What’s my Windows Uptime Anyways?

Uptime – the time your operating system has been up and running since the last power-cycle or reboot. In the earlier days of computing, uptime was everything. Unix admins would often brag about their multi-year uptime; while those limited to Windows may be lucky to make a day. It’s been the running joke or stereotype [...]

Creating New Folders with a Keyboard Shortcut

Even light readers of How in the TECH know that I am a keyboard fanatic. Anything you can do in a traditional point and click GUI you can often do faster with a key combination. Everyone is aware of CTRL+C to copy and CTRL+V to paste. As I do a fair bit of work within [...]

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts that I Use Daily

I’m a heavy laptop user; it’s my primary work machine and I’ve also got caught up in the latest  craze – the subnotes or netbooks such as the Asus EeePC. This might just be my behavior, but when using a laptop I subconsciously avoid using the touchpad and instead rely on keyboard shortcuts to accomplish [...]

Force Any Application to Run from the Windows Tray

Trayconizer is a light-weight program that provides functionality that allows just about any application to minimize and run from the Windows tray. While there are other utilities that provide this feature, Trayconizer is unique for the following reasons.

There is no installation, instead it is just a single executable.
It’s very minimal on system resource usage, right [...]

Determining When Windows was Installed

Here’s a tip you may find useful – how can you quickly determine when your copy of Windows was installed? I have a friend from college that used to religiously reinstall Windows at least once a semester. This was during the Windows 98 days when the notion of bit-rot was common place. Bit rot was [...]