How To: Get rid of Notification Area Balloon Tips

Tired of looking at those annoying Notification Area Balloon Tips all the time? To disable those notifications, follow the simple registry change and you will not see those ever again.

[Before you make any changes to your registry, take a backup]
1. Click Start->Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
2. Navigate to the following subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
3. [...]

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Windows Tips: Hidden trick in Notepad to automatically log time

One of my colleagues at work told me about this Notepad trick that I never knew could have existed in notepad. I gave it a try and I am loving it! The trick is fairly simple.
Open notepad and type “.LOG” [without quotes] and save it.

From next time onwards, whenever you open the saved [...]

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Windows Resource: Free up space with FREE CCleaner tool

It’s a must to have tool for Windows users. Not only it removes unused files from your system, but also cleans up traces of your online activities such as your Internet history.
CCleaner removes the following from your system:
Temporary files, URL history, cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat, recent file lists (MRUs) from many apps including Media [...]

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Windows Resource: FREE Process Explorer for Windows

Process Explorer is a free utility from Microsoft [Originally from Sysinternals] that shows a list of currently active processes, the user accounts owning those processes, in the system. The Process Explorer can be viewed in two modes. In handle mode, you will see the handles that have been opened by the selected process and in [...]

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