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Keyboard Shortcuts on Steroids With a Cute Little App

Before we start here two things you may or may not know about keyboard shortcuts:

Did you know that in Windows Vista you can launch all the shortcuts in you quick launch bar by clicking the “Win” button + a number (”WIN” + 1 will launch the first link from the left and so on…)?
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How to Rename Multiple Files At Once

This is a nice trick I bet not every one knows. I don’t know about you but I just hate the DSCN(XXX).jpg file name the digital camera gives pictures. This is especially annoying when you have the pictures from your latest trip to London mixed with your grandpa’s birthday party. After you download all of [...]

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How to Create an Application Shortcut Key

A great feature in Microsoft Windows is creating custom shortcut keys for your favorite programs for instance open Internet Explorer or Firefox by clicking the F10 key. Doing it is so easy, here’s how:

Create a shortcut to the application you want to run with the shortcut by right clicking the executable file and selecting “Create [...]

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2 Ways to Read Office 2007 Documents on Every Computer

I bet this has happened to you before, a new Email has just arrived and it contained a .docx file. Sadly you are at work and still using Office 2003. Here’s how to read Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint 2007 files on every computer.

This is the easy solution Download Word viewer 2007 and open the [...]

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Make your Disk on Key a Super Disk on Key

It doesn’t matter how big, new and fast your Disk on Key is, you always think that it is too small and too slow. Well, there is a solution to both these problems, and it is to change the removable Flash drive file system to NTFS. To make the Disk on Key compatible with most [...]

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5 More Tips To Speed Up Windows Vista

Following my Latest article 7 Tips to Speed Up Windows Vista, here are some more tips I have collected and think will be useful for every one who is using Windows Vista. These tips are a bit more complex to perform.
Hope You find it interesting:
1. Install a Defragmentation Software
Surprisingly enough Windows Vista’s file defragging application [...]

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7 Tips to Speed Up Windows Vista

You can say whatever you want about Windows Vista but one thing is for sure, its not fast, In fact, it’s slow. If you want great performance with Windows Vista you will need a new and powerful computer. I guess you are not running to the store to buy a new computer, so read this [...]

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How to Show Excerpts Instead of Full Posts On Your WordPress Blog Homepage

As you all can see I have switched themes as the old theme was giving me some trouble, and the new one is just so beautiful (isn’t it?)!!!! I came to write this post as a result of trying to make my homepage show only excerpts instead of whole posts. I am sure there’s a [...]

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How to Buy a Graphic Card For Your Computer

Choosing a video card is one of the most compound challenges that the computer industry places before us. most people simply raise hands and take whatever offered to them by the dealer.There are, of course, all those gamers , graphic designers and 3D professionals , that recognize every component by his name and know to [...]

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