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Control the volume of sound easily

October 18, 2006

Sounds on my computer seem to be different depending on the application that is used to play the sounds.

Windows Vista Release Candidate 2 Download

October 7, 2006

Microsoft finally released the second release candidate of their upcoming Windows Vista operating system.

Change the Windows Thumbnail Preview Size

October 2, 2006

Well this is just a little registry hack that changes the size of the thumbnails of images that are displayed in windows explorer by default.

Windows Vista RC1 64-bit client download

September 27, 2006

Until yesterday it was only possible to download the 32-bit client version of the release candidate 1 of Windows Vista.

Add PC Wide Keyboard Shortcuts

September 17, 2006

Keyboard shortcuts make our lifes easier, hitting Win +M is nicer than to minimize every windows by hand.

How to dump all USB files without the user knowing

September 15, 2006

USBdumper runs silently as a background process once started and copies the complete content of every connected usb device to the system without the knowledge o

Bypass Microsoft Software WGA Checks

September 14, 2006

I wrote an article some days ago about a way to download the latest Microsoft software from Microsoft.

How to get a product key for Vista RC1

September 14, 2006

Beta and release candidate versions of Windows Vista, Microsofts latest operating system, can be download from the official Microsoft Vista website but getting

Resize any window to predefined size

September 12, 2006

Sizer is a great freeware application that lets you resize any window to a predefined size.

Copy Paste with middle mouse button

September 11, 2006

I received an email some days ago from a reader who would like to know if there was a program for Microsoft windows that would replicate the middle mouse functi

How to add My Computer to the Task Bar

September 10, 2006

This little tweak is really helpfull if you happen to have many windows open and would like to access a hard drive on your computer quickly.

Windows Vista RC1 available

September 7, 2006

Despite the latest rumors of postponing the released of the release candidate of Microsofts upcoming Windows Vista operating system a download link for the rele

Enhance your desktop with Samurize

September 3, 2006

The classic Windows desktop looks really boring, you can set a background image, edit some icons and enable some effects.

Windows Vista Price Leaked

August 31, 2006

What would we do without online retailers who are quick at adding new products and at the same time confirm the price of the product this way.

Windows Vista Pre RC1 Released

August 29, 2006

Microsoft released a new version of their upcoming Windows Vista operating system called Pre RC1 which means this should be the last version before the release

Disable Low Disk Space Warnings in Windows

August 19, 2006

Windows popups a balloon tip with a "Low Disk Space - You are running out of Disk Space" warning everytime a hard drive goes below 200 megabytes of disk space.

Assign Drive Letters to Folders

August 18, 2006

This tip is really great if you have some folders on your computer that you are working very often with.

Get rid of unwanted files, cache and cookies

August 4, 2006

Panicwipe is a one click solution to delete unwanted files securely from your system.

How to mount an ftp server as a drive in Windows

August 3, 2006

The following tip might be useful for all the webmasters out there and everyone else who is having access to a ftp drive on the internet.

Remove Unnecessary Entries From The New File Menu

August 3, 2006

You see lots of file types when you right click and select new from the context menu.

Restore Accidentally Deleted Files with Restoration

August 2, 2006

IÂ´am sometimes deleting files holding down the shift-key without thinking much about it.

Tune Windows with Fresh UI

August 1, 2006

The windows tuning freeware Fresh UI has been released in a new version and I thought this would be a good moment to write an article about the software.

Vista Voice Recognition gone awry Video

July 31, 2006

You might have heard this story before.

How to enhance the Windows Registry

July 27, 2006

Accessing keys in the registry is a lot of work, because there is no way to enter the path to the key directly.

Start your favorite applications with one click

July 26, 2006

Microsoft Groupbar is a freeware application for windows xp that offers an enhanced window management capability.

Backup your data with Drive Image XML

July 24, 2006

Chris asked me yesterday if I knew of a good freeware backup program for windows and I replied to him that Syncback would be such a tool.

How to remove past icons from the taskbar

July 23, 2006

You have uninstalled the program completly and are sure that no reference is left on your computer.

Check your Hard Drives with HDD Health

July 23, 2006

Hard drives are critical components in every personal computer.

How to create new context menu options

July 21, 2006

The context menu pops up when you right click an item giving you some options based on the extension of the file.

Backup or Restore Windows XP without new activation

July 18, 2006

You have thirty days to activate a new installation of Microsoft Windows XP before it stops working until you finally activated the installation.

Change the Windows XP Boot Graphic

July 10, 2006

DonÂ´t you hate that boring Windows XP boot screen ? Would not it be nice to have a great skin for that screen ? If you answered the questions with yes bootsk

Microsoft Private Folder 1.0

July 6, 2006

Microsoft apparently released a new piece of software called private folder today.

Virtual Desktops and Windows Xp

July 5, 2006

Linux users are still laughing at windows users who were never able to experience how powerful a virtual desktop system might be.

Windows shut down takes ages? Try Profile Hive Cleanup Service

July 4, 2006

Are you experiencing long shut down times ? Is it taken some minutes after you click on shut down before windows finally shuts down your computer ? This problem

Pirated Keys only cause 80% of all WGA failures

July 4, 2006

You all know windows genuine advantage (wga) which checks if you are running a legit copy of windows xp on every startup and when you try to download certain to

How To fix slow hard drives

July 3, 2006

If you think that your IDE hard drives are slow you might want to check their transfer mode by going into Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager.