Minty White
January 2011 - Posts
Change the Categories arrangement in Control Panel [How To]
Sat, Jan 29 2011 11:52
To make things easier (for the common user) Microsoft decided to Categorize the Control Panel view. I never could get used to the new categories view, thinking that some of the panel applets were in the wrong category. Instead, I always immediately switch...
Which Windows 7 version do you really need ?
Fri, Jan 28 2011 11:20
Buying a new computer these days, chances are, it will come pre-installed with Windows 7 Home Premium Edition. That makes sense from the vendor’s standpoint, as the license for Home Premium costs less and it still has most of the functionality and...
Free LockedUp Applications without brut force
Thu, Jan 27 2011 11:14
Once in a while, one of your applications will lock up and you would have to kill it (in the good sense of the word). Of course this will cause you to lose any unsaved data. At least you will learn to save your work more often, right? But wait, there...
Free LockedUp Applications without Brute Force [How To]
Thu, Jan 27 2011 11:14
Once in a while, one of your applications will lock up and you would have to kill it (in the good sense of the word). Of course this will cause you to lose any unsaved data. At least you will learn to save your work more often, right? But wait, there...
Use Your Keyboard and Mouse on More than One Computer with Synergy
Thu, Jan 27 2011 8:00
Recently, Thomas reviewed a program called InputDirector, which lets you use a single keyboard and mouse across multiple computers. For some time, I’ve been using Synergy, which does the same thing. In this review, I show you the features of Syngery...
Windows Wont Load? Use a System Repair Disc/USB Drive to Fix Your PC
Mon, Jan 24 2011 8:00
Previously, we showed you where to download Windows 7 and how to burn it to disc, put it on a thumb drive, or boot from it while using your current Windows 7 installation: Download Windows 7 and Burn it to Disc/put it on a Thumb Drive [How To] Having...
Turn Off Suggested Sites in MSIE 8 [How-To]
Thu, Jan 20 2011 11:43
One of the first things to do on a machine running IE 8 is turn off the Suggested Sites feature. This feature looks at the sites you visit and then attempts to guess what other sites you might like and suggest them to you. Awe, the thought is nice, but...
Create a Custom Ringtone for Your iPhone with iTunes [How To]
Thu, Jan 20 2011 8:00
If you want to use a Ringtone for your iPhone, of your favorite song, you have a few choices: Pay an outrageous amount (sometimes up to $3.99 USD per ringtone or $9.99/month subscription to a ringtone service.) Buy an App (there are some out there for...
Show/Hide File Extensions in Windows XP, Vista, 7 [Quick Tip]
Wed, Jan 19 2011 7:52
Today, we bring you a quick tip with which you may or may not be familiar. On it’s own, this tip isn’t useful but this is a supporting guide for tutorials where you’re told to change a file extension without any explanation of how to...
Restore Opened Windows Explorer Windows on Reboot [Quick Tip]
Mon, Jan 17 2011 8:00
Do you frequently have the same folders open when using your PC? i.e. your My Documents, My Music, Homework folders etc? If you do, it may be a little tedious to open these folders when you log off and on or restart your computer. Here’s a quick...
How to Use Microsoft Excel to Analyze Free Text Surveys, Feedback and Complaints
Thu, Jan 13 2011 8:00
Using spreadsheets to analyze numerical or well-categorized data is relatively straightforward. It might not be easy necessarily, but at least you normally know exactly what to do. If you have ever been faced with open-ended text responses, perhaps from...
Excel: Duplicate and Copy Cell content using AutoFill
Wed, Jan 12 2011 11:23
This time I’m going to show you how to quickly copy or duplicate cell content using a drag’n'drop-feature. This feature allows you to drag content from one cell to another, filling in values, series or copying formulas. Click-Drag’n'Drop...
Purge Stalled Print Jobs [Quick Tip]
Tue, Jan 11 2011 11:06
Don’t you just hate it when your printer mess up ? I most certainly do. Every once in a while, a document get stuck in the spooler system. No documents will print. And if you don’t catch it right away you end up with a stack of documents piling...
Delete Empty Directories and Subdirectories [How To]
Mon, Jan 10 2011 8:00
Recently, I asked iTunes to organize my music directory (getting music from different sources other than just the iTunes store left it a little messy and I decided I’d let iTunes do its thing) and it did a great job; however, it left a bunch of...
Speed Up your Computer using Striped Volumes [How-To]
Fri, Jan 7 2011 1:18
If you are looking for a way to speed up your computers read and write speed and you like taking chances, then Striped Volumes are the way to go. A striped volume uses the free space on more than one physical hard disk to create a bigger volume. Unlike...
How To Easily Handle PC Sound Card Problems
Thu, Jan 6 2011 8:00
In this guest post, James Ricketts discusses how to handle PC sound card problems. Find out more about James at the end of this post. You just double-clicked your favorite song, turned the volume up, but guess what – there is no audio! You wait wondering...
Computer Drivers The Basics
Wed, Jan 5 2011 8:00
In this guest post, James Ricketts explores the basics of computer drivers. Find out more about James at the end of this post. Device Drivers – An Introduction Computer operating systems, such as Windows, Linux and Mac, and hardware components, such as...
Create Multi-part Archives to Split Large Files for Emailing, Writing to CD [How To]
Tue, Jan 4 2011 8:00
In the last guide, I showed you how to extract files from multi-part archives. If you want to create on of these archives yourself, follow this guide. This guide will show you how to create multi-part archives with the following tools: 7-Zip WinRAR Why...
Extract Multi-part Archives (.000, .001, .r01, .r02) with 7-Zip [How To]
Mon, Jan 3 2011 8:00
Every now and then I come across something I want to download and find it’s been separated into multiple archives. This is usually done because the file size is large and, to avoid failed downloads, it’s split up into multiple pieces before...
Span Volumes, make Widows think two drives are one
Sat, Jan 1 2011 11:18
Do you have several physical hard-drives on your computer, but would like to have them collaborating as one? This can be useful for smaller SSD-drives or similar. A quick Note before we continue! Spanned volumes are not RAID volumes and they are not fault...
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