Your mouse pointer like everything else in your computer is configurable. One of my favorite and often forgotten tweaks for you mouse, is modifying the speed at which the cursor moves on your screen. If you’re mouse area is confined it helps to have a fast speed, which keeps you from moving your mouse so [...]

Why am I writing this article? Until about 5 o’clock yesterday when I stumbled upon Firefox Myths I was a true Firefox fan (not a fanboy), I told everyone Firefox is the Safest browser out there, it Faster than Internet Explorer, and it’s Better all around. I went and installed Firefox on all my [...]

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. Archive file formats supported are ZIP, RAR, ACE, CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, BZ2, UUE, JAR, ISO, 7Z and [...]

If you’re like me and find that Windows XP’s balloon tips are somewhat annoying then follow the steps below to disable them. The registry change below tells Windows XP to disable balloon tips on your computer, you will be venturing into your registry so please make sure to backup your registry before making any changes [...]

1. Windows has a Scientific Calculator.

To use the scientific calculator, open the standard calculator, click View from the toolbar and select Scientific Calculator.

2. Hitting F11 on your keyboard will make Internet Explorer go into full screen mode. (Also applies to Firefox)
3. You can change Window’s Search Companion.

When you are in [...]

This article is a forum request and thought that would be good information for everyone else visiting the site. Windows XP has a built in Error Reporting system that notifies Microsoft whenever a piece of software or Windows itself crashes. Some people prefer not to be notified because it is an annoyance or simply [...]

I’ve been using Picassa for a while now and find that every time I use Picassa I run into a feature I didn’t know it had. With Picassa you have the capability of creating picture collages from the pictures you have stored in your computer. There are several types of collages that you can [...]

The registry change discussed below tells the operating system to unload DLL(dynamic link library) files every time a program is closed. Most of the time whenever a program is closed the DLL’s hang around in your memory in case the program is loaded again. This means that if you computer remains powered on, it will [...]

Update: Please read the article below as changes were made regarding the value to use when changing registry settings and the applications affected by the change. Thanks to the users that pointed it out!
The tweak I am going to describe below increases system stability by instructing the operating system to separate processes for each [...]

Whenever you have mutiple shortcuts on your desktop (as I do) Windows sometimes suggests that you need to clean up your desktop because some shortcuts have not been used in over 60 days. I think it’s very annoying when ever I boot up and I’m prompted to remove my ‘old/unused’ shortcuts, so [...]