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Securely Delete Files using Spybots’ File Shredder

Have you ever wanted to remove those all important documents from your computer? Ever wanted to remove a photocopy of a legal document from your hard disk? Well, Spybots‘ new ‘File Shredder’ application will do this for you!
You may or may not be familiar with Spybot S&D(search and destroy). For those of you who don’t [...]

XP Lifetime Extended

As we have heard before, the support lifetime for Windows XP has been extended by Microsoft - but in the last few days Microsoft has decided to extend the shelf lifetime of the product so that it can continue to be sold until June 2010, on cheap desktops.
Source: BBC News

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Defragment Quicker using Power Defragmenter

Ever been frustrated and put off by the extravagant time Windows takes to defragment? Well, my friend, Power Defragmenter is the answer to your Defragmenting needs! In both Windows Vista and XP, defragging can be a tedious process… but not any more!
Power Defragmenter is by far the fastest and most reliable defragmenter we have come [...]

Disable Vista Security Center Notifications (popups)

A very common question asked here is how to remove the various popup warnings presented by the Vista Security Center after disabling a security feature, such as the User Account Control (UAC).
Here is a typical example of a popup notification from the Vista Security Center:

To remove these popups, and review why they are appearing in [...]

Panic Button Feedback

We really want to know what you think of the Panic Button. Good or bad, please let us know. Please also state what you would like to see in future releases.
We look forward to reading your feedback. Every comment is taken into consideration.
 
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Vista Panic Button - Relieve your Vista Stress

The Home of the IHATEVISTA Panic Button (sidebar gadget)
IHATEVISTA is proud to announce a free product called the “Panic Button” that will instantly relieve you of the stress caused by Vista. This simple tool lives quietly on your Vista Sidebar until you click the PANIC button.
When you start to feel the tension building, don’t let [...]

Clear out the crap with CCleaner

Crap Cleaner is a great freeware utility for cleaning up unwanted files, registry entries, uninstalling programs and removing items at start up that can slow your computer down..
It can be downloaded from this link.
http://www.ccleaner.com/download
 

When installing it, I untick all the options except Add open cleaner and check for updates as I do not want the [...]

Your Views and Opinions of Windows Vista

So, the new Windows Vista is out! We’ve all been waiting for the day that Microsoft release their new ‘killer-of-an’ Operating System. Microsoft is currently using the “wow” factor to market the O/S; however things aren’t always as good as what they might look.
From my personal opinion, I have experienced many (and some still on-going) [...]

Most Wanted Vista Compatible Programs

We understand that there are so many compatibility issues with Vista. Together we can alert the software companies, to get the software we rely on compatible with Vista!
Leave your programs here!

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Ashley
July 5, 2007, 7:21 pm
 
The Sims 2- very dissappointing that this isn’t working on my Vista…. and it’de be great if it let me [...]

Your Most Loved Vista Features

What are your most loved Vista features?
(Don’t forget to check out the most hated section!)
 
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s0evil
July 5, 2007, 7:42 pm
 
i do think the dream scene looks really good but it eats away at your cpu big time, thats the only thing good about vista all the other things are just the same as xp only [...]