06

Nov/09

Valve’s Steam And Windows 7 Integration

Filed Under Games, Windows at 6th November 2009 21:12 by

Valve has done a great work integration Steam with Windows 7. The icon in the taskbar shows the download status of all the currently downloading items. This was demos in my case. I have the Steam icon in my start … Continue reading →

07

Aug/09

Windows 7 Sleep & Wakes Up Unexpectedly / Instantly

Filed Under Windows at 7th August 2009 20:36 by

I had a problem with my system where I put it to sleep and it would wake up for no reason. I found an article where if you turn off the option “Allow this device to wake the computer” for … Continue reading →

26

Jul/09

Windows 7 64 bit Distorted Sound With Creative X-Fi Card

Filed Under Hardware, Windows at 26th July 2009 0:01 by

Since I’ve upgraded to 4GB RAM I was unable to use my sound card because it had static / distorted noise coming from the speakers. No matter how many times I un-installed and re-installed the drivers. I gave up and … Continue reading →

06

Jul/09

My Alternative Free Software On Windows

Filed Under Software at 6th July 2009 0:01 by

Overview Here are my picks for free software on Windows (currently Windows 7). Free and open source (two different licenses applied to software) have come a long way and have come to replace my ageing proprietary and non-free applications. I … Continue reading →

03

Jul/09

Asus P5N32 SLI-Deluxe 4GB RAM

Filed Under Hardware at 3rd July 2009 0:00 by

I upgraded my RAM from 2GB (4x512mb) to 4GB (2x2GB). It worked flawlessly and I turned on “Memory Remap” because I was using Windows 7 64 bit. The only issue I had was the water cooling pipes got in the … Continue reading →

25

Feb/09

Auto Login & Lock For Linux & Windows

Filed Under Linux, Security, Windows at 25th February 2009 0:01 by

Overview I had conceived an idea to automatically login and lock the screen. A Google later and I found that I wasn’t the only one. An advantage of this set up is it allows you to login and start up … Continue reading →

23

Nov/08

Back To Windows Vista

Filed Under Linux, Mac, Windows at 23rd November 2008 11:17 by

I have been away from my main computer for a while and coming back to it and it feels so slow (not to mention the broadband but that’s not my fault)! I can only point the finger on Windows Vista … Continue reading →

12

Oct/08

Disable Automatic Virus Scanning in Firefox 3

Filed Under Web Browser, Windows at 12th October 2008 14:11 by

I recently switched to Firefox 3 on the Windows platform. I thought it was annoying that it took forever to scan large files and was never too sure when it would be complete. To disable this type in the address … Continue reading →