All Posts Tagged With: "Windows"
How to enable the DVD Library in Windows Vista Media Center
Iv’e spent a lot of time copying my DVD library to my computer’s Hard Disk to protect my disks and to save having to swap them around everytime I want to watch them. In Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, DVD content that was stored on the hard disk automatically appeared [...]
17Apr2007 | Tony Williams | 15 comments | Continued
Useful Internet Explorer 7 Addons
Although Internet Explorer 7 doesn’t have as many plugins or addons as Firefox, there are addons for IE7 that will cover off most of the features that users will need covering. Over the last couple of months I’ve been using IE7 as my main browser, because it’s the only one I’m allowed to use [...]
2Apr2007 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
Visual Tooltip: Get Vista Thumbnails With XP
Vista thumbnails are cool. I just realised today that the Vista thumbnails even show videos playing. Now you can create the experience with Windows XP with Visual Tootips, with a few tips curteousy of The How To Geek:
30Mar2007 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
Ten Tips And Tricks Every Vista User Should Know
Today’s tip was sent in by Al from VistaRewired. Al has put together a list of Ten Tips And Tricks Every Vista user Should Know. Although some of these aren’t strictly ‘tips’ they do provide interesting information. For instance, I finally discovered why my memory utilization is always high even though I have [...]
25Mar2007 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
Add Remote Desktop Access To Windows Vista Home Editions
Windows Vista Home really is the poor relative of the more featured Vista Business, Ultimate and Enterprise editions, as it misses out on a lot of useful functionality.
Luckily gHacks has come up with a way to provide at least Remote Desktop functionality to Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium, by using TightVNC which [...]
How To Do A Clean Windows Vista Install
If you are planning on purchasing the upgrade version of Windows Vista, you may be surprised to find that you can’t do a clean install of Vista, as it requires you to have XP running on the machine you want to upgrade and the installation process has to be run from within XP.
Luckily there is [...]
Great Guide To Disabling Windows Services
Windows XP is designed to cater for the unique tastes of millions of users, which means it supports and runs a lot of stuff that most users don’t need as Services. Turning off Services can be a risky affair if you don’t know what you are doing, although a big performance boost can be gained [...]
1Jan2007 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
100 Great Keyboard Shortcuts
If you’re a laptop user like me, then if you don’t know your main Keyboard Shortcuts then you’re making life hard for yourself. This great site has compiled a list of the Top 100. You might know most of these shortcuts, but not all I guess.
More: 100 Keyboard Shortcuts
Make Your Hard Drive Run Faster
We spend so much time worrying about the speed of Graphics Cards and Memory, we tend to forget about optimizing one important component of all PCS - the Hard Drive.
These 10 tips will help to speedup your Hard Drives and your file access times. The ten tips are:
1. Disable Short Filenames
2. Name Your Files [...]
Automatically Defragment Your Pagefile
Keeping your pagefile defragmented can provide a major performance boost. One of the best ways of doing this is to creat a separate partition on your hard drive just for your page file, so that it doesn’t get impacted by normal disk usage.
If you are unable to do this then another solution could be to [...]
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