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When considering the uninstallers which come bundled with most applications I like to use the shopping centre escalator analogy. Have you ever noticed that if it’s necessary to go upstairs to enter a shop, or get to the next level of a shop, there will be an escalator to transport you upstairs whereas you have to use ordinary stairs on your descent? (more…)

• System Maintenance. Cleaning for your registry.
• Speed Tweaks
• What does antivirus software do?
• Software Calcolo Irpef 2006
• Where’s my DLL?

June 16th 2004 Posted to   Windows   Comments(0) 

Just a quick warning to all IT employees out there who are thinking about reading the new CausticTech blog that so many people have been linking to over the past few days… BE CAREFUL…
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• The web totally bores me now
• Sleep Is For Chumps
• A review on Practical UNIX and Internet Security
• Benzonatate (Tessalon)
• You know what sport I’d really like to see?

June 14th 2004 Posted to   Just Test   Comments(0) 

So it’s February in Vancouver and while some days are quite sunny, it still can be quite cold outside. Cold enough to see your breath.
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• Got Cool New iPod Case
• Gross
• Sleep Is For Chumps
• The web totally bores me now
• The Last Samurai

June 06th 2004 Posted to   Just Test   Comments(0) 

Almost every change you make to your system generates an entry in the registry, the heart of the Windows operating system. Over time these entries become invalid, for example, an entry which says ‘My Home Movie.avi’ is stored in the folder c:\downloads is useless if you subsequently move the file to another folder. (more…)

• A software uninstaller that uninstalls software… properly.
• Change Windows XP Home to Windows XP Pro ??“ Won??™t Work
• Speed Tweaks
• ReactOS Operating Systems
• Luthans

June 03rd 2004 Posted to   Windows   Comments(0)