Ban Time-Wasting Web Sites

Two ways to keep yourself from thoughtlessly scampering down the rabbit hole that is the web by limiting your access to day-sucking web sites.

Make Apps Always Open Maximized

From the How-To-Geek. It can be annoying when opening an application and having to resize or maximize the screen. This can be especially annoying when you want to see all of the data in an app like Access or Excel.

To fix it all you need to do is right-click on the application shortcut and select Properties. Under the Shortcut tab change the dropdown next to Run to Maximized.