Working with services in Windows regularly can be quite the challenge. The official way to manage Windows services is to open Services manager. Once the Services manager has been opened it can be used to start and stop services or to change their startup type. The services manager is fine if the process is done [...]
How To Remove Third Party Services In Windows
Sometimes things go bad. You try to uninstall a software program that you do not longer need or recover a computer system after a hard drive crash only to find out that some traces of old programs are still in the system. One of these places is Services in the Windows operating system. What are [...]
Secure Windows Services Configuration
I just spend most of the morning installing Windows XP on a computer system. While the installation itself takes some time the configuration afterwards is surely the most time consuming part of the process. Windows XP comes with many services enabled that are usually not needed by most users and that can allow hackers to [...]
Windows Live Wave 3, One Day On…
The public beta release of Windows Live Wave 3 was released yesterday. I’ve had a day to play around with it and am really enjoying the new features and capabilities of the software suite.
The New UI
I’m a little undecided on the new look for the Windows Live suite.
On one hand I don’t like to critique [...]
Create Your Own Custom RSS News Feed
Users sometimes ask me how I manage the software updates list that I maintain and publish on every Wednesday and I always reply that I use mostly RSS News Feeds for it. I never mentioned that I can use them for almost any website I come across no matter if it offers an RSS News [...]
Control Services From The System Tray
Most Windows Services do not have to be controlled on a regular basis. There is simply no need to start or stop them regularly. This is true for most services but it could come in handy to be able to quickly start or stop selected services and Multi Service Controller is providing the means for [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Jul 23rd, 2008
- Comments: None
Catalog your books with Goodreads
I’ve previously written about Librarything, a book cataloging service, and now here I am again with another similar service, Goodreads. This service is very similar, but there are a few features which I like more here, making this a better solution for me.
The basics are the same. Fnd your books, add them, share them, indicate [...]
