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X-Ray Vision For Your Files
Back in the ole DOS days (remember the 8.3 character limit?), I’d name my documents in a manner such that I can remember what it contained. So my financial documents go by “yearich.txt” and my loveletters go “dontluk.txt”. Vista and XP has made it a tad easier with filenames that broke the 8 character limit. Check [...]
15Jul2008 | Joseph Plazo | 1 comment | Continued
Turn XP into a Blazing Speed Demon
I used to rely on Norton’s Speed Disk, then, eventually Perfect Disc and Diskeeper to optimize my HDD. Defragmenting is the idea- an antiquated process of reorganizing bytes on spinning platter so that each file is grouped into contiguous locations on the disk. Many still believe that defragmenting hard disk drives on a regular basis [...]
3Jul2008 | Joseph Plazo | 18 comments | Continued
Mystery of the Disappearing DVD-ROM
Three weeks ago, I installed a spanking brand new LG DVD-Burner as an adjunct to my existing ASUS drive. The device was a dream! I burnt piles of DVDs daily with nary a hitch. Not a single platter ended up wasted. And even better- entire 1GB zip files get transferred in seconds.
Then [...]
HiYo Instant Messenger Addon
Until recently I tried to give Instant Messengers a wide berth as I found it really distracting getting pinged constantly by dozens of people in some instances I barely knew. But after clearing out a lot of contacts I’ve started using MSN Messenger again. I use MSN Messenger rather than AOL or Yahoo! [...]
27Jun2008 | Everton | 6 comments | Continued
SP1 or KB938194 = a Ferarri PC!
Even before SP1 hit the official launch on March 2008, people were downloading beta editions of the much awaited service pack in a bid to quell their Vista woes such as slow file transfers, intermittent lock-ups and application incapabilities. I was one of those fellas so I moved heaven to snatch a secret [...]
25May2008 | Joseph Plazo | 0 comments | Continued
Use Elevator To Disable Vista UAC On Selected Programs
Over the last year or so I’ve come to accept Vista’s UAC (User Account Control) as a necessary evil which provides important security. However I have certain programs I use all the time where I don’t want to have to click ‘Allow’ on the UAC prompt every-time I run them.
I’ve searched a few times in [...]
Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Beta Starts
Although there has been a very well publicised data corruption bug with Windows Home Server, I haven’t suffered from it and my WHS experience has been fantastic and I recommend anyone who has more than one PC in the home and significant home networking needs to consider WHS.
Microsoft are planning to fix the data corruption [...]
Poll: When Will Windows 7 Launch?
The buzz around Windows 7 is starting to build and on Connected Internet’s sister site Windows 7 News we are running our first poll asking readers when they think Windows 7 will launch. Head on over now and cast your vote in the ‘When Will Windows 7 Launch?‘ poll.
So far the smart money seems seems [...]
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