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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 [...]
Popping Those Notification Balloons in Vista
You know those balloon tips popups that appear down in your Vista tray? The idea behind them is to provide information that is important in an eye-catching way. The only problem is, the information they deliver is rarely of the utmost importance; but at least they are eye catching gouging. If you find them as [...]
Trim Down that Right Click Menu in Windows
Do me a favor, find a file in Explorer and right-click on it. If you are like most users, you’ll have at least a handful of 3rd party programs injected into the context sensitive right-click popup. I install a lot of different programs on my computer, some of which have a habit of polluting this [...]
Removing Broken Entries from Windows Add/Remove List
The Add/Remove Programs dialog - recently rebranded in Vista to Programs and Features - is located in the Control Panel and maintains a list of all the installed programs on your computer. This is a conveinent feature as it provides a quick snapshot into your PC while allowing the removal/uninstall of programs in one easy [...]
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