potentially any others in the list, we'll have to venture into the registry. Open up the registry editor by typing regedit into the run box.
Browse down to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Extensions
Under this key, you will see a lot of subkeys with really long names. Click on each one of them, and if you look in the right hand pane, you will see the menu text from the offending menu item. For instance, you can see in this screenshot that I've selected the key that contains the PartyPoker menu item.
Just right-click and Delete the keys that you don't want to show up. Restart Internet Explorer, and the menu item should be gone.
This tip should work for either IE6 or IE7


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Add Internet Explorer 7 Icon to the Desktop in Windows Vista

I'm sure many of you are thinking… can't I just make a shortcut? You are correct, that's the simplest way to do it… but the icon we're talking about today isn't a shortcut… it's the actual IE icon that used to exist in prior versions of Windows.
The main benefit to using this icon instead of a shortcut is that you can quickly get to the Internet Options page by right-clicking and choosing Properties.

You'll notice that you can also use "Start Without Add-ons", which is helpful for troubleshooting problems.
To add this icon back, we'll need to use a registry hack. You can either follow along and manually create the registry entries, or you can skip down further and just download the registry file.
Manual Registry Hack
Open regedit.exe using the Start menu search or run box, and then navigate down to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel

In the right-hand pane, add a new 32-bit DWORD value with the following name and value:

Key Name: {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}
Value: 0

You should be able to right-click on the desktop and choose Refresh, and the new icon should show up.

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Print Pages in Internet Explorer 7 Without Headers or Footers

The headers and footers that always print along with the page when printing a page can be irritating. I know very well what page it was I printed, so it's not useful to me to show the URL at the bottom of the page.
If you want to turn the headers off just for a one-time print, you can use the Print Preview window, and then click the button to "Turn headers and footers on or off", shown below.

If you want to permanently turn these options off, you can use the Page Setup option instead.

Just click on Page Setup, and then you should see this dialog.

You can just remove the text in the textboxes completely in order to get rid of the headers and footers, or you can change the options to display page numbers at the bottom, or really any combination you want.
Here's a full list of the options that you can use (You could also find these in the Vista help files, or possibly the IE7 ones)

&w - Window Title
&u - Page URL
&d - Date in short format
&D - Date in long format
&t - Time in regular format as shown on the clock
&T - Time in 24-hour format
&p - Current page number
&P - Total number of pages
&b - right align the next text. (You can see it in the default header, where &b is placed before the Page text)
&b[TEXT]&b - If you surround the text in &b on either side, it will center the text.
&& - A single ampersand (&)

You can combine these in any format you want. For instance you could do this:

I printed these &P pages on &d at &t

Which would give you something like this:

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Reset Open/Save Choice for Internet Explorer Downloads in Vista

If you've removed the checkbox from the "Always ask before opening this type of file" on the downloads window and now you no longer get the dialog that says "Do you want to open or save this file?" then you are in luck, because I've got the answer for you.
There is a registry setting that controls the list of which files you've chosen to automatically open, which means if you uncheck this box the default will be to always open the file, which is why you don't get the option to save the files anymore.

Manual Registry Hack
To manually make this change, we need to open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box, and then browse down to the following search key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\
AttachmentExecute\{0002DF01-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
Once there, you'll notice keys in the right-hand pane for each file type. To reset the setting for each, just delete that particular one from the list. The changes will be immediate.
Downloadable Reset All Download Choices Hack
If you want to just reset all of the choices, I've provided a registry hack file that will reset all of the choices for all file types. If you want more granular control you should use the manual method outlined above.
Note: Using this registry hack will delete information from your registry that isn't easily recoverable. You should consider doing a registry backup before doing this. Of course, if you are in the registry doing a backup, you may as well use the manual method.
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