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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 10:07PM If you change the resolution of your monitor you may notice an annoying thing often happens, your desktop icons will change places on the screen. Try a free third-party app called DesktopOK. This app allows you save and load desktop layouts, so if a resolution change messes up your desktop layout, you can reload it back with a click.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 10:03PM Did you accidentally close out a tab and you want to get it back? Of course, you have done this. Each browser has a quick way to get them back. For IE, Firefox and Chrome, simple hit <Ctrl><Shift>-T. Safari uses <Ctrl>-Z.
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 1:19AM Don't you hate it when you start typing and your hand brushes against the touchpad? The mouse jumps to another part of the page and it fouls up whatever you are typing. To eliminate this, try DeSofto's Touchpadpal 1.3. When installed, it will automatically disable your touchpad when typing. It's free.
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 1:09AM If it has, there is a new online servie called Pwnedlist that will try to tell you. To see if your email address or username is in the service's nearly 5 million name database, simply type in your information and click, Check. Pwnedlist will then deliver the good or bad news to you. If you do show up in the database, don't panic, it does not necessarily mean that someone has been in your account or tried to break in, but still, you probably should change your password.
Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 3:36AM A great irritant that I experience is when certain Big Box stores offer the service to create a system restore disc for you. The price is typically some insane amount. It is insane because most computer manufacturers either give you the tools to create your own recovery disc(s) or have a recovery partition on the hard drive. Nevermind that a recovery partition is utterly useless when the hard drive dies, but that is another issue for another article. I recently discovered from a customer who had a certain retailer create the disc is that that retailer, after making the disc, then erases the software/partition that the system came with to create a recovery disc. It's as if they do not want you to accidentally discover that you could have done it yourself for free. While working on a Toshiba Satellite last week, the customer left her (Insert store name here) Recovery disc in the laptop. It didnt work, so I got the call. Having worked on similar Toshiba models before, I know that Toshiba has software on the system that will create a recovery disc. Well, seems like the retailer erased the software after creating their own disc. Just dispicable. Anyway, if you are running Windows 7, Microsoft has the tools to create a recovery disc built into Windows 7. To learn how to create your own disc, read here.