All Posts Tagged With: "Vista"
Leaving iTunes Behind - Moving To MediaMonkey And Lossless Music
I love it when I read a post that makes me decide to do something totally differently. CyberNetNews are doing a series of daily giveaways of useful software, and yesterday they were giving away three copies of MediaMonkey Gold the reknowned music player.
I don’t know what possessed me to read the story, as I [...]
5Dec2007 | Everton | 17 comments | Continued
Building a Home Server Part I
I’ve decided to build a proper home server as at the moment my files are scattered between different machines (pics of my home setup as requested below) and I want to centralise them, as well as creating a proper remote access solution. I’m not sure yet if Windows Home Server is the right OS yet, [...]
11Nov2007 | Everton | 13 comments | Continued
10 Simple Ways To Speed Up Windows Vista
Windows Vista is a rather heavy operating system with many neat features, but unfortunately they all come at a price. Right out of the box it requires a pretty hefty system to run (arguably).
Before you run out and buy a new computer just so you can run your base operating system, check out these [...]
Bloggers Cribs: Mikael Svardh!!
Welcome to the Sixth Edition of Bloggers Cribs!!!
Each week on Bloggers Cribs features one blogging ’superstar’, who will let us briefly into their homes to share what gadgets and other electronic delights they have dotted around their home, so you can see if they actually use the products they blog about.
So far we’ve had [...]
PCMark Vantage For Vista Coming Soon
I’m not a PC gamer, but I do like to know how fast my computers are. A good test of how fast a PC is has always been the various PCMark tests, but unfortunately these haven’t worked with Windows Vista.
This will be fixed shortly with the launch of PCMark Vantage, a new set of [...]
What’s Eating Your Computer’s Resources? Don’t Blame MS Quite Yet
Everyone is always looking for ways to make their computer faster. Whether it’s linux, OSX or the ubiquitous Windows, no matter how many times you upgrade, how much more RAM you add, whatever, computing, for all its increases in speed in the past years, is still not fast enough.
It’s all crap. There are bigger [...]
StartUp Delayer: Speed Up Windows By Delaying Apps
I’m a speed freak. That’s why I ditched my Stove top for the microwave and dumped the Corona for the SiR i-Vtec.
Now Windows is one of those critters that seem to hate speeding up, no matter how much RAM I ram down its throat or how beefy the processor I slap on its rump. [...]
Windows Trick: How To Recover Your Windows Serial Number For Free
Sometimes the best solution for a complicated PC performance issue is to reinstall your operating system and other applications you run. Although a radical and time-consuming step, format and reinstall normally speeds up your PC and enhances your productivity at the long run.
24Jul2007 | gili | 15 comments | Continued
Windows Trick: How To Add Items To Your Windows Explorer Right Click Menu
The Windows Explorer is one of the cornerstones of every Windows operating system as it allows you to take action (copy, paste, cut etc’) on files and folders. A few month ago, I installed a new PC and found myself transferring a trillion of files to the new PC using the Windows Explorer. The thing [...]
22Jul2007 | gili | 14 comments | Continued
Get Vista For Free - Vista Transformation Pack 7
I had to setup XP on a laptop for a friend at the weekend, and I was shocked to see how complete my conversion to Vista has been. I found it really hard to use XP, and it just seemed to clunky and boring.
If you haven’t upgraded to Vista yet, or you can’t justify [...]
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