Sometimes playing videos on your PC isn’t easy, particularly when they have been downloaded off the internet. This is normally because your PC doesn’t have the necessary codecs installed to play the video file in question. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video formats.
The quickest [...]

Lets face it, Hard Drives are dull. They are one of the most forgotten about computer components and hence most people don’t show their drives a lot of love. However, if you don’t put together a regular routine to keep your drive optimized then the rest of your system will suffer.

I can’t remember when I suddenly discovered that I could touch-type. I’ve probably been using computers for around 20 years (I’m old so I didn’t grow up with computers), but it was only a few years ago that I realised that overnight I could touchtype.
If you’re still only using two fingers on a computer [...]

Although Firefox is a great internet browser, it does have its flaws. One major flaw is its use of memory and the way it can increase over a browsing session as a result of memory leaks. Firefox 2 did a good job of fixing the majority of these leaks but many still exist, [...]

Sometimes even when you have multiple monitors it seems like there just isn’t enough space on your desktop. Windows XP likes to encourage multi-tasking but if you have a big PC session you can end up with multiple windows open that can make navigating around your desktop very hard.
I used to struggle, until I [...]