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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 10th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

Optimize Windows For Solid State Drives Usage

It might take some years from now on before most new computers will be shipped with Solid State Drives instead of conventional platter driven hard drives but the change is inevitable. SSDs of the current generation already achieve top read speeds but usually lack behind in write speeds. There are however a few tips on [...]

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Categories: Hardware, Tutorials Basic, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 26th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Manage Windows Services

Managing Windows services is a painless efforts because the Microsoft tool services.msc does a decent enough job. It provides an interface that is displaying all existing services, their status and enough options to change the status easily. But there is always room for improvement. System administrators for instance would love an option to save different [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 10th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Make Desktop Icons Transparent

Switching themes in Windows can have a few side effects that only become apparent after working with the system for some time. Yesterday’s switch to the Royale theme for Windows XP has the negative side effect that the text of the icons on the computer’s desktop were not transparent but showing in black which did [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 17th, 2008
  • Comments: 14

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 [...]

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Categories: Windows

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