Category Archives: Windows Tips

Cloudeight WinterHouse Animated Screensaver with Falling Snow Lots of great features! User configurable Scene and Music Controls Choose falling snow or a clear winter night complete with shooting stars Turn door or cabin lights on and watch them gently flicker or turn them off Smoke swirls from chimney if you choose Configure star patterns randomly or based on… Read More »

1. Fill in the blank Did you know Google will fill in some blanks for you? It will. Try this: Thomas Edison invented * 2. Plus is a plus Google ignores common words and characters such as where, the, how, and other digits and letters that slow down your search without improving the results. If a common word… Read More »

Taskkill Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 borrow a feature from Linux. Taskkill allows you to terminate a running process (program) from the command line. Here’s how you use it: Click Start/Run and type Command. The command utility window opens. Type Tasklist at the prompt. You’ll see a list of running processes. Next to each process you’ll see… Read More »

We guarantee you that someone is fishing for you. And you! And you! And Eightball! And TC! Yep! It’s true, someone, somewhere has got a line in the water right now, and at the end of that line is a big hook with a piece of juicy bait on it. They’re just waiting for one of us to… Read More »