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 [...]

Categories: Knowledge, Windows

You find many tutorials on the Internet about installing fonts that shipped with Windows Vista in Windows XP. There are literally hundreds of websites that explain how to change the look and feel of Windows XP so that it resembles a Windows Vista Theme but only a handful that tell you how to use and [...]

Categories: Software, 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 [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

I never quite understood the users who wanted to turn the visual appearance of their operating system into another operating system. The most popular conversions are without question available for Windows XP which can be turned into pretty much any other operating system visually, well except for Commodore C-64 maybe. The Vista Live Shell Pack [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Users who want to change the Windows XP theme are left with two choices. They can go the official way and use the few official Windows XP themes that have been released by Microsoft or they can patch the uxtheme.dll file to be able to use user created XP themes. The first way is the [...]

Categories: Windows

Users with many folders on their system might experience an annoying problem in Windows Vista which has already plagued many Windows XP users as well. Windows remembers by default the folder view settings of 200 local folders and 200 network folders initially. Windows Vista remembers 5000 folders which are usually enough for most users. Some [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Windows XP users who update their system through automatic updates or the Windows update service might be in for a surprise. Microsoft has upgraded their Windows Genuine Advantage software for Windows XP and started its deployment since the beginning of this week. The new WGA for Windows XP mimics the annoyances that Windows Vista users [...]

Categories: Windows

Laptop users love batteries that last longer. At least those laptop users who use their laptop on the road, those desktop replacement laptops are usually to big and heavy to be carried around anyway. One of the best ways to extend battery life is to reduce the cpu frequency of the laptop. That’s usually not [...]

Categories: Mobile Computing, Notebooks, Software

Microsoft introduced a phishing filter in Internet Explorer 7 which checks every website the users visits with a remote database to prevent that phishing websites get accessed. Phishing websites are fake websites that look like a popular website but have the purpose to record credit card information and login credentials of a user to fuel [...]

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