Touch Screen All-In-One Desktop Computers – What’s Available?
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 – | 2 Comments

In the pursuit of refreshing my technology I am looking for a new desktop computer, something space saving – hopefully even touch screen and all-in-one. Perhaps it’s a minimalism phase I might be going through …

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Measure Your Computer Boot Time
Monday, 8 March 2010 – | No Comment

Windows Boot Time Utility – measure your computer boot time.
The current version of the free utility BootTimer, from Planetsoft.org, currently runs on Windows XP platforms and is a handy utility for getting a good understanding …

Quick Tip: Manage Stored User Names and Passwords
Sunday, 24 January 2010 – | No Comment

Windows XP has a utility which manages stored usernames and passwords for a number of programs and services located in domains other than your currently logged in one, such as such as Passport.NET, Drive …

Squeeze A Bit More Performance Out Of Windows XP
Saturday, 23 January 2010 – | No Comment

If you don’t perform much file searching on your Windows XP Computer or, perhaps, you use another search provider for searching local files you might be able to squeeze a little more performance out of …

Get More Productive With Windows Search Companion
Friday, 22 January 2010 – | No Comment

Sometimes, in Windows XP, we work with custom file extensions because it’s handy to work that way. An example of this would be text based Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) files which we store locally and …

Windows 7 Anti-Virus Packages
Monday, 18 January 2010 – | No Comment

After installing Windows 7 on your computer the first thing you should do is install protection software, especially anti-virus and anti-spyware, as base level anti-virus and anti-spyware is not provided as part of the …

Quick Tip To Restore Show Desktop On Notepad
Tuesday, 12 January 2010 – | No Comment

I found this quick tip on the Microsoft support website and it is really quite handy. Under Windows XP and on the quick launch toolbar on the taskbar – if the Show Desktop icon disappears …

Removing WebFldrs from Windows Servers
Tuesday, 8 September 2009 – | No Comment

I have been working through the software inventory, as reported by SpiceWorks, and noticed two entries for WebFldrs and WebFldrs XP, which is as its name suggests is the Web Folders component for operating systems …

Computer installation with XP Professional
Friday, 14 August 2009 – | No Comment

When receiving a new computer we always replace the default install the computer was shipped with- with a new build based on the recovery discs. We do this to ensure we know exactly what is …