We all know that Vista and Windows 7 doesn’t let you specify custom extensions or customize them to your liking. What program do you use to edit file associations in Vista and Windows 7? EDIT: Just to be more clear, I’m looking for a program which lets you: Create new extensions (I am aware of…

I have a laptop with a USB to VGA adapter which allows me to add a third monitor to my laptop (the second monitor uses the onboard slot). It worked fine on Windows Vista – you could go into Windows’ display settings and Windows would recognize the third monitor and let you drag it around…

Can anyone recommend a cheap/free utility that can do this without very much effort? My preference is that it would be really easy. Boot into Windows Pick drive to move Pick target drive It copies everything over, and reboots to the correct partition. Solution: DriveImage XML DriveImage XML will do the job.  It runs from…

I’m trying to improve the boot time and general performance of a Windows XP machine and figure the massive collection of services that Windows automatically starts have to have an impact. Are there any services that I can safely disable? If so what are they? Obviously the services are there for a reason, so when…

I’ve posted a question here that I have a 32bits windows 7 on a dual boot machine with ubuntu 10.04 upgraded to 11.04. From the responses I had from the questions, I decided to reinstall the windows 7 but this time a 64bits version. I’ve install the grub on the first section of the HDD…

Just got myself a new computer and thinking of how set it up. I have win7 HP and will probably install at least some version of Ubuntu on it shortly to have dual boot. Might come other Linux distros too in the future. I have a 1TB HDD and my question is what’s the smartest…

I have some SD cards that I use. Is there a limit to how many times I can write over them? If I leave information on a card, is there anything that can cause it to lose this information eventually (other than a magnetic field)? What’s the preferred storage conditions for these cards? Solution: Flash…

In windows explorer, as soon as you rename a file, the list reorders and your focus stays on the file you edited, which is now in a new place in the list. file1.jpg   –>editing to z.jpg…file2.jpgfile3.jpgm.jpgx.jpg jumps to file2.jpgfile3.jpgm.jpgx.jpgz.jpg —> selected here, which is useless. If you rename file1 to z.jpg, the list will automatically…

I often lock Windows and turn my screen off when I’m away for 10 – 20 minutes. Sometimes when I turn the screen on again and I enter my password the screen goes black. Then the system is unresponsive and I can’t do anything about the state except pulling the plug. How can I troubleshoot…