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Move Buttons In The Windows Taskbar

Some people like the order of the programs in the taskbar to be, shall we say, predictable. I am one of them.

Usually I achive this by opening the programs after a reboot in a certain order, but every once in a while I need a different program (urgently) first – or Explorer crashes – and then I am out of luck.
My hand still guides the mouse to the spot where I usually have the item, but then I need to spend extra time finding out where it is now.
I came across programs a while ago that would re-shuffle the items, but I didn’t want to spend the memory to have that feature. But I gave up now.
I just installed one, and I should have done so a long time ago.

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How To Get An Image Out Of A Microsoft Word Document In The Original Quality

There are a few ways to try to get an image out of a Microsoft Word document.
You can try the copy and paste method or even go as far as taking a screenshot of it.
It seems that the best method to get at the originally embedded image is to save the document as a webpage – html. Don’t use the .mht option in the save as dialog, but make sure to select the htm/html.
This will create the document as an html with a sub-folder that contains the image(s). The subfolder will often have other files and maybe even the image(s) in multiple sizes, but just pick the largest one and that seems to do the trick pretty well.