Dynamically manage CPU process priorities with Process Lasso [Windows]

Does your computer freezes up while working on an important task? Is there a process that eats up entire CPU cycle time and you can’t do anything about it? The software tool that we are going to discuss may solve your problems for ever.
Process lasso is a software utility that is capable of dynamically managing [...]

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Error Message: The Page Cannot Be Displayed

Remember this famous “The page cannot be displayed” error message that shows up in Internet Explorer and also other browsers when you try to open a website? For those of you who are technical savvy and are very comfortable with computers, this article will serve as a refresher but for those who are not so [...]

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Cannot Delete File: Access is Denied

We often encounter error messages when we try to delete some file of folder on our Windows system, specially the files and folders in temp folder, and some other error message that pop-up when we attempt to delete a file/folder are:

Can not delete File: The source or destination file may be in use.
Make sure the [...]

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The Ultimate Tweak for Your Internet Connections

I often find it difficult to browse Internet sites with my current broadband connection from the local ISP. Sometimes the URLs does not resolve and often it takes lot of time to resolve the addresses. Searching Google for some solution to run a DNS client on my own PC resulted in discovery of [OpenDNS] and [...]

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How To: Change the MAC Address of Your Network Adapter in Windows

This small utility will be of a special help to those of us whose ISPs have locked their Internet connection to the MAC address of the network adapter of their primary computer. This prevents them from using the same Internet connection on their laptops or other systems. Occasionally, when your friend arrive at home with [...]

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Windows Resource: 20 Services that you can Turn Off and Boost System Performance

Here is a list of 20 Windows Services that your Home and Standalone system can live without. Turning them off increases performance and minimizes security risks as well.
Alerter - You don’t need this service unless you want to see your Windows alerting you for un-necessary things.
Automatic Updates - Turn off unless you want to automatically [...]

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Windows Resource: Free Utility to view all connected USB devices

[USBDeview] is a freeware utility that will show you information about all the currently connected USB devices to your system. The utility is small in size [under 45k] and is packed with lot of information.
Some of the important information about the connected devices that it can show are:

Device Name
Device Description
Type of the Device
Connected Status. [If [...]

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