You just formatted your Dell laptop and popped in that nice little Recovery CD, only to find your computer full of all kinds of crap you never asked for?
Maybe you will like PC Decrapifier – a handy little app that picks up the trash and takes it out for you too.
PC Decrapifier scans [...]
There’s a lot of different tricks and tools that are supposed to improve website loading times in Firefox, but whether they really make a difference or not is often hard to tell.
There are exceptions however, so follow the directions below to make your pages display faster in Firefox as they are loading:
In the address bar [...]
If you’re so lucky to have an external hard disk drive that connects to your computer through USB / USB 2.0, then you can get increased performance from your hard disk in Windows Vista. This is because Vista treats your external drive differently than a FireWire (IEEE1394) or eSATA-connected drive, rather more like a USB [...]
AnyDVD HD enables you to watch your HD-DVD or Blu-Ray movies region-free and over a digital display connection without HDCP compliant graphics card and HDCP compliant monitor or flatscreen TV.
The creators of AnyDVD recently released a new version of AnyDVD HD which enables support for movies with the latest security measures, such as the Transformers HD-DVD, as well as touting the ability to [...]
Right click on the shortcut for Windows Media Player 11 and click on ’Properties’. In the ‘Target’ field, after the ” ends, type ‘/Task NowPlaying’ (without the single quotes).
Example: If the shortcut looks like ["C:Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /Prefetch:1] change it to ["C:Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /Task NowPlaying].
How to mark a partition as active using the Windows interface:
1. Open Computer Management (Local)
2. In the console tree, click Disk Management.
Where?
Computer Management (Local) > Storage > Disk Management
3. Right-click the primary partition you want to mark as active, and then click Mark Partition as Active.
If you managed to go into Disk Management in Windows XP and somehow click “Mark Partition as Active” accidentally, this could render your computer unbootable. If you are so lucky that you haven’t rebooted yet, here is one possible solution to the problem: mark the partition as inactive using the DISKPART tool:
Open up a command prompt and type DISKPART.
Type LIST DISK
Type SELECT DISK n (where n is the number of [...]