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Quickly Uninstall Unwanted Programs through the Right Click Content Menu

Uninstall programs is pretty simple in Windows. Go to the control panel, find add remove programs, or programs and features, then locate the programs you want to remove and uninstall them. Pretty simple right? Well there is a faster and even easier way to do this using a small program called MenuUninstaller and the right [...]

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How to Cleanup and Make the New Windows Context Menu Open Faster

When you right-click on your desktop and go over to the New, you can create new files by using the New content menu. Sometimes the New Context menu can be slow, supper slow depending on how much items are there. Here is an example of what a typical one looks like. As you can tell [...]

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How to Securely Wipe a Hard Drive with SDelete

Every time you delete a file or folder from your PC, by empting your recycle bin, you really don’t permanently delete them. Instead Windows removes the index for that file, hence why we can use recover tools to restore deleted files. If you want to permanently delete a file in Windows then you can use [...]

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Stop User from Logging into Windows Computers When Not Connected to a Domain

When a Windows computer connects to a domain it will cache the domain credentials locally so they can be used to login even though the Windows machine is not connect to the domain. If you are a system admin and don’t want user to login with being connect to the domain first you can change [...]

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How to Enable Ctrl+Alt+Delete for Vista Logon Screen

Older version of Windows, like Windows XP, had you use CTRL+ALT+DELETE combination to login to the system. Supposedly this is more secure yet I haven’t found a reason why….Well anyways if you use Windows Vista you might want this extra security back. Here are two ways to do this. Method 1 Go to the Start [...]

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How to Disable the “Group By” in Window Vista or 7

How to Disable the “Group By” in Window Vista or 7

One of my pet peeves, I guess that’s what I am calling it, or annoyances with Windows Vista or Windows 7 has to be the “Group By” view. This annoying view groups together files based on what you selected. Here is what it looks like: Yeah super annoying, so to fix this, unless you purposely [...]

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How to Lock Windows Desktop Without Hiding It

How to Lock Windows Desktop Without Hiding It

If you are like me you probably walk away from your computer and hit the WIN + L to lock your computer. This works perfect if you don’t want anybody to see what you have on your desktop. On the other hand, what if you do want someone to see your desktop. With ClearLock we [...]

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How to Disable Caps, Num, and Scroll Lock Keys with NumLocker

The Caps lock, Num lock and scroll lock can be annoying at times, if you accidentally turn them on of course. Even when they are annoying there are times you just want them one. With NumLocker we can do either of these task. After you’ve downloaded and installed NumLocker, link below, it will be in [...]

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How to Keep Windows Desktop from Crashing by Sandboxing Explorer Windows.

Windows Explorer process runs a lot of important Windows stuff. When Explorer crashes, it takes everything with it, well just your desktop and the taskbar. To stop this from happening we can enable a cool little trick that will sandbox each explorer instance in its own process. To enable this awesome feature go to an [...]

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Quickly and Easily Name the CD/DVD Drive in Windows XP, Vista and 7

Renaming the CD/DVD drive is not an easy task. It task registry skills to customize CD/DVD name. Which isn’t easy for beginners. This is were Drive Namer comes into action. This portable utility allows you to name your optical drive in a very, very simply way. Here is a quick look at what my CD/DVD [...]

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How to Hide and Show Taskbar Buttons in Windows Vista or Windows 7

In the past we have shown you How to Minimize and Hide your Open Windows with Minime and How to Quickly Hide Windows to the System Tray with RBTray. With these programs the completely remove the open windows from your screen and hides them. What if you only want to remove the taskbar buttons or content from your taskbar? Luckily for us there is a portable app that does just that called HideAndShowTaskbarConte

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