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) may be installed on the PC. Indeed, UBCD comes in handiest when the normal operating system refuses to boot.
You Name It: The current version of UBCD contains 121 tools, divided into 21 categories, as follows. Each tool runs in isolation, as if it were the only tool on the CD (just as if the tool were on its own floppy disk). A master menu program boots up first. It lets you choose the tool you want to run, and then it boots that tool. (To run another tool, simply reboot and go through the main menu again.) Read More»
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When you connect to another computer with Windows XP, it checks for any Scheduled tasks on that computer - a fairly useless task, but one that can add up to 30 seconds of waiting on the other end - not good! Fortunately, it’s fairly easy to disable this process. Read More»
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When you want to put a document online, or distribute it via e-mail, and you need it to look exactly the way it looks on paper, then PDF is the way to go — and the standard application used to view PDF files is, of course, Adobe Reader.
Unfortunately, according to Adobe, Vista doesn’t support older versions of Reader, and the current version, Adobe Reader 8 (released in November, 2006), will be updated for Vista sometime “in the first half” of 2007. So what’s the story in the meantime?
Problem: Adobe Reader 8 doesn’t work with Vista
Well, if you’re a Vista user and you decide to install Reader 8, the first hint of any problem may come when you get an error message like “The temp folder on a drive was full . . . ” or “The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. . . .” Read More»
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