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Uncovering trash
Suppose you want to want to move some items to the Recycle Bin but the trash can is covered by windows. You have to minimize those windows first to get them out of the way, right? Wrong.
Just drag the items you want to trash onto a blank spot of the taskbar at the bottom of your screen and, keeping the mouse button down, let them hover there for a second.
The cursor will turn into one of those prohibitive circles with a slash through it, but more importantly all open windows will disappear off your desktop, letting you drop the items into the now accessible Recycle Bin.
The windows will then return as they were previously.
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TWEAK OF THE WEEK: Controlling XP's Control Panel
If you don't like the way the Control Panel opens from Window XP's Start Menu into a series of windows, you can change it to give you a sub-menu of control panels you can select directly.
Right-click the Start button and select Properties. Go to the Start Menu page and click the Customize button. Open the Advanced page. You'll see Control Panel with three options listed. Select the middle one, Display as Menu. Click OK and OK.

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[brendandonhu]

FOr uncovering trash, you could also use the delete key, or the "Desktop" button in the Quick Launch bar.

[bobbi]

Just a thought, but when you delete stuff it automatically goes to the recycle bin. You don't need to uncover the trash bin and drag and drop.

You can bypass the recycle bin though, by doing shift-delete.

Also, network stuff never goes to the recycle bin, even if you drag it there! : )