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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Troubleshooting Broken Software Installations on 95/98/XP/Vista/2000/2003 and NT

Do you have a situation where you can no longer uninstall a software due to either a problem with the Windows registry or corrupt software installation? Also, you might come across a situation when you want to reinstall or upgrade your existing software to the latest version but since the older version is not behaving [...]

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Manage Multiple Windows Systems Easily with BGInfo

How many times you have found yourself running through multiple commands to find critical system information such as its IP address, Hostname, CPU Information, Service Pack information and User Name? This is very annoying specially when you are in charge of system administration and work on multiple Windows systems to troubleshoot various problems such as [...]

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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.

Any guesses as to [...]

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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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XPde: Make Your Linux Desktop Look Like XP

New users often face problems understanding the Linux desktop environment when they start using it, the problem grows to become a challenge when they have no prior understanding of Linux. Many quit using Linux after few weeks of numerous attempts to get used to the desktop environment, needless to say the desktop of XP is [...]

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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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