Block windows update from automatic updating to IE7
It seems that Microsoft added the upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 to the automatic upgrade feature of Windows XP.
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Ultrastar - Singstar like game for your PC
Have you ever played Singstar on the Playstation 2 ? It is a Karaoke like game that is great fun if you play it with some friends.
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Top XP Freeware that every user needs Part 2
I promised to write a second part of the article Top XP Freeware that every user needs and here it comes.
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Free Album Art Cover Downloader
Many portable media players and software players support album cover art which is displayed when a song is played from within the player.
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Nintendo Wii Launch Games
The Nintendo Wii will come out in the United States November 19th, 2006, in Japan on December 2nd, 2006 and in Europe on December 8th, 2006.
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Top XP Freeware that every user needs
Using Windows XP without those nifty little freeware programs is not a good idea.
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Triple Boot Vista, XP and Ubuntu
I like guides like the following.
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Burn Audio CDs using exotic audio formats
Most burning tools that support the creation of audio CDs support only the most common formats by default.
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Why you should not buy a Zune player
Before you judge the article by looking at the title read on and you may understand why I suggest that you do not buy one of the Zune players that are offered [
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Automatically sort files with Filesort
Do you have a folder with many files and file types in it ? Sorting those files reminds me a lot of two famous stories I heard when I was a child, namely those
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Playstation 3 Launch Titles
I thought it would be a nice idea to take a quick look at all of the Playstation 3 launch titles.
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Get rid of obsolete drivers
Did you ever upgrade the hardware of your computer with, lets say, a new graphic or sound card ? Did you know that the drivers and registry settings of the old
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Xbox 360 HD can be connected to your pc
Some scene guys apparently released a driver for Windows XP that makes it capable to connect and detect the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive that was released a few days a
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Join multiple video files into one
Websites sometimes split movies into smaller parts to make it easier for users with low bandwidth access to the internet to download the movies without facing p
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A Free Game for the Weekend: True Combat Elite
True Combat Elite is a total conversion of Enemy Territory.
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Faster Access to XP system tools
What do you do if you want to access one of the administrative programs in Windows XP ? You click through various menus most of the time to reach the destinatio
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An alternative uninstaller for Windows
The uninstaller that ships with Windows is slow and lacks functionality.
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Auto Window Manager
The freeware Auto Window Manager adds additional functionality to the way windows manages the windows it displays.
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Tiny Menus for Firefox
This tip is for those users who like to maximize the width and heights of web pages that they visit.
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Why it might be a good idea to use Open DNS
I decided to read more about open dns after I read Evertons article "Does open dns really speed up web pages" on his great website connected internet.
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Upgrade a Windows XP Recovery CD to a full installation one
Many hardware companies sell their systems with a windows xp recovery cd which makes it most of the time impossible to install that operating system on a differ
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Ipod Errors and Freezes - how to fix them
Ipods can be compared to small computers that thankfully do not run on a windows operating system.
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Move Special Folders like My Documents to a different path
If you want to move folders that are automatically created by windows xp on your c: drive to another path or folder you might face a problem.
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Realtime Anti-Phishing Add-on for Firefox gone bad
Phishing, as wikipedia puts it, is a criminal activity using social engineering techniques.
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Add Subway maps to your iPod
I don't like those big subway maps that you get for free when you visit cities like London, Paris or New York.
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How to get mail from all thunderbird accounts at once
The email client Thunderbird does not necessarily retrieve messages from all of your mail accounts at startup.
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How to disable game intro movies
I hate game intro movies with a passion.
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Southpark Nintendo Wii Episode
What is going on in Southpark ? After the highly successful World of Warcraft Episode the producers published a second episode that is centered around entertain
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Create your own mp3 ringtones
Most teens love ringtones, new ones, unique ones that none of their friends have.
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How to disable third party cookies in Firefox
The developers of Firefox removed the option to disable third party cookies in firefox 2.
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Add Defragment Now to the right-click menu
Defragmenting the hard drives of your computer is important especially for users who install lots of programs or perform lots of read and write operations on th
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How to add functionality to Windows Explorer
Windows Explorer is a basic file manager with severe limitations that make it rather painful to perform some operations using it - you know what I mean if you e
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Different Display Settings for each User in XP
Windows XP has the annoying habit of assuming that every user wants to run his operating system with the same screen resolution, color depth and refresh rate.
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Privacy and Security Add-ons for Firefox 2.0
I thought that it would be a nice idea to compile a list of privacy and security related add-ons for firefox 2.
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Windows Media Player 11 Download
Yesterday Microsoft released the new Windows media player 11 silently it seems.
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Create Automatic iTunes Playlists with the Filter
One of the blogs that I'm regularly visiting is Connected Internet created by my friend Everton Blair.
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IRC Chat Extension for Firefox
IRC, Internet Relay Chat, is one of the greatest communication platforms on the internet.
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Play Counterstrike in 2D
Most computer users do know Counterstrike even though they probably never played it.
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Use the Foxtor Extension for anonymous surfing
There are times when it is safer to remain anonymous on the internet - be it that you want to write something about your current company on the web, live in a c
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Danish Provider Tele2 forced to block allofmp3
Danish Provider Tele2 has to block access to the Russian mp3 website allofmp3 after loosing a civil lawsuit against the IFPI
(International Federation of the P
