How to find out what keeps your hard drive busy under Windows Vista

Did it ever happen to you that your computer was unbelievably slow because your hard disk was so busy? I am sure it did. Sometimes you know the culprit keeping the light of your disk drive blinking like wild. But most of the time you probably wonder what the heck could have a higher priority [...]

How to fix your Windows MBR with an Ubuntu liveCD

Something happen to a windows Master Boot Record (MBR) that you’re responsible for? Want a very quick, very easy way to restore it with nothing but your craft, native intelligence and a liveCD?
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Install and Run Software on Windows XP without affecting Registry/Disk using ‘RunAs’

Here is a quick tip to install and run applications on Windows XP without affecting the registry. While this is not strictly comparable to Windows Vista’s inbuilt Sandbox, Registry & File System Virtualization feature, it is a quick method to run programs such as IE on XP in restricted mode, preventing malware or viirus from [...]

uxtheme.dll Patcher for Windows XP and Vista

The file uxtheme.dll is a digitally signed file that validates themes during boot and theme installation. It is restricted and usually means that you can only install a handful of Microsoft certified themes. If you want to add and use custom themes in Windows XP or Windows Vista you have to update the file uxtheme.dll. [...]

Customize your Windows boot screen with BootSkin

There are plenty of programs out there that let you skin Windows to make it look like Linux, OS X, another version of Windows, or something else altogether. But if you’re just tired of looking at your Windows 2000 or XP bootup screen while waiting for your computer to start, all you need is BootSkin. [...]

Customize Windows settings with FreshUI

If you’re looking for an easy to use application for tweaking just about every setting you could ever want to tweak in Windows, you might want to check out Fresh UI. This Windows tweaking tool is both powerful and easy to use. And it has features that work with pretty much every version of Windows [...]

Update Windows with Offline Update

Autopatcher was the perfect solution to update your Windows operating system while it lasted. You could download all patches to your local computer and execute them there. This made it possible to download patches once and update several computers locally without download the patches several times from Microsoft servers.
Autopatcher has been closed down by Microsoft. [...]

Free Copies of Windows Server, SQL Server and Visual Studio 2008

Heroes Happen {Here} is what Microsoft calls the promotional tour for three of its 2008 products which will come to many cities in the United States this year. Users who attend a launch event will get a promotional kit of the three Microsoft products Windows Server® 2008 operating system, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008, and Microsoft [...]

Identify Which Service or Driver Failed During System Startup

I often see this error message “At least one service or driver failed during system startup. Use Event Viewer to examine the event log for details” in Windows NT and 2000 when I was working in a computer learning center where Windows 2000 Server are frequently being installed for students to use.
This usually happens [...]
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Identify Loaded SVCHOST.EXE in Windows Task List

Many times I’ve been asked what is svchost or svchost.exe that’s loaded in Windows?
Svchost as the name implies stands for “Service Host“. Many of components of the Windows operating system are implemented as what are called “services“, a fancy name for programs that run in the background and aren’t necessarily associated with whomever is logged [...]

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