Category Archives: Windows Tips

Spring Cleaning

Tip for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, we’re less than 3 weeks away from the vernal equinox – or spring. For those of you in Australia, New Zealand and other locations in the Southern Hemisphere, you’ve had your spring and summer – it’s our turn. This will be “Fall… Read More »

It’s creepy

Some of you use Twitter, fewer use FourSquare (a Facebook-like site), and many of you use image-hosting sites like Flickr. In an age where privacy is getting harder and harder to find, you still may be startled to learn, if you use big social-networking sites or image-hosting/sharing sites, your privacy has all but evaporated. Leave it to some… Read More »

Cut minutes off your Windows boot-up time – Really!

This tip is for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 You’ve done everything you can, you’ve cleaned and optimized your registry, you’ve tweaked, fixed, and fussed with all your Windows settings, you’ve cleaned and optimized your PC, you’ve removed every program from your startups, and still your Windows computer takes forever to boot up. Windows is notorious… Read More »

SDExplorer makes working with files on SkyDrive a snap

SDExplorer makes working with files on SkyDrive a snap We, and most of you, have a least one Hotmail account. We don’t use ours much anymore, but we still have them. Some of you know about Microsoft’s SkyDrive – but most of you probably don’t. So for those of you who don’t, SkyDrive is a cloud-based file storage… Read More »