Boost your PC performances (part II)

Some Vacuum cleaning I recently followed "The PC Doctor" advice to clean up my PC with a vacuum cleaner. My laptop is about 3 years old and has never been cleaned so far, except for the keyboard, the microbes preferred place (wash your hand kids!). I first turn off your PC, unlocked all cables and ensured that the hard disk heads were parked. I just put my laptop on my knees with the vents on top (no need to dismantle it)....

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Boost your PC performances (Part I)

You have been warned! Like any manipulation of your PC,the steps described below present some risks and may in some cases damage your computer and void your warranty, so if you do it, it is at your own risk...you have been warned. The beginning For a long time I have been searching for ways to boost my PC to get the best out of it. Internet contains a lot of tips and tricks to boost your PC performances, some good some less good....

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Make XP look and behave like Vista

Interested in having Windows XP looking and behaving as Vista? I know, I know, there are enough articles on the subject, but just check out this one first, and then complain if you still feel so (I want hear you anyway): First Teaser (the desktop) Check out the Vista skin and the top dock. It's a free product you can get from Stardock at http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/ (http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/). The skin it-self is a commercial product, also from Stardock, called Windowblinds. You can find it here...

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My best portable applications

usb You may have taken a look to my recommended commercial and free applications, let's proceed today with my recommended portable applications.

Turn (almost) any application into a portable application

There are several ways you can turn an application into a portable application:

Just copy the program folder onto a USB stick
Grab the portable version from a site such as PortableApps.com.
Use Package factory

Let MS Word summarize huge texts for you

You may often have to read or review piles of documents where most of the information may not have any other value than to make the document thicker and sound like it has required a lot of hard work and sweating to produce.

Since your time is precious, why don't you ask MS Word to summarize it for you?

Home networking

For long creating a home network was reserved to people that had both time, knowledge and money.

Over the past years, network devices have made their appearance in computer shops, for becoming now a device as affordable as 56K modem used to be.

In this article, I will describe you the way I have build-up my own home network. This article will also sustain a later article that will detail you my concept of Total Connectivity, the right mix between hardware and software for getting some taste of what the future will be.

Get rid of the annoying midnight alarms on your Nokia

As a Nokia user you may have at least once been woken up by a midnight alarm to remember you either a birthday or an early meeting.

First reaction is often to throw away your phone by the window, certainly if it is the second or third time it occurs and you still haven't figured out how to get rid of it.

While Windows Mobile has got an option that lets you define you start and end time for your day, preventing such an annoyance, Nokia seems to ignore the issue for long, leaving the users to figure out what to do by themselves.

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