Whenever you install Google applications like Chrome in your windows, a file (GoogleUpdate.exe) is also installed together. Basically this file will run in the background and its main function is to look out for updates for the installed applications. While I’m sure most people don’t bother to keep this little program to run in the [...]
When I deleted or overwrote a file by mistake (Windows XP), I simply Ctrl + Z to undo an action and most of the time it works like a charm at restoring files. Windows Vista however has Shadow Clone (also known as Volume Snapshot Service or VSS) feature that will allow users to restore current [...]
Everybody loves Firefox because its wide range of plugins or extensions to choose from. Wondering where to look for Alexa ranking plugin or anything under the sun; you can always find them in its large repository over at Firefox Add-On. There is, however, a small thing that bugs Firefox user when they are about to [...]
I’ve been using Windows Vista for almost a month but I never write any post related to Windows Vista tips yet. There a lot of cool things in Windows Vista and new things that I learn along the way, so you can expect more Windows Vista tips in the near future. Let just start with [...]
My 200 GB external hard drive had reached its bottleneck with the additions of TV series Chuck and it’s time to do housekeeping; removed unnecessary files & old videos etc. There were not so many files I was willing to remove, so I need to scrutinize a little bit harder (which folder takes up significant [...]
Automatic Updates is an integral part of Microsoft Windows that allows important security updates from Microsoft server to be downloaded and installed automatically. When the download and installation process is done, it will ask whether we want to restart now or later. The problem arises when we choose to restart later. A Windows Update popup [...]
Usually big files with the size of more than 100MB need to be separated to smaller chunks, say 100MB each (for Rapidshare) where you need to download all of them before you can unzip the original ZIP file. Unfortunately, there are times where one or more of them get corrupt. When I first came across [...]
Turning off laptop LCD screen can be done via “Power Options” in Windows where the monitor can be set to be off after x amount of minutes. This is extremely useful especially when you about to leave it overnight, say when are downloading something big. There are times though when you feel like to turn [...]
