For those who are using Windows Vista, there is an alternative boot screen that you can use intead of the current drab progress bar. The hidden boot screen is called Aurora as seen above, with the text ‘Starting Windows Vista’ at the bottom of the screen. Here’s how to activate it: 1. Click on [...]
PC Tweaks
Posted on August 05th, 2008 in PC Tweaks
Microsoft has released a handy 14-page pdf guide to optimize Vista performance, targeted for single user’s PC. The guide is easily readable with proper layouts and is easily understood by an average joe user for some Vista tweaking. Some of these tweaks includes: power management for mobile computers search management ReadyBoost & ReadyDrive option (to [...]
Posted on August 04th, 2008 in PC Tweaks
In a nutshell, OpenDNS. Not only does the company provides a faster name resolution (hence faster webpage load), but there is a whole slew of security features to boot! Oh, and it’s free. Here are some of the main features: Content filtering (levels of filtering is customizable) Protection from phishing sites Domain blocking Adult site [...]
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