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Top Ten secret hidden vista tips

December 21, 2008 by Jason

These are some uncommon but very useful tips tricks & hacks for windows vista to enhance the user experience in windows vista.

Enable Auto-Logon in Windows Vista (Warning: Security Risk)

a) click Start and type ‘netplwiz’ or click that name on the Start menu
b) in the GUI window that comes up, uncheck the “Users must enter a username and password to use this computer” box
c) click ‘Apply’
d) in the new dialog box that opens type the name of the account you want to auto-logon by default (if the account is not normally passworded then it blank)
e) click OK and exit.

Remove ToolTips From Showing When You Mouse Over Something

a) start > run = “regedit”
b) HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer > Advanced
c) set “ShowInfoTip”=dword:00000000
d) exit and reboot Read More»

Optimize Firefox and IE Browsing Speed

December 09, 2008 by Jason

You really don’t need to tweak your browser in case you are using Firefox because it is a browser which has been specially designed for optimized and fast browsing but if you can make it even a little more fast that would certainly be a treat for you. Likewise there is a trick to make Internet Explorer 6 fast too. Browsers are designed to work with fast connections but with this trick even dial-up users can experience fast and smooth browsing.

Optimize Firefox and IE Browsing Speed

I shall be teaching you two tricks which work separately on Firefox and Internet Explorer. It doesn’t require you to be some expert rather all you have to do is change some registry values and you are done. I have also included a video tutorial for those who want to see it step by step visually. This is perhaps one of the oldest tricks to optimize Firefox and IE but it still works great.
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Blue screen troubleshooting tips for Windows

September 21, 2008 by Jason

Normally, the blue screen of death contains a driver name, and some addresses; if you’re lucky, removing that driver will do the trick. But what if there is no driver name on the BSoD? And what if you don’t have all the skills to play with crashdumps and debuggers?

In this case, Autoruns comes to the rescue. This is a graphical tool that allows you to disable/enable drivers in a very easy way.

The strategy:

1. Boot into safe mode (since the system is crashing when you attempt to boot normally);
2. Start Autoruns, and switch to the Drivers tab;
3. Go through the list, and uncheck the drivers that are suspicious;
4. Close the program, restart and boot normally

The steps above will be repeated until the system is able to boot correctly.

When that happens, remember what were the last changes you applied, and try to enable some drivers back - until you figure out which one of them was causing the issue. Read More»

Do You Want to Increase Your Internet Speed?

August 10, 2008 by Jason

A fast PC has little to do with the Internet speed up situation. Oftentimes, making simple adjustments to a computer will enable it to load web pages faster.

Clearing the clutter that gets downloaded into the PC or switching to a better Internet service provider that does not clog up PCs will often do the trick. But achieving an Internet speed up necessitates a number of things.

Internet Speed Up Pointers

The download speed often boils down to how well and how efficiently a site was created by its website designer. Many websites aren’t organized enough to allow for quick downloads. Some of them feature content that take ages to load, hence the sluggish Internet speed. Here are Internet speed up tips you should know that can help speed up download activities. Read More»

January 2008 Popular Tips for PcTipsBox - TOP10

February 01, 2008 by Jason

1. DirectX 10 for Windows XP - 2008
2. Hidden Browser in Windows XP
3. How to Use Check Disk in Windows Vista
4. Easy to make firefox run 10 times faster
5. Give XP the performance tools of Vista
6. Boosting Windows XP Performance
7. How to search for hardware device drivers download more effectively
8. Five Firefox Tips
9. How to Surf the Web Anonymously
10. Speed Up your Net
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Notepad time and date trick

January 03, 2008 by Jason

Easy and fun trick with your notepad. Lets try, now open a blank notepad file:

- Write .LOG as the first line of the file and press enter.

- Save your notepad file name and close it.

- Double-click again your notepad file to open notepad and opinion added that the date and time at the end of the file..WOOT !! And place the cursor on the next line. Read More»

10 Firefox Tricks

May 16, 2007 by Jason

i recently wrote about opening a firefox within a firefox. curious about chrome urls i did some reseaerch and came up with a list of 10 urls that will make your browser do some funky things. Read More»