Many people swear that Vista Aero does not suck up more battery than Vista Basic. Well lets see if we can prove them wrong. Get this neat little utility that extends your lappys batterylife by automatically disabling/enabling Aero depending when you connect or disconnect power.... read on...

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Have you ever had this problem? Welcome to DLL HELL muhahahaha... After installing the various .Net Framework versions from Microsoft or even after installing loads of software that you don't really need. Some of your programs start to act up or even complain about missing dlls. Well what you need is this little free utility.....read on...

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Upon request from a friend, I have added DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle to the free DHCP Fix Tool to tweak away the Vista DHCP problem. What is this DHCP Fix Tool thingy? SEE ORIGINAL POST. Read on...

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Upon request from a friend, I have added arpretrycount to the free DHCP Fix Tool to tweak away the Vista DHCP problem. What is this DHCP Fix Tool thingy? SEE ORIGINAL POST. Read on...

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Sending a large email attachment can sometimes be a real hassel. Why not host the attachment on a website for free? Email your friend the link and just let them download it. No registration required! Nothing to key in! Just select the file and upload... with a large upload limit of 700MB...  readon..

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If you find that Vista takes forever to copy large files over the network. You are not alone... Luckily this annoyance has a tweak that might actually help... read on...

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One of the greatest annoyances with Windows Vista is the fact that it shuts down slowly. Luckily you can speed up shutdowns by tweaking the registry. Download this tool I wrote to quickly tweak the registry... readon..

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Ahh... it looks like christmas is here again, can't beat that nostalgic feeling of friends and family. Turkey, Honey Baked Ham and Christmas log cake. But for those who still say that they still cannot feel the christmas spirit yet, go online and listen to some christmas midis. Load up your computer with christmas lights.Or maybe shutdown that computer pick up the phone consider making an appointment at grandmas....Don't be a scrooge ...readon..

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I have to keep track of so many passwords these days.. at least for a hundred different systems. It would be almost impossible to keep them all in my head. So I store them in a password safe on my notebook. But the problem is I don't bring my notebook everywhere. So luckily this password safe application can run from a thumbdrive and even from a smartphone. And guess what... its FREE!!... readon...

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Wouldn't it be nice if you could make your favorite applications portable and carry them around with you. Run them on any computer without reinstalling them or leaving a trace ofyour activity?  With a thumbdrive or flash drive and this open source application you can... readon..

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So happens there comes a time when you need to track whos been adding what to your documents, and how to revert back to last Mondays copy of a document. What you need is a software to manage the versions and track the changes done by whomever. What you need is a tool called subversion. I've been hunting around for some good document to go through the install step by step but could not find one short of reading an entire book on the subject. So I decided to write a small document on what I did to install my copy of subversion on Debian etch, just using apt... read on...

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Windows Vista being new has many issues. One of the biggest issues is the failure to get ipaddress from DHCP due to Vistas new DHCP implementation. Since editing the registry and determining the adapter through GUID to apply the registry hack to fix the problem can be a pain for some. I wrote a small tool to make it easier for people to fix the problem...download it here..

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Since Microsoft bought the sysinternals company lets hope Microsoft keeps the sysinternals utilities free. This bunch of free utilities are definately part of your survival kit as a Windows user. This little kit of utilities lets you answer the questions like what the hell is svchost.exe running, why are there so many of such processes running. Or what process is opening this file, or even what files does this process open and use.... read on...

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Even with a fantastic UI like Vista, sometimes hammering out a command on the keyboard has a nostalgic effect if you were born in the DOS era. But hey theres a utility that lets you re-live that DOS era only now, you can make your own commands. This little utility floats on your desktop and lets you create hotkey shortcuts and also type out commands using your own "magic words". Its something that I just gotta have did I mention its free.... read on...

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