The Windows registry is growing with every piece of software and system changes and never gets reduced again on its own. While this is not a problem for most users it could become for users who make lots of changes to their system. A huge registry is slowing down system load which is actually the number one reason why a user should check his registry from time to time and compress it so that it system load time gets reduced again.

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I’m posting weekly software updates to keep everyone up to date on what software was released in the last seven days to make it easier for everyone to just go right to their favorite software developer and download the latest version of their software.

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If your itching to get your hands on the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 you could try the following fool-proof method that downloads the new service pack right from the Microsoft Windows Updates server. Currently, only a beta version for Windows Vista is available but that is probably better than nothing at this time.

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I was looking for a way to turn on and off Internet Radio while in applications that were running in fullscreen. I think I mentioned that I’m playing Team Fortress 2 at the moment with a few Buddies of mine. We use Teamspeak to communicate while playing. It happens that I’m the only one in Teamspeak which is why I start Internet Radio and leave it running in the background while playing alone.

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If you share a computer with several other users you might have noticed that it is not possible to set a differing screen resolution, refresh rate and color depth for each user. Windows XP forces each user to use the same resolution, refresh rate and color depth which is a great annoyance.

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