My new computer monitor arrived yesterday. It is an hp computer monitor with 24″ for maximum screen space. Pretty much feels like working with two 19″ monitors only that you got everything on one screen now. One thing that I noticed after connecting the new computer monitor to my computer system was that the quick [...]

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Categories: Knowledge, Windows

I have been experiencing a problem with the auto-hide feature of the Windows Taskbar for the last two weeks or so. Auto-hide would work fine for some time but eventually the Windows Taskbar would just lock up and not auto-hide anymore. This was sometimes caused by applications that have been started but the rest of [...]

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Categories: Knowledge, Windows

Many users do still use an administrators user account in Windows XP instead of a more secure limited account. It is comfortable to work as an administrator all the time but successful attacks will be more devastating that way either. Instead of working with a limited account most of the time and an administrators account [...]

Tags: administrator account, limited account, lower privileges, psexec, runas, security tips, system security, windows tips, windows-xp
Categories: Security, Windows

If you want to switch between directories in the Windows command line you need to type in the path directly most of the time especially if the files are located on different partitions. The tab feature is great for completing a file or directory name but there is no option to switch directories fast.
Wherever Change [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

Desktop Renamer is a lightweight software that can rename or reset the names of the Windows Recycle Bin, My Computer, My Documents and My Network Places. The software provides a graphical user interface for renaming those four system icons in Windows.
There is however a direct way to rename those icons – and many more [...]

Tags: desktop icons, my documents, my network places, rename my computer, rename recycle bin, system icons, windows tips
Categories: Windows

Moo0 RightClicker is a software tool that enhances the Windows right-click context menu in many ways. The software program is compatible to Windows XP and Windows Vista and provides some of the functionality that the shareware version of Moo0 RightClicker provides. The tool adds several new entries to the right-click menu that opens when right-clicking [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

The Windows XP Startmenu is divided into a left and right part. The left part can contain personal folders and files while the right part containing system folders like My Documents, My Music or My Pictures does not seem to be editable at all. Windows provides options to disable the folders from being displayed in [...]

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Categories: Windows