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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 [...]

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, [...]

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.
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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 [...]

Seinfeld. I mean c’mon, what’s up with this Seinfeld thing with Microsoft? Whaddayamean? Okay, it’s impossible to make a post sound like and old Seinfeld skit, but that’s what I was trying to do. Anyway, as most of us already know, Jerry Seinfeld is working with Bill Gates in some new Microsoft commercials to thwart [...]

With the incorporation of servers in homes and small offices becoming more common, it becomes more practical to keep folders in one location for all users. For instance, users can share a single My Documents folder on their Windows server (or a different hard drive) that has greater capacity than the C: drive in their PC. [...]

Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been out for a while now. If you have XP SP2 or–heaven forbid–the original version of XP, then you must obtain a copy of Windows XP SP3. There are a few ways to do this. You can simply install it on your computer through Windows Update, you can order [...]

You’re lazy, but that’s okay. You’re allowed to be when it comes to computing. Computers are supposed to make our lives easier, right? So why type things out or go through a complicated series of mouse clicks to get simple tasks done? As your resident lazy geek, I will point out a few of the [...]

We’re not suggesting you have anything to hide, or that you’re trying to be sneaky. But we have a quick way for you to make specific desktop shortcuts invisible. You can then put the invisible shortcut in a certain area of the desktop and be able to access the files within by clicking what appears [...]

Group Policy Editor
Windows XP users can use a powerful tool called the Local Group Policy Editor to tweak Windows XP Professional computers. This utility provides users with a graphical user interface that allows changes to be made to virtually everything in Windows. For example, you can change how Windows reacts when you press CTRL + [...]