How to get XP back after you install Vista

Although a clean install is often the best policy, some may prefer to go the upgrade route and install Windows Vista over an existing Windows XP system. This procedure has the virtue of (mostly) preserving old settings. However, all may not be satisfactory after this type of installation and you may want your XP system [...]

Free WMA to MP3 Converter

Several software music players and mp3 players do not support WMA files at all. Wma, Windows Media Audio, is a format that was developed by Microsoft and initially designed to compete with the popular mp3 format. WMA however never received the popularity of the mp3 format and many users don’t like WMA at all because [...]

View, Examine and Delete INDEX.DAT Contents

In the Microsoft Windows operating system, index.dat is a file used by the Internet Explorer web browser. Index.dat files are hidden files on your computer that contain all tracks of your online activity, where have you been on internet, what sites you visited, list of URLs, files and documents you recently accessed. Index.dat files stored [...]

Increase the Number of Simultaneous Downloads in Vista with IE7

Internet Explorer 7 will only allow you to run two downloads at the same time. For folks with fast connections and lots of disk space, this can be annoying. Here’s a Vista registry hack to get around this.
First, go to your Start pebble and click it. In the search box, type:
regedit

Hit [...]

The complete guide to optimizing Windows XP

Windows XP will be the dominant operating system for the next years even though Microsoft released the successor Windows Vista just a few days ago. The major disadvantage of Vista is that it is hardware hungry and poses problems to users of Windows XP who would like to change but can’t because of the hardware [...]

Outlook 2007 Tip: Remove Windows Desktop Search prompts

Outlook 2007 is a pretty great upgrade to Outlook in terms of user interface, but is not without problems. Chris Pirillo describes a few here, and personally I’m still underwhelmed with Outlook’s performance on my machine. Even when I turn off all of my Outlook add-ins (and I run a few of them), my dual-core [...]

Speed up Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP

One of the new features of IE7 is a phishing filter. Unfortunately, checking sites to see if they are possible phishers can slow down your computer. Sites with multiple frames can even use so much CPU time that the system crawls. Microsoft has a patch to help with the problem at this link. Microsoft says
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Extract and decompile .chm file to view as html file under Linux

You can view .chm file using gnochm or kchmviewer under Linux. However sometime you cannot install these programs. There is a third alternative - arCHMage.
From the man page:
arCHMage is an extensible reader and decompiler for files in the CHM format. This is the format used by Microsoft HTML Help, and is [...]

Howto migrate from Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) to Apache on Linux

For people migrating from Windows to Linux, the Apache Web server is entirely different world from Microsoft Internet Information Server. Apache can be alienating to IIS / Windows administrators, because migrating to Apache is more than just copying files.
The IIS to Apache migration process needs to be handled with the same care and perspective as [...]

Windows Hot Keys Revisited

By popular demand, we’re re-sending our Tech Tip on Windows Keyboard Shortcuts, updated with all NEW shortcuts for Internet Explorer v7.0.
Borrowing from Firefox and other browsers, IE7 now features tabbed-browsing. With tabbed-browsing you can, among other things:

Use one Internet Explorer window to view all your web pages.
Open links in a background tab while viewing the [...]

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