ZePy - Collecting best of Internet Tips! Where's my disk space going? It's not uncommon to run out of disk space. A free utility can help tell where your disk space is going so you can determine what steps to take. Our disk drive is split into a C and a D drive which both have between 30 and 40GB on each. Disappearing disk space is a common scenario. Fortunately, there’s a free tool that I frequently recommend that can give us some very helpful data. TreeSize Free TreeSize Free is a free tool that will show you what’s taking up all of the space on your machine. Download TreeSize Free from the JAM Software page and install it. On completion of the installation, you’re given the option to run it or run it as Administrator: I recommend you run it as Administrator, so that TreeSize is able to access and return as much information about your hard disk usage as possible. The TreeSize scan As TreeSize scans your hard drive, it updates its display in real time. Once the small blue progress bar disappears, the results are complete. A typical machine Digging deeper
RJL Software - Software - Entertainment - Clippy Download Now - Like this software? Donate $1.00 Description Have you ever been working in Windows and a small annoying Clippy assistant appeared? We have too, that is why we created this prank software called Clippy. Clippy is a simulated office assistant that, when ran, will hide in the background for 1 minute then popup in the lower right hand corner of the screen and say something useless. That is not all! By default Clippy displays these messages to the user: It appears you are connected to the Internet. If you want to customize what Clippy says, please follow instructions for creating a clippy.txt here. Screen shots Click on an image for more detail Command line Options There are several command line options to Clippy. clippy.exe [seconds to delay] [norandom] [seconds to delay] = The number of seconds to delay between each time Clippy is displayed. Example: clippy.exe 20 norandom This would show clippy every 20 seconds and walk through the clippy.txt file from top to bottom. How to close
15 Online Tools that You Will Come to Love as a Tech · EmergingTechs.com I have compiled a list of 15 free online tools that will help you greatly as a tech. I’m sure that there are other good ones that I have left out so please feel free to post the ones that you like as well. IPTools offers a wide variety of online networking tools. With this site you can look up IP address information, check spam databases, run pings, run traceroutes, lookup WHOIS information and much more. BugMeNot allows you to find and share logins for sites that require you to register. This tool is great to use when you don’t want to have to go through the process of creating an account for a site when you just want to login once for something like a driver. SpeedTest.net allows you to test your Internet connection speed. Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that allows you to bookmark sites and view them from any computer. Omnidrive is an online storage service that allows you to upload large files, access them from any computer, and share them with other people.
How to make your computer run faster: 6 tips to increase PC speed Speed up your computer No matter how good you are about keeping your computer clean and up-to-date, they tend to slow down after time. Fortunately, there are a lot of ways to help speed them up― without upgrading your hardware. Depending on the version of Windows running on your device, you can either use the free automated tool from Microsoft to diagnose and resolve some of the issues that slow your computer down or follow the steps detailed below to identify and fix the issues yourself. Automated Solution Microsoft Fix it is a free tool that can automatically diagnose and improve system performance. Power saver settings Multiple anti-virus programs running on the same device Unnecessary programs running at startup Not enough hard drive space Too many unused programs Leftover programs Old, cached, and temporary files Too many programs running in the background Data corruption Hard disk fragmentation Missing Windows updates or outdated drivers Do-it-yourself Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 Notes
Sandboxie - Front Page 23 Lesser known but Incredibly useful Windows Shortcuts Sponsored Links Keyboard Shortcuts are a great way to increase productivity as they save a lot of time and also relieve hands from that pain caused by using mouse repetitively. Here are 23 lesser known Windows Shortcuts categorized into their area of use that are incredibly helpful in increasing productivity as they make common daily tasks a lot easier. Windows Explorer 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9 SHIFT:To prevent a CD/DVD from running automatically press and hold Shift while inserting CD/DVD into your optical drive. 10. 11. 12. 13. Windows Management 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Miscellaneous 21. 22. 23. If you know some more lesser known but useful windows shortcuts, you can discuss in comments below.
Remove Optional and Probably Unnecessary Windows Vista Components In the never-ending quest to rid your computer of unnecessary bloat, Windows Vista has a lot less options than prior versions, but you can still get rid of some of the extra Windows components that you don’t need. Open up Control Panel and go to the Programs and Features section. Find the link for “Turn Windows features on or off” (or you could just search for it) This dialog is quite self-explanatory… uncheck the things you don’t want, and hit the OK button. Guidelines, Not Set In Stone Just to get you started, here’s a few tips on what an average user might want to enable or disable. Hopefully this will help somebody! Lowell Heddings, better known online as the How-To Geek, spends all his free time bringing you fresh geekery on a daily basis.
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