Annoyances
Permanently postpone “restart your computer to finish installing .. updates” nag
We’ve all seen the famous Windows nag dialog or pop-up that urges us to restart our computer to apply or otherwise finish installing security updates and patches pushed out by Microsoft via their WindowsUpdate framework. Typically, the updates are published on the second Tuesday of every month and by default, your Windows PC will install [...]
Expanding Windows Explorer right-click menu with “Copy to..” “Move to..”
Let’s be honest, Windows Explorer is a shining example of many components within Windows by Microsoft – it’s merely good enough to not warrant finding a more functional replacement. While there are many file managers available freely for Windows, most users will just stick to Explorer and all of it’s annoying or featureless glory. If [...]
Toggle functionality on the Windows 7 Start Menu power button
In an attempt to stream-line the shutdown process, Microsoft modified the behavior in Vista and Windows 7. Previously, in Windows XP, when a user went to shutdown they’d click the button off the Start Menu, the screen would dim and you’d be presented with a second dialog where you ultimately selected what you wished to [...]
Silencing the “Install Missing Plugins” message in Firefox
Another day, another Adobe Flash exploit – except this time there is no fix available yet from Adobe. Comforting isn’t it? I’ve had enough, the reality is I’m giving up on Flash and have removed the install from my system. In the past few months there appears to have been just as many Flash security [...]
Disabling Windows 7′s integrated search
Desktop searching has been available in Windows since it’s infancy but it’s functionality and feature set has improved immensely, unsurprisingly. One of the biggest leaps in the Windows search space came with the introduction of Vista – the search process would index specified directory locations in the background which greatly improved the response time when [...]
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