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5 Easy Ways To Keep Windows Running Smoothly

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

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5 Easy Ways To Keep Windows Running Smoothly

Here are some ways to keep your Windows running without hiccups!

How to Streamline Your Right Click Context Menu

Saturday, May 24, 2008

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Just last month we talked about ‘Giving Your Right Mouse Button Super Powers’ where you were able to add a ton of features to your right click. Some of you loved it, but some of you thought the extra options were just too overwhelming! For those of you in the latter group – here’s [...]

How to Stop Windows Nagging You to Restart After a Windows Update

Sunday, April 20, 2008

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When Windows downloads software updates, it initiates a countdown to restart itself after the download is complete. Tell it to restart later and it will constantly pop up again and again (every 10 minutes) until you finally relent and restart your system. To me, this is one of the most potentially harmful of all [...]

How to Unlock Shared Files

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

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If you’ve seen this error message… …or any of these: Cannot delete file: Access is denied There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use. The file is in use by another program or user. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. I’m sure [...]

How to REALLY Hide Folders

Sunday, February 10, 2008

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Hidden files are good for organizing files, and helping to ensure critical files don’t get accidentally deleted. Hiding them as a security measure however, is pretty much useless. A few simple clicks in Windows is all one needs to view everything which you’ve hidden on your system. Free Hide Folder is a free tool which [...]