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  • Windows Tip: Find What’s Running On Your Computer

    December 18, 2008 // davisde // Safety & Security, Software Tips Tags: computer, start, tips, tricks, tweak, windows 2 Responses

    This video shows you how to determine what processes are running on your computer and which one’s are harmful.

    Startup Programs List

    SysInfo

    ProcessLibrary

  • Software Tip: Mac-like Taskbar For Windows

    October 15, 2008 // davisde // Software Tips, Video Tags: mac, tips, tweak, vista, windows, xp 8 Responses

    This video introduces RocketDock, a free application that allows you to add a customizable mac-like taskbar to Windows.

  • Vista Tip #3 – Disable the Vista UAC

    March 21, 2008 // davisde // Software Tips, Video Tags: computers, diy, how, os, tinkernut, tip, to, tweak, vista, windows 1 Response

    This video will show you how to disable Windows Vista’s User Account Control, or UAC. The UAC is that box that constantly pops up saying “Windows Needs Your Permission To Run, Do You want to Continue?”. Be advised that Microsoft does not advise this, because it may allow some programs to run without your permission. If you are OK with this, then feel free to follow these steps to get rid of the annoyance.

  • Vista Tip – Increase Speed By Disabling Visual Styles

    March 20, 2008 // davisde // Software Tips, Video Tags: computers, diy, how, os, tinkernut, tip, to, tweak, vista, windows 3 Responses

    Speed up Windows Vista by disabling the Visual Styles (eye candy) and the sidebar to free up memory.

  • Vista Tip: Remove Warning Balloons

    March 17, 2008 // davisde // Software Tips, Video Tags: computers, diy, how, os, tip, to, tweak, vista, windows 1 Response

    This vista tip will show you how you can disable those annoying pop-up notification balloons that appear at the bottom right of your screen. As a bonus, we will also disable the start menu notifications as well.

  • How To Speed Up XP

    February 10, 2008 // davisde // Software Tips, Video Tags: diy, speed, tutorial, tweak, up, windows, xp 3 Responses

    This video covers seven different ways to speed up Windows XP:  Running “Disk Cleanup”, Removing cached web pages, defragmenting the hard drive, disabling indexing, disabling visual styles, editing Windows startup items, and defragmenting the registry.

  • Free Stuff: WinDirStat

    February 6, 2008 // davisde // Safety & Security, Software Tips Tags: free, freeware, software, tips, tutorial, tweak, windows 1 Response

    This weeks freeware pick is called WinDirStat. It allows you to view everything that is taking up space on your hard drive and how much space it is taking. It presents it in a visual format that is easy to read.

  • XP Tip: Remove the “Unused Icons” warning.

    February 4, 2008 // davisde // Software Tips Tags: microsoft, os, tip, tweak, xp 3 Responses

    This video will show you how you can remove the warning bubble that pops up telling you that you have unused desktop icons.

  • Edit Windows Startup Entries

    April 8, 2007 // davisde // Hacks, Software Tips Tags: computer, diy, Hacks, how, start, tips, to, tutorial, tweak, windows, xp 5 Responses

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    This tutorial will show you how to remove programs that automatically start up with Windows. This will make startup times faster and will improve system performance.
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