Do you know about tinyurl? I get email all the time with links to web sites and stories with extremely long web addresses. Tinyurl takes these god-awful long addresses and turns them into a very short, simple link that doesn’t require a person wasting time copying the long one into notepad (which you have to [...]

If you’re still using Windows XP, it’s important to upgrade to Service Pack 3 before July 13, 2010, because support for SP2 ends then and you will no longer get security updates unless you upgrade so be sure to have SP3 installed!

This is a Windows XP tip. I have shown you how to use msconfig to control what starts when your computer does now I am going to show you how to control a programs start permanently using a registry edit.

Be very careful when editing the registry!

There are two places in the registry [...]

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Microsoft has launched a ‘Fixit’ site at http://fixitcenter.support.microsoft.com/Portal/ that MS describes like this:

“Fix it Center finds and fixes many common PC and device problems automatically. It also helps prevent new problems by proactively checking for known issues and installing updates. Fix it Center helps to consolidate the many steps of diagnosing and [...]

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You can quickly and easily move the taskbar from the bottom of the screen to either side simply by ‘left clicking’ on any free portion of the taskbar and dragging it to one side or the other. Doing this can free up some screen space when watching videos or editing photos. Give it a try!