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Windows registry repair

I found this wonderful free tool to repair registry problems.. It’s just simply called registry repair! Saw some good reviews and it is dead simple to use.. Just scan your registry and you will see a list of potential problems. You can then fix and repair the problem right there. Here is a link for [...]

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Wake up your PC from your xbox using xbmc

I read an old lifehacker article on wake-on-lan the other day and decided I should try it on my home network. After using the free tool Magic Packet Sender mentioned in the article successfully, I thought how cool would it be to start my media server from my xbox. I use my xbox as my [...]

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A better cygwin terminal - rxvt

rxvt is so much more better than the default cygwin terminal. You will thank me once you switch to using rxvt. To get rxvt working without starting an X Server, just create a shortcut using the following -

C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fg green -bg black -fn "Lucida Console-14" -e bash –login -i

This is assuming that cygwin is installed [...]

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Find user details on windows user in a domain

Here is a quick tip – If you want to find out details on a user account on windows inside a particular domain use the following command on a DOS prompt

net user username /domain

where the username is the username of the account you want more information on. You can get a lot of information with [...]

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Hit by AV.EXE virus - Cannot run any programs

I recently got hit by the AV.EXE virus. This was a really bad virus. I got a pop up which looked as if it was a windows dialogue box telling me to install this anti spyware/virus scanner. I knew I should not even touch the popup box and not even try to close it. The [...]

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Disable auto-backup of iPhone/iPod in itunes in windows

If you have a lot of applications in your iphone, you know how long it can take to sync your iphone with itunes. It needs to first backup the iphone and then sync. It is more aggravating when you just want to put sync that one album or podcast for your train ride to work! [...]

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Shutdown unused windows service

Download the tool from http://www.smartpcutilities.com/ to shutdown services not used on your windows pc. This works in both vista and windows 7. You can also create profiles and set different settings for different users. It also has a gaming mode which will optimize your system for gaming! There is an auto mode and manual mode [...]

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Windows Boot Screen

So many times I have wanted to see why my windows is booting so slowly. What drivers are causing problems… Well msconfig has a nice feature to disable the eye candy bootup and just show what drivers are being loaded!!
on Windows XP open msconfig and go to the BOOT.INI tab and check on the /SOS [...]

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rxvt on cygwin

rxvt is so much better than the dumb command prompt style shell you get with default cygwin. Remember to choose rxvt when installing cygwin. Then create a shortcut with the following command

C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fg green -bg black -fn “Lucida Console-14″ -e bash –login -i

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