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What are the chances that 2 hard drives go out on the same laptop in the same year? I must not be having good luck with laptop hard drives or something. But anyways, here’s the story. I bought a laptop in May and I used the hard drive that came with it, which was a [...]

I’ve been using Instant Messaging programs since Windows 98 days. I remember my first Instant Messaging program was Windows Messenger. These days, messengers have come a long way. In fact, there’s even services out there that can either enhance current messengers or bring the services into one program.
One such add-on to Windows Live Messenger, or [...]

I’ve been using Vista for a year now and although it’s not perfect, it has improved over the year. Programs that used to not start up at all in the past at least run now. Paint Shop Pro X was one of those programs that did not work on my laptop in the past, but [...]

My previous post talked about cloning your hard drive. This is a nice way to move your data to another hard drive, but what if you moved your data to a bigger drive and wanted to increase the partition. Windows doesn’t allow you to increase the size, so you’re left with using a partition manager.
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Just the other day, I was trying to install Windows XP Service Pack 3 on one of my virtual machines and the reason why it failed was because I had ran out of hard drive space. I thought 5 GB for XP would be enough, especially for XP, but I guess not. Since I can’t [...]

Weatherbug is a program that displays weather information on your desktop. Once install, it puts an icon in the system tray that shows the temperature and to open the full display you click on the icon. The program gives you radar, satellite, the forecast, and tells you about severe weather by alerting you.
The question is [...]

If you’re reading this page now, you’re more than likely wondering what I could possibly be talking about. Well I’m going to tell you. First off, when back in the days of XP and first getting the Operating System on a new computer, I was pretty excited about the how new it looked and all [...]

When I first started blogging, I was unsure of one thing, “What would I write?” I mean I could just keep up with the news and report what I think, but wouldn’t that be a little boring? Maybe, depends on what I say, but then again I don’t really try to stay with the crowd. [...]

I never knew how easily and securing I could control my computer over the internet. It’s amazing how I lived without this program for so long and yet I use it almost weekly. LogMeIn is a program that installs on your computer to allow remote control using another computer with internet access and a browser [...]

I’m a programmer. When I look at my desktop, I see thousands of icons that take up the entire desktop and I have to look for the icon I’m looking for in order to run any certain program I need. I thought that there was no better way to organize my desktop icons until I [...]