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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 [...]
Give Firefox Split Personalities with Multiple Profiles
Though the cost of a new computer has plummeted and a number of us would consider the PC as a commodity, most of us are still left sharing one computer amongst a group. Whether it’s your roommate or family, the communal PC is commonplace. Sharing is acceptable and logical, to the point that every major [...]
Keep Vista’s Integrity with System File Checker
We all do boneheaded things from time to time, its what makes us human. Unfortunately, today I realized I am human. I was doing some file system cleaning on my Vista Media Center in an effort to free up some space on the Windows partition when I accidentally deleted a critical folder for Media Center’s [...]
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