System Partitioning is a little scary, especially if your as stupid as me and don’t back your files up before you start. I have been using Ubuntu installed through Wubi, a very convenient and efficient way for anyone to try out Linux beyond a Live CD or Virtual machine. While Wubi is great It does [...]

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One way to improve a product is to invite critics (common folk, not the usual computer experts) to give them a sneak peak of it’s successor and use their criticism to build a better product. Microsoft convinced hardened Windows Vista critics to take a sneak peek at the new Windows operating system codenamed Mojave. A [...]

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Windows Vista users may be surprised to know that they actually have two different versions of the places bar in Windows Explorer. The places bar provides access to several links on the system, for example to the desktop and the My Documents folder. Windows Vista users can either see the old five locations on the [...]

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I have covered various applications before that download all related Windows Updates from Microsoft to a computer. Some that I mentioned are the Autopatcher Updater, Project Dakota and Offline Update. It’s never a problem to have more options and I would like to add another application to the mix. Windows Updates Downloader was initially designed [...]

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Lets talk about inefficiency. Microsoft just released an update that adds five words to the English dictionary file that has an impressive size of 56 Megabytes. The five words that are added by this update that is available through a Knowledge Base article and Windows Update are “Friendster”, “Klum”, “Nazr”, “Obama” and “Racicot”. The update [...]

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If you want to create a System Restore point in Windows you need to navigate deeply into the Windows Control Panel to do that. That’s not comfortable if you want to quickly create a system restore point before making changes to the system. A solution for this is provided by Doug Knox who created the [...]

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For those people who use Windows Media Center, it can be a pain to have to navigate around the program using the mouse, especially if you’re watching a movie and you need to access a particular feature. What many users don’t know or realize is that Windows Media Center has a whole lot of keyboard [...]

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Ever wondered what and how the Windows Search Indexer is indexing your files in Windows Vista ? Wonder no more the Indexer Status Gadget displays information about the current indexing status and the number of indexed files in the Windows Vista sidebar. Don’t be surprised to see 100K or even more items in the index. [...]

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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 [...]

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