I got a bit pissed off today and I have shut off the automatic update feature in Windows XP. I was writing a few articles in Notepad++ for my renovation blog, my personal blog and an IT related work blog/community that I contribute to for…
Free Hard Disk Space Manager for Windows
As my hard drive size has gotten bigger it has become easier to fill it up with sometimes useless stuff. Even when the stuff is not useless, it can still be hard to manage all the files on my computer’s hard drive and know how…
Free PDF Writer
Through my years in IT support I have tried out a few different free pdf writers. The easiest one that I have used so far has been CutePDF Writer. CutePDF works just cheap nursing shoes like a regular print driver on your computer. All you…
Free Training from MIT
MIT is currently offering a good size chunk of their course material for free on-line. Although the free on-line training material will not grant you a degree, or any sort of certificate, if you are after gaining the knowledge alone, it looks like a fantastic…
Free Registry Cleaner
After my messy experience trying to use Registry Booster to clean up my new / used laptop I had another look around to find a good (and free) utility to clean out the registry and profiles on my system. I stumbled upon CCleaner after reading…
What’s In Your Windows Quick Launch Toolbar?
I have seen some pretty massive Quick Launch Toolbars in my time servicing Windows computers. Some of them take up the entire width of the screen, and then some. In my Windows Quick Launch Toolbar I try to keep it to only six applications. Currently…