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[1 Mar 2010 | 4 Comments | ]
Restore the Quick Launch Toolbar In Windows 7

If you’re using Windows 7 then you probably have seen the new taskbar. Windows 7 now combines taskbar buttons in a way that saves space, but also makes it more difficult to tell whether an icon represents a running application or a shortcut. Call me oldschool but I don’t like this part of it… So after a research on the internet I’ve found the solution to my “problem”!
If you’re unhappy with the new taskbar and you want to have the good old Quick Launch Toolbar back, then you need to …

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[20 Feb 2010 | 9 Comments | ]
LockHunter: What Is Locking My File?

LockHunter is a great alternative for “Unlocker”. LockHunter is a free tool which deletes files which are blocked by something you don’t know. This could be a system process or perhaps by another program.
Usually when you want to delete such file you get a pop up which says: “Cannot delete file: Access is denied” or something similar. In this cases you are left with 2 options:
1: Restart your computer and try to delete the file
2: Using LockHunter!
When using LockHunter you’re able to see the processes which has locked the …

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[30 Oct 2009 | 10 Comments | ]
My First Impression Of Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Yeah! I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my PC. As you might know I used to have Vista running on my PC (for more then 1 year without any troubles) but with the Windows 7 being released I just had to give it a try! I already had heard a lot of good things about Windows 7 so you can imagine that I was very curious.
After backing up the important files and folders I formatted my HD and started to install Windows 7 x64 bits. I don’t know why …

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[27 Oct 2009 | 4 Comments | ]
How To Change File Associations In Vista!

As  you might know each file in Windows has an extension in its filename, for example .doc is for Microsoft Word. So in this case when you double click on a file which has the .doc extension Windows tries to identify the program in order to open the file. Now in most cases you don’t need to change and/or set these file type associations however in some cases that can be very handy!
While I had Windows XP installed on my pc, I was able to change/set the file type associations …

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[20 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

Here’s a quick Gmail tip if you would like to filter only the unread messages in your inbox. Just type in “label:unread” in the search bar and hit Enter! Wola, isn’t this easy!?

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[17 May 2009 | 16 Comments | ]

The Windows Registry is a database which contains information about almost everything you do on your computer; From a visit to a website to information and settings of  the hardware in your computer. The registry also contains information about drivers, other programs, user settings, etc.
So you can see that the often you use your computer, the more fuller the registry gets. I mean think about all the junk and temporary files stored on your computer, all those broken registry, which Windows forget to delete, etc. So that’s why your computer …

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[27 Apr 2009 | 7 Comments | ]

There are times when you want to edit, rename or delete system files and folders in Vista. For example; If you want to use a third party theme for your Windows Vista. In order to use a theme you need to edit and overwrite some system files and if  you have ever tried this, then you must have noticed that windows doesn’t let you do this, even if you’re logged in as an administrator.
In order for you to edit and overwrite the system files (or rename and delete any other …

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[24 Mar 2009 | 14 Comments | ]

Let’s start with a little basic stuff, shall we? FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and is a very common method to transfer (large) files from “computer A” to “Computer B” or vice versa. Transferring files from a client computer to a server computer is called uploading and transferring from a server to a client is downloading.
In order to transfer files using FTP, you need:

The FTP Server address;  This could look like “ftp.domainname.com” or it could look like “11.231.231.234″.
Username and password. Some FTP servers let you connect to …