1) The best way to keep your machine running at top performance is to know what is going on with it, and to control what runs and doesn't run. For this, I strongly suggest that you get both Autoruns and Process Explorer from SysInternals. Get familiar with which processes are running when things are working right by…
I really like Vista and wouldn't think of going back. It runs like a scalded cat for me, I have had zero problems, and think the new features - while not earthshaking, are for the most part an improvement over XP (Well, I did turn off UAC).
I think that anyone who hasn't gained at least enough experience with the internet to send / read emails and use Google to get a quick answer to a question shows a disturbing lack of curiosity and a willingness to be completely ignorant of a new technology that has changed both the economy and the lifestyles of the…
There is no question that you are going to be happier with Vista if you are on a reasonably new computer with decent specs. It's not a good upgrade for that 1.5mhz Pentium 4 with 768meg of ram, stick with XP until you are ready for new hardware.
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The first "season" of You Suck at Photoshop was just hilarious. Not sure, but I think it's beginning to wear thin. The tutorials are actually pretty good though.
There is another nice app that might be an alternative / sddition to FileBoxExtender. FileBox adds a button (really an ugly one in Visa/Aero by the way) to Explorer windows, which is nice. What about when you are in an application (like Photoshop or Firefox) and want the same abiltiy to jump quickly and directly to…
I use Vista, so I get 90% of this without addons, but I have to say I can't recommend TeraCopy enough. It copies much faster, gives you nice detail on exactly what it is doing, and best of all will allow you to pause/resume copy or move actions and can recover from frustrating things like a 5gig copy over your…
I also never warmed up to Launchy. I tried it a couple of times, but never understood dropping the mouse, hitting a two-character hot key, then typing in an application to run it. I use ObjectDock and have icons that open start menu groups organized by type of app, and everything I ever run is no more than two mouse…
The only issue I see with MP3 is that it is proprietary for encoding, and worse yet the ownership is fuzzy depending on the country you are in. Thomson Consumer Electronics, Fraunhofer IIS, Sisvel (and its U.S. subsidiary Audio MPEG), Texas MP3 Technologies, and Alcatel-Lucent all have patents related to encoding MP3…
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