Archive for August, 2008
Rearrange Those Taskbar Buttons
As those that know me can attest, I’m pretty particular on how go about everything in my life. Things need to be just so or it really gets to me. I realize I have to learn to let things go, but 30 years in, I’ve yet to improve statistically on it. Such is the burden [...]
Trim Those Control Panel Extensions with Visual Controls
Have you perused your Windows Control Panel lately? If you’re like most users you will probably find a half dozen or so third-party icons littered about the panel. Video card manufacturer NVIDIA is often guilty but software applications like Apple Quicktime or SUN Java aren’t far behind. Worse still, the pollution could be excusable if [...]
Installing Applications Outside of “Program Files” by Default
I enjoy a lean mean Vista machine. Perhaps it’s just a psychological habit, but very early on in my Windows 95 experience I began installing applications and games on a different hard drive, separate from my Windows installation. In that day and age, you’d often reinstall Windows at least once a year, if not every [...]
Adding Defrag to Right-Click in Vista
One of the new features introduced in Vista is the notion of auto defragment of your harddrive. Briefly, defragging a harddrive involves scanning the disk and relocating all the data belonging to a file so that it is contained in one continuous block. This generally causes a performance gain as it is much faster for [...]
Moving on Up a Directory in Vista’s Explorer
By now you’ve probably a handful of annoyances introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista brought about by them simply changing functionality for no apparent reason. Change is not always a good thing, even though I do like to live on the bleeding edge. One such major annoyance is a change made in Vista’s iteration of [...]
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