Recent Posts By Lori Kaufman
Get Unity in Ubuntu 11.04 Working in a Virtual Machine
May 18th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Linux Tips
When Ubuntu 11.04 was released, we wanted to try it out. However, we wanted to install it in a virtual machine and the new Unity user interface (UI) has 3D requirements that VMware Workstation and VirtualBox was unable to handle. We found a 2D version of the Unity UI that does not depend on 3D [...]
Change or Remove Headers and Footers When Printing in Internet Explorer 8 or 9
May 17th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Featured Posts, Windows XP Tips
By default, when you print a web page in Internet Explorer, a header containing the page title and the page number and total number of pages and a footer containing the URL of the page and the date is added to the printed web page. The header and footer can be easily customized or removed [...]
Get Back the Tools Menu and the View Menu in Firefox 4
May 10th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
The new interface in Firefox 4 does not display the Menu Bar by default. A Firefox button in the upper, left corner of the Firefox window has been added. Clicking the Firefox button displays a menu providing access to the different tools available in Firefox. The Add-ons, Bookmarks and History options are all available as [...]
Defragment Your Hard Drive Using a Free, Portable Tool – Part II
May 8th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
Welcome to the second part of this two-part series about using WinContig to easily defragment your whole hard drive or just certain files. In Part I, we covered adding files/folders to be defragmented, analyzing the selected files/folders, and selecting specific files to be defragmented. In this post, we are going to discuss defragmenting the selected [...]
Defragment Your Hard Drive Using a Free, Portable Tool – Part I
May 7th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
We have previously written about several tools for defragmenting your hard drive in Windows. See the following posts: SmartDefrag – Free disk defragmenter Defragment a single file using FragExt Defragmenting a Single File with Piriform Defraggler We have found another free tool, called WinContig, that allows you to easily defragment your whole hard drive or [...]
Add the Windows 8 Taskbar User Picture Tile to Windows 7
May 6th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Featured Posts, Windows 7
Microsoft is updating the Taskbar in the upcoming Windows 8 operating system to include a small user picture tile in the notification area of the Taskbar. When you click the user picture tile, a popup menu displays which user is currently logged in and provides quick access to your user account settings directly from the [...]
Easily and Quickly Optimize Windows XP Using a Free Tool
May 4th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Windows XP Tips
Are you still using Windows XP? Is it slowing down? We found a quick and easy way to optimize Windows XP using a tool called Quick XP Optimizer. It improves the performance of your system and applications and speeds up the boot up and shut down processes of Windows XP. This free tool speeds up [...]
Save a List of Running Processes to a Text File in Windows
May 3rd, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Windows XP Tips
If you want to view a list of processes running on your computer and you are either unable to open Task Manager or you want to be able to print the list, we have a simple procedure that allows you to generate a list of running processes and write it to a text file. The [...]
Move the Recycle Bin to the System Tray in Windows
May 2nd, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Windows XP Tips
If you are into minimalism and have very few icons on your desktop in Windows, we found a free utility, called SysTray Recycler, that allows you to move the recycle bin to the system tray so you can remove it from your desktop. Using SysTray Recycler, you can easily empty or open the Recycle Bin, [...]
Generate a List of Installed Programs in Windows
April 28th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
If you need to reinstall Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP for any reason, you may want a list of the programs you have installed on your system so you can easily know what programs you need to reinstall once you have installed Windows again. NOTE: This procedure shows you how to generate a [...]
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