Utilities

If you've ever encountered a download that is formatted as a UIF file there are two things you need to be aware of;

1. Ensure you trust the source of this file. At times people maliciously insert viruses and other files that may damage and compromise your PC's security.

2. In order for you to use these files you have to go through several steps before you can even view the contents.

The how-to below will list step-by-step what it is that you need to do in order to use these files. If you know of any other way or any other programs that may simplify the process, please let it be known. If you have questions or comments feel free to let me know.

Ever wanted to transfer music from your friends iPod to your computer? Have you ever lost all of the music on your computer and left with an iPod whose music you can't copy? If your answer is 'Yes' to any of these questions then you need to follow the steps detailed in this article. I found a nifty little program by the name of Music Rescue (it used to go by PodUtil) which allows you to connect to your iPod and retrieve all of your music and copy it to your computer. Description from site follows.

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Tamir Khason recently released a neat little application when enabled manages when the Aero effects and the sidebar are activated on your Vista machine. Nick White from Microsoft has admitted to the fact that "...in our testing we've seen that turning on Aero consumes only about 1-4% more of battery life."

The program is designed to disable the Aero interface and sidebar from Vista whenever your laptop is running on battery. The programmer was kind enough to allow the user complete and total control as to when that occurs, the user has options to disable Aero and the sidebar only when the battery reaches a certain threshhold or simply when switched to battery power. The program is very straightforward and easy to use.

I am almost certain that all of you who use a computer has run into a file that you cannot delete [Cannot delete file: Access is denied, There has been a sharing violation,
The source or destination file may be in use,
The file is in use by another program or user, Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.] Simply put you get the dialog box shown below or similar. This normally happens when there is a process that remains in the background and is still accessing the file you wish to delete. Sometimes you have to restart your computer in order to get rid of the file, other times you can't get rid of the file at all. There is a solution to this problem, Unlocker.

"Unlocker is an Windows Explorer extension allowing you with a simple right-click on a file or folder to get rid of error message such as error deleting file or folder, cannot delete folder: it's being used by another person or program."

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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 Z. Now you can download it for free this Sunday (July 30th). Read information below.

Link to website: http://www.win-rar.com/ 

WinRAR Voted Overall Best Utility for SIAF People's Choice Award

"The people have spoken and voted WinRAR as Best Overall Utility. Each year the Shareware Industry Awards Foundation (SIAF) asks computer users from all over to vote for their favorite software.

I was searching for more ways to optimize my computers' startup/shutdown time and ran into this popular utility. Once installed it I ran it and rebooted my system, I must admit I did notice a slight speed increase when I booted. Coupled with the other tweaks I have applied to my laptop I no longer waste valuable time waiting for my computer to shut down. The following is the description for CCleaner. Any comments/suggestions are welcome. If you need any help using the software feel free to let me know via comments or the forum.

This is Part 2 of Speeding Up Shutdown Times. This time around instead of messing with the registry as we did last time, we are simply going to install a utility that Microsoft released in response to slow shutdown times. You just need to install the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service, which, "...helps to ensure user sessions are completely terminated when a user logs off. System processes and applications occasionally maintain connections to registry keys in the user profile after a user logs off." Download the file using the link below and install. Again this is Part II of a couple of tips aimed at speeding up your PC's shutdown time. As always comments/suggestions are welcome.

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Everybody has come across one of the most dreaded situations when using your computer, accidentally deleting files. For many out there, the battle was lost, files can no longer be seen by Windows when deleted from the Recycle Bin, do not loose hope! There are a slew of programs on the web that allow you to retrieve deleted files from your desktop. Below I will list a couple of the programs that I have stumbled upon during my searches on Google. I will also include a small how-to demontrating how to use one of the programs listed below. If you would like to see more tutorials on any of the programs liste below just let me know.

>Restoration Download (great thing about Restoration is that it does not require to be installed, so it would make a great addition to your collection of programs on your memory key)