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Did you know, you can rename your WindowsXP Start button text to something else? Some of you may already know that you can do that by edit your Explorer.exe file and change some value in your registry setting. But here comes an easy way to do that.
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If you have a slave drive that you would rather be fragmented by multiple CD ripping, might I suggest moving your temporary CD staging folder to the slave drive? Please note that this is a WEE bit of a security concern, since you are moving your personal...
Often I have sat at someone’s computer in a small office or home and found the internet service lacking. Basically, people set up their computers and local network in a way that makes their service much slower than it can be; this happens most often...
A fresh installation of Windows with all its updates and tweaks run’s fantastic for most people. Then, we start throwing gunk into the system, including antivirus programs, firewalls, etc. and all the garbage we collect from the slumasphere: the...
This list of free essential Windows programs will make the life of any developer or power user much easier.
7-Zip handles practically any zip version you could imagine. It will decompress tar, gz, rar, zip, bz2, rpm, arj, cab, cpio, 001, and deb files....
1. Open up your aero.msstyles file with resource hacker and click on variant then click on normal then click on 1033.
2. Save the 1033 file as a binary file.
3. Now open up winhex or any other binary file program that you use and go down to line 00023C43...
If you are a Vista user you will know that when you use the ALT+TAB function live thumbnails are displayed for the applications that you have running, which is very cool. Well, with a few registry tweaks you can make these thumbnails bigger and sexier.
To...
Mr Byte has produced a very clear guide to disabling the Windows key on keyboards. If you’re a keen gamer, this guide could prove handy as the Windows Key is right bang in the middle of important gaming keys like CTRL and ALT, so it can be easily...
What’s the first thing you do when you see a baffling error message in Windows? If you are anything like me you’ll pick out the keywords and look it up on Google. That’s fine when it’s something simple but all too often error...
The Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) is a huge collection of system diagnostic and recovery tools that are conveniently arranged on a single CD. These tools work on any Intel-compatible PC. Since the CD is bootable, it doesn’t matter what operating system(s)...