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History of Windows Icons

Below is a screen shot that shows how icon have gone through an evolution over the last decade. Thanks to Windows XP that brought in high resolution icons and also because of many icon tools that are now available in the market for any one to produce quality icons with minimal efforts.

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ObjectDock: A Better Way to Organize Your Shortcuts, Programs and Running Tasks

ObjectDock is a desktop management program that offers you better control over how you organize your shortcuts, programs and running tasks by putting them in a dock that can even replace your entire start bar. The dock can be further customized to your preferences with various interaction modes that are available right within the program.
ObjectDock [...]

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NetPing: A Ping Utility that Does More than Just Pinging

NetPing is a free utility that is many steps ahead of the standard command line ping utility, found in Windows family of operating systems, in terms of features and functionality that it offers. The tool lets you perform custom actions on the computers that it shows. It also shows you the response time, uptime of [...]

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108 Commands You can Execute from the Run Command Prompt in XP

Mentioned below is a list of 108 commands that you can execute from the ‘Run’ command prompt in XP. All you have to do is click on Start » Click Run and type the below commands to run the respective application/tool.

COMMAND
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Will run the following app/tool

access.cpl
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Accessibility Controls

hdwwiz.cpl
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Add Hardware Wizard

appwiz.cpl
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Add/Remove Programs

certmgr.msc
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Administrative Tools

charmap
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Character Map

chkdsk
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Check Disk Utility

clipbrd
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Clipboard Viewer

cmd
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Command Prompt

dcomcnfg
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Component [...]

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Fix Your Window XP Network Settings with WinSock XP Fix Utility

Did you recently uninstall any program that you thought was a spyware and lost your system’s network settings? Is your registry corrupt and you can no longer connect to any network resources? Are you able to connect to the network but find it timing out and sometimes ridiculously slow for no apparent reason? WinSock XP [...]

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8 Free Tools to Get the Most Out of Your Apple iPod

1. iPod Plug-in for Winamp » The Winamp ipod plugin is a plugin for Winamp that allows you to manage your iPod from within the Winamp media library. It supports all kinds of iPods, from the classic first generation iPods, to the iPod mini, photo, nano and shuffle and everything in between. The current release [...]

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How To: Backup and Restore Network Settings of Windows XP

We may sometimes be required to make changes to the network settings in our systems and there are chances that you may not be able to reset them to match the original setting in case you want to revert. This post will show you the steps to take a backup and restore the network settings [...]

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