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It’s been a while since we’ve done a Daily Download, but I felt compelled to let everyone know about Microsoft’s free program called SteadyState . No longer can children log into your home computer and push that magic button (invisible to adults) that often changes the screen resolution to 640×480 with 16 colors. Or that magic [...]

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When to Quit and Reinstall Windows

by Dave on March 12, 2009

There comes a point in everyone’s computing life when they need to reinstall Windows. Some people do it more than others and some panic and just go out and buy a new PC. Reinstalling isn’t fun for most people. They would rather be walking on the beach, sleeping or even getting gut-shot and left for [...]

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Norton Taking “User” Out of UAC

by Dave on October 13, 2008

Norton UAC Tool
Norton has taken the “User” out of User Account Control by offering their own handy dandy UAC Tool that promises to make the world a better place by helping users cope with all of the extra mouse clicks involved in the Vista User Account Control security feature. Is it necessary? Maybe not. Will it [...]

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Give your Start menu the power it deserves.
The average user may not have any reason to access Disk Management or the Device Manager on a consistent basis. But for the people that like to tinker, adding power shortcuts to the Start Menu makes geeking-out much faster. The shortcuts we’ll be adding today are for Disk Management, [...]

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Easily View Your System Information

by Dave on October 7, 2008

For those of you who do not fear the black, murky depths of the command line, here’s a very useful tip for viewing your system information all in one convenient location. Just click Start, then Run and type cmd and hit OK. This will bring you to the command prompt. Next, type systeminfo.exe and hit enter.
This [...]

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Windows Defender Doesn’t Suck

by Dave on October 3, 2008

People, we’re here today to make an important announcement: Windows Defender doesn’t suck. Really. I feel the need to make that opening statement because it really did suck at one time. But as this spyware utility has matured, we have found that it really does do a pretty good job of removing infections while protecting [...]

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