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Top 10 Tiny & Awesome Windows Utilities - Windows

Top 10 Tiny & Awesome Windows Utilities - Windows

How To Troubleshoot Your Windows With The MSconfig Utility | MakeUseOf.com Most of us take pains over our personal computers almost with the same love as we would have for a pet. Most of us get equally concerned when the computer takes ‘ill’. If the source and the reasons for the problem elude us, concern warps into a head banging frenzy. It could be a failed device driver, or an application which refused to start up or it could be one of the many background processes which decided to conk out. This first aid lies in a Windows System utility called the System Configuration Utility (MSconfig.exe). The System Configuration Utility (or MSconfig.exe) is used to manage the processes that happen when the Windows operating system boots up. The technique we use is called a clean boot. How to clean boot your computer? Windows XP Click on Run (or WinKey+R) ““ In the Open field of the Run dialogue box enter msconfig. On the General tab of the System Configuration Utility, click on the button marked Selective Startup. The Services tab is where we should go next.

The First 10 Free Apps to Install on a New Windows PC It’s about that time for me again: my desktop is a couple years part its prime and my laptop just died (no display, no hard drive activity, no wifi, and a recent history of turning off suddenly for no good reason – those are all bad signs, right?), which means the near future holds a new PC for me. Which means a blank slate on which to impose my computer-using will. Setting up a new computer goes through five stages: Denial: I’ve got a new computer. Once you’ve installed all the updates, uninstalled all the crapware, entered your wifi password, and set your screensaver, it’s time to make that shiny new PC do stuff, and for me the doing starts with installing a pretty fixed list of free applications. 1. If you did the right thing and uninstalled Norton or McAfee (the two antivirus programs PC manufacturers get paid big bucks to include on their machines), the Windows Security Center will be bugging you about your system being unprotected. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Most loathsome people of 2008 click here for printer-friendly version 50. Barack Obama Charges: Beyond a few token acts of bipartisan marketing, Barry's major duty in the Senate was to avoid legislating, so he could pretend Washington-outsider status and nullify attacks on his non-existent policy positions. Exhibit A: “Yes we can” is the “Just do it” of politics. Sentence: Presiding over the decline of an exhausted empire. 49. Charges: A font of mediocrity, Shyamalan's success as a screenwriter and director is more confusing than quantum mechanics. Exhibit A: Gave himself the name “Night.” Sentence: Surprise ending to next film: it was actually never made! 48. Charges: According to Seymour Hersh, the U.S. Exhibit A: McCaffrey criticized Rumsfeld’s strategy from the start, calling the troop numbers “grossly anemic”—in private, while he assured MSNBC viewers that combat would be over in no more than three weeks. Sentence: Fragged by Pat Buchanan. 47. Exhibit A: BACHMANN: Actually, that's not what I said at all. 46. 45. 44.

10 Cool Tweeple in the Design Community | My Ink Blog A Brief Intro About a year ago, I kept hearing about this social media site called Twitter. I heard about how awesomely helpful and useful it was, but I must admit my initial reaction was that of skepticism. Afterall, the last thing I needed was another thing to take up more of my time. The Rational Behind This Post The idea to write a post such as this one is far from original. Hopefully my list of people to follow from the design community will be helpful to you. Onward, To The List! @Colorburned Grant Friedman is straightforward and helpful. @styletime Meet Roger Byrne, the guy that inspired this list! @andysowards Andy is very friendly on Twitter and quick with a retweet. @phiredesign Next up is AJ Troxell of Phire Design. mayhemstudios Calvin Lee is the owner of Mayhem Studios.Calvin wins the prize of most active designer on Twitter. @chadengle Chad Engle is the man behind Design Community Twitter Hours (DCTH). @fudgegraphics @behoff Brian Hoff is the creator of Design Cubicle. @Arbenting

WinRoll 2.0 Make a window roll into its title bar, send it to the back or make it stay on top. Minimize, maximize or close all visible windows, including minimizing to the tray area. Make a window translucent on Windows 2000 or above. WinRoll is lovingly hand-crafted in 100% pure assembly language to give the fastest response and the smallest memory footprint. WinRoll is proudly a FREEWARE and OPEN SOURCE application. Download the installer (89k), executable (9k) or source (41k). How to create tags for your windows files with TaggedFrog The adoption of tags on the internet has almost become a prerequisite on any blog, website or social networking site. The ability to simply add a keyword to anything allows for much better organization and easier searching when something needs to be referenced in the future. Most often they are used on blogs but they are also used in various ways on social networking sites such as Delicious, news sites like Newsvine or even online stores like Amazon. Any site that generates regular or changing content will usually have some sort of tag system in place. So why just the web? TaggedFrog is a simple and free file tagging app for Windows XP or Vista that allows for the easy addition of files to be tagged with as many descriptive keywords (tags) as you can possibly think of. You first begin tagging the files by adding and managing the keywords you’d like to create for your files. So now, instead of renaming and changing files as they are created, you can quickly and easily add tags to them.

Best of de Martin Lessard Un blog est un fourre-tout, classé par date, ce qui est le pire des classements pour le lecteur. Voici un classement raisonné de mes meilleurs morceaux...(à consommer à petites doses) Zéro Seconde: liste partielle (et partiale) de mes meilleurs textes (dernière mise à jour: 22 Août 2007) Web 2.0, le déplacement de l'usage d'Internet Les 6 cultures d'Internet. Stephen's Lighthouse: What are the best Learning Tools? Application Locker keeps unwanted programs from launching There are some Windows programs that you can't uninstall, no matter how hard you try. But you can keep yourself from launching them accidentally. There are a number of ways to do this, but one of the easiest is to run Application Locker, a free utility that lets you "lock" users out of certain apps. When you launch Application Locker the first time you'll see a list of commonly blocked programs including some that you might not even have installed on your system. You can also use Application Locker to prevent your kids from opening the web browser, or as a reminder to yourself to keep your IM client closed during working hours. [via gHacks] Tags: application-locker, applocker, freeware

How to rebuild your computer and reinstall Windows without heada If your Windows PC keeps getting slower and slower, it may be time to rebuild your computer and reinstall Windows from scratch. That it, you wipe everything clean, do a fresh installation of Windows and reinstall all software programs. Check these tips and checklist for rebuilding a computer. If you are planning to rebuild a ‘slow’ computer by reinstalling Windows (XP or Vista) from scratch, here’s a pre-installation checklist + some time saving tips. You existing data on the Windows PC will not be affected even if you do a clean install instead of repair or upgrade. Fix Problems by Reinstalling Windows As a tech blogger, part of my job involves reviewing software which is so interesting but frequent installation (followed by un-installation) of software programs also tend to slow down the computer. To deal with this problem, I did a clean installation of Windows last weekend and re-installed all the important software programs from scratch. Pre-Installation Checklist 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. i. 6.

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