The so called Places Bar is a sidebar on the right side of Open and Save dialogs in Windows and Office that provide the user with a way to access specific folders faster. It shows My Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents, My Computer and My Network Places by default and there is no apparent way [...]
Fix for Nwiz.exe Causing High CPU Load
Nwiz.exe is a component that gets installed when Nvidia video card drivers are installed on a system. It is automatically started with Windows which can be checked with the msconfig command. It is only beneficial on systems that use multiple monitors or tv out settings and can be easily disabled without causing ill or harm [...]
Find out why text on a website is not properly displayed
Whenever I visit Chinese websites I stumble upon strange characters that do not resemble Chinese at all. When I visit the Chinese Google homepage for instance I see lots of blocks of hex code pairs but no Chinese characters at all. Since I’m probably not the only one with that problem I would like to [...]
How to close multiple windows in the taskbar at once
New folders are always opened in a new window on my system because I think it’s a comfortable way to work with folders and windows. I never liked the default way of opening a new folder in the same window. This spawns a lot of windows when I navigate to a folder like the Firefox [...]
Auslogics Registry Defrag
The Auslogics Disk Defrag software is a popular hard disk defragmentation tool and many users who like it will probably also find the Registry defragmentation tool useful. The Windows Registry is not defragmented during hard disk defragmentation because it is not possible to defragment files that are open for exclusive access.
Auslogics Registry Defrag reduces the [...]
5 Windows Tweaks That Do NOT Work
Information that are added on the Internet hardly ever go away which is highly problematic if the information is not correct. It becomes even more disturbing in sectors where everyone can have his say and it is not really a secret that most PC users have their list of recommended tweaks for Windows.
It’s fairly interesting [...]
Don’t Reset!
This is a incredibly handy little tip that I found in APC Magazine.
When you’ve been working on your computer for a day or two and it’s starting to slow down and is struggling to open the start menu then it’s probably time to reset. Resetting clears the RAM and gets the system running fresh again.
The [...]
