This is a neat little trick that will help you open firefox without actually double clicking on its icon or running it from the stat menu. With this trick you can open firefox and a specific page or pages using a special RUN Command.

1. First Go to your Run Command using your method. A couple of shortcuts are:
2. Keyboard: Windows Key + R or Click Start then Run
3. Then typ: run firefox + website address (example: firefox josephestrada.net) See screenshot:
4. 
5. You can also open multiple websites to open tabbed sites by typing:
6. firefox josephestrada.net google.com
7. See screenshot:
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I find this trick useful and just cool =)

If your computer is taking forever to power on or restart then you might have one too many programs that are set to run at startup automatically. This can hog up your memory and your PCs overall performance. A quick fix would be to disable the items you don’t need or at least do not need each and every time the computer is turned on.

1. Click on Start
2. Run
3. Type: msconfig
4. Enter

This will open the System Configuration Utility

1. Select the Start Up tab
2. The command column will show you the directory path of the item
3. This should help you choose which items you want to disable
4. Unselect the items you don’t want to run during startup

Tweaking the System Startup items will help you preserve memory for the apps that you really want to use them for. Freeing the memory will also keep your PC running happy and healthy.

The Windows Quick Launch Toolbar is designed to help you launch applications, photos, folders, email or any other item in a very “quick” way. It’s a very useful tool and very easy to use. It amazes me that alot of Windows XP users do not utilize this feature. In my opinion its a necessity when using XP and is a real time saver.

If you don’t already see the Quick Launch Toolbar on your Taskbar then follow these directions:

1. Right click on your Taskbar
2. Highlight Tools
3. Select Quick Launch

After selecting Quick Launch you should see new icons on your Taskbar. By default the Quick Launch Toolbar is only set to display 3 icons and the rest are hidden. You will need to tweek it to fit your style. Follow these directions on tweeking it to taste just the way you like.

1. Place your mouse cursor over the dotted line
2. Your mouse cursor should turn into an arrow with two directions.
3. Left click and drag to the right to expand the size
4. Release the mouse when your desired size is reached. The result should be something like this:
5. Of course it will depend on how many items are already on your Quick Launch Toolbar.

1. Hover your mouse cursor over the icon you want to delete
2. Right Click
3. Highlight Delete and Left Click. See screenshot:
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1. To add items to your Quick Launch Toolbar
2. You simply just select an Item
3. Drag to the Toolbar.
4. And Drop to where you want the item to be

When you hover your mouse cursor over an item on the toolbar it will show you a description of that item.
If you don’t like that description you can change it to anything you want:

1. Select an Item
2. Right Click
3. Select and Click on Properties
4. Select the “General” tab
5. Change the text on the top of the “General” tab screen to whatever you want.
6. Here’s an example:

Adding your URL to Google will help getting your site recognized by Google and other search engines. However, adding your website into the Google’s Webmaster Tools will also speed up the time it takes for Googlebot to start crawling your site. It will also show you various different reports that will help you with tracking and promoting your website. It is a must for any webmaster.

To add your site to Google’s Webmaster Tools you will first need a Google account. If you don’t have a Google account as of yet follow these directions: (Note: Skip to Part 2 if you already have a Google account)

Part 1

1. Go to: http://www.google.com
2. Click on Sign-In
3. Click on “create one for free” and complete the form
4. After creating your Google account, log-in.

Part 2

1. Log-In to your Google account if you haven’t already
2. Click on “My Accounts” from the top right portion of the Google homepage
3. Navigate through the options and look for “Webmaster Tools” then click on it
4. From Google’s Webmaster Tool’s Dashboard type in your website’s address and click on “add site” see screenshot.
5. After clicking on Add Site you will be taken to the Overview which will give you several options on how you can track Google’s tracking/indexing status for your recently added website.
6. You can add as many websites to Webmaster Tools.

It may take awhile for your Google to start crawling and indexing your website. It can take anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of month. The best thing to do is to start updating your website/blog as often as you can. Daily updates is recommended, but if you can’t do that at least once a week will do.

Another thing you might consider at this time is adding a sitemap into Google as it will help Googlebot crawl your pages more accurately.