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PC Optimizer III

Automatizing optimization tasksThe scheduler built into PerfectSpeed is one of the best of the kind. It practically allows you to program any PC optimization task to be run with a user-defined frequency and at specific times. Configuring it is as easy as pie because you get to enable the schedule for each of the modu...

30 July 2009
10:21 GMT

PC Optimizer II

Trace eliminationIf you want to hide your traces after using the computer or simply delete some data without the possibility to recover its content, this module is up for the task. The Erase Traces section makes available options for clearing all computer browsing history and the most recently used files.For the web ...

30 July 2009
10:21 GMT

PC Optimizer I

Maintaining your PC at high levels of performance is no longer a laborious task that requires brain-busting decisions and documentation. Also, the launch of suites that contain a great part of what you need for the job has eliminated the use of multiple individual software that more than often would clot the registry...

30 July 2009
10:21 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part XI: Internet Options

It’s time once again for another episode of our Windows XP optimization series. In the past few months, you’ve seen tweaks that helped you change the Start Menu, Desktop, Display Properties, Control Panel, Folder Options, and so on. Most optimizations could not be made the old-fashioned way (from the Cont...

27 April 2009
04:07 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part X: Start Menu (Part II)

It’s time to continue from where I left off in my previous article regarding registry tweaks for your Microsoft Windows XP operating system. Therefore, in part ten of your tweaking saga we’ll go through a few more important tweaks for your Start Menu. So if the previous article caught your attention and y...

6 April 2009
02:41 GMT

Download OnyX 2.0.4 – Display Only Running Applications in the Dock

Titanium Software has released an update to OnyX, the general-purpose application utility for Mac OS X. The new version adds fresh features, as well as bug fixes and is a recommended update for all existing users. OnyX is free to download and install on any Mac running at least OS X version 10.2.According to the rele...

12 March 2009
07:34 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part IX: Start Menu

The Microsoft Windows XP system optimization saga continues today with a few tweaks that will enable you, as the title states, to customize your Start Menu. Why would you do that? Well, if you’re a long-time user of a Windows operating system, you’ve surely noticed that some of the items in your Start Men...

3 March 2009
15:01 GMT

TinkerTool - Customize Your Mac Using Hidden Options

Although customizing your computer has lately become an art, the point of this entire struggle is to achieve the perfect workflow, to set the balance straight between the requirements of your projects and personality, and what your system has to offer and is able to support. And if usually this is achieved by using s...

12 February 2009
12:01 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part VIII: Add or Remove Programs

In part eight of the our tweaking series we’ll go through a few Control Panel optimizations for Windows XP power users that may not interest most people using their operating system for basic tasks. When they wish to install and especially uninstall a program, users access the Add or Remove Programs component i...

26 December 2008
12:01 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part VII: Windows Applications

In this episode of our Windows XP tweaking saga, we’ll learn how to customize a few default applications of this operating system. If you’re just joining us, please allow me to ‘fill you in’ on the details: the "Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience" series provides tweaks that do ...

23 December 2008
12:01 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part VI: Control Panel

The moment has come once again to pimp your Windows XP with the skills of a power user and the tool that will always be at your disposal, Notepad. This article, along with the previous ones (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5), will allow you to enhance and customize your operating system with advanced IT knowled...

29 November 2008
16:31 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part V: Desktop Icons

Once again, it's time to enhance your Windows XP operating system exactly the way you want and without paying a cent on expensive programs that do something so simple that even a kid could handle it. This series allows you to make important changes to the look, feel and behavior of your Microsoft Windows XP with...

26 November 2008
16:21 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part IV: Display Properties

Welcome to yet another episode of our Microsoft Windows XP tweaking saga. If you're not familiar with the procedure, please start by reading the first article in the series, so as to fully understand how exactly you should use the lines below and how to run the tweaks. However, don't hesitate to have a look...

12 November 2008
16:01 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part III: Folder Options

Welcome back to the registry optimization saga! If you’re just joining us, please start by reading at least our first episode, which describes a few rules that must be followed in order for the optimization process to take place successfully...So, now that you’ve opened your tweak.reg file and you’v...

25 October 2008
03:01 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part II

Allow me to start this article by recommending you read (if you haven’t already) the first part of this “tweaking series,” as it sets the ground rules that must be followed in order to get the job done right.  The concept behind the "tweaking series" is quite simple, in that it shows you h...

23 October 2008
05:01 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience

You may ask yourselves, why should this article be any different from all those tweaking tutorials around the Internet or, better yet, why should you read this when you can install a program that does it all for you? Here's why: this article will help you make important changes to your system with just two windo...

16 September 2008
04:01 GMT

EVGA Rolls out Precision 1.3.0

EVGA's Precision, the well known graphics card overclocking tool for GeForce 6, 7, 8 and 9 series cards, has just received a fresh update. Quite a rich list of features comes along with the new Precision 1.3.0. The application allows users to easily tweak the core or fan speeds of their graphics card in order to...

18 July 2008
05:46 GMT

The Seven Most Important Leopard Interface Tweaks

Do you remember the day when you first got to play with Apple's new cat? The day when you all went "aaaawww!" after clicking on a stack or using the 3D dock? I certainly do and I have to say that, albeit enjoying most of the changes Apple has introduced in Leopard, like many other people that are using a Mac, I ...

30 June 2008
05:47 GMT

12 Tweaks - Squeeze Every Last Drop of Performance Out of Windows Vista

Windows Vista is a resource hog. Microsoft’s latest operating system will swallow every last bit of hardware resources you throw at it in the race for a top user experience, a concept synonymous with high performance. And yet, there are scenarios in which Vista will eat away CPU cycles, huge amounts of random access ...

15 September 2007
09:04 GMT

Pimp the Vista Desktop with Sick Visuals!

Nothing spells advanced user like a dope desktop. Some people choose to pimp their rides, and then some geeks choose to pimp their desktop... Need I say more? You know I'm right! You know that you want your friends to look on your desktop and go "I have Windows Vista too, but not like this..." Right, let's ...

16 May 2007
10:56 GMT

CachemanXP

You may never think you need to keep an eye on your PC`s performance. That's the way I used to think too a long time ago - I thought that once my PC was bought and brought home I didn't have to care about anything else. It will just work, without any flaws, forever and ever. But you probably know, as I know...

5 May 2007
09:37 GMT

Hidden KDE Options and Features

The K Desktop Environment is a free project which aims to be a powerful system for an easy-to-use desktop environment. The project well suits both regular and advanced users due to its wide range of functions and applications which can be customized through GUIs. There are, however, some of them for which no GUI exis...

26 April 2007
09:18 GMT

Quick Tweak For IE7

"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better"(Émile Coué). This must be the motto of every application that is being created. As the software market is full of all types of programs, the developers should really struggle to improve their softwares day by day. I don't understand what is the meanin...

13 April 2007
07:02 GMT

Tweak It

“Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement.”(Anthony J. D'Angelo) Everything we do in our life should be an improvement of the day before. Or at least this is what everybody expects from you. When you are a child you have to be more obedient, while going to school you must learn more and get ...

12 April 2007
18:12 GMT

Tired of "Pro"s

Almost everything we do on our computers leaves behind a series of tracks that can both be followed and can create difficulties in running our usual applications. For instance, not all uninstalling softwares clean up their “mess” during that process. Lately, even some cleaning softwares have this vice. This lack of n...

26 March 2007
04:12 GMT

Google Maps Hack for Extra Zoom!

Google Maps is one of the most popular services on the Internet and this statement is sustained by numerous reports coming from every corner of the world. As you surely know, Google Maps allows users to view satellite maps and other imagery with the Earth directly from a web based interface bundled with powerful feat...

10 March 2007
12:31 GMT

XP Rumble for Nothing

XP may seem like the big bad wolf for some of the users. There are so many things to learn about it and the options are spread all over the place. Well, there are some utilities on the market that help you make the necessary settings and configure XP all by yourself.XP-Utilities is one of these applications that prov...

1 March 2007
11:50 GMT


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