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So, what’s new in Total Commander 8.50? The Ghisler.com web site shows a difficult to read list of changes: the new features are mixed with the bug fixes. Here is the easy to read (only new features) list: (PS: I used Cubic Bold Editor to filter unwanted lines) F5,F6,Shift+F6: Remove characters #00-#31 like line breaks […]

You just experienced a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) or other NDE (Near Death Experience)? This is the easy way to find out what is cause the BSOD. Whenever Windows crashes it generates a Dump (*.dmp) file that contains the log of the crash. All you have to do is to analyze the log to

On Toshiba support forum a kid name Bob sustains that two Toshiba tech guys sais to him that is dangerous to keep your computer in stand-by/hibernate mode. So he would like to start his computer faster but without using the stand-by/hibernate mode: > The holy grail for me would be to use sleep mode 100%

So Webshots closed their little wallpaper changer software and replaced it with Smile. The Webshots users are very disillusioned because they were left with thousands of images/wallpapers encoded in WB1 format. But don’t worry! I have found a nice (actually a much much much nicer) replacement. It is called BioniX Wallpaper Changer. BioniX is the

So,  few days ago I had nothing better to do so I uninstalled my old antivirus and ‘upgraded’ to Comodo Antivirus. Boy! That was such a bad idea! This is why: First at all, Comodo pretends their antivirus is freeware but it isn’t. Its bloated adware. Lots of pop-us and reminders that you should be

For years I crawl my web sites from one host to another. Recently my subscription at www.InMotionHosting.com (thanks god!) expired so I moved to what I hoped to be ‘a better web host’. That is www.iPage.com. Only few days after I moved and the madness began. They closed my web sites (yes, all of them)

I just purchased this card and I test the read/write speed as soon as I got it. SanDisk advertise this ‘Extreme’ SDHC disk as 30MB/s, however the tools I used show only about 15MB/s. Tested with:  Disk Tools http://www.soft.tahionic.com The read speed is 15MB/s and the write speed is 14.7MB/s.  Total Commander 7 www.Ghisler.com The

My FijiFilm FinePix F550EXR digital camera arrived today after a few days delay because of Amazon.de The battery is not charged and I had to wait 2-3 hours. After playing with the camera for only few days and taking about 40 pictures the low battery dropped to ‘low’ then suddenly to the dreadful ’empty’ but

This is doable. In your user profile folder find the prefs.js file. In this file change the order of your accounts like this: user_pref(“mail.microsoft.accounts”, “account4,account1,account3,account2”); You can also use a Firefox extension called ‘Folderpane Tools’. Once you successfully installed the extension you will be able to define the new sorting orde. To configure Folderpane Tools:

I had problems in the last month with Firefox which refused to remember the URLs I typed in the address bar. There is a fuzzy Mozilla article that says to fix bookmarks problems. However it applies also to the problem described above. The article says that deleting the ‘places.sqlite’ will solve the problem but you

More horror stories about Toshiba’s crappy drivers. I just find out that turning on the year-candy features in Toshiba (x505) sound driver (especially the Dolby stuff) will eat one on my CPU’s cores! The high CPU utilization cannot be viewed directly from Task Manager since it is generated by a driver. Instead can be seen

Since Windows Vista and Windows 7 Microsoft started to embrace the “big brother” attitude even harder. There are a lot of secret software installed by Microsoft on your computer through their magic “Windows Update”. Here is some evidence: Windows Update updating without permission! http://cubicspot.blogspot.com/2007/08/windows-update-updating-without.html True Spyware In Microsoft Windows 7 http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=670&pgno=1 http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=670 Microsoft Windows 7

It looks it is possible to switch from IDE to AHCI after Windows was installed in IDE mode. All you have to do is to change the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServic esmsahciStart key from 3 to 0.  The details are here: http://ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?69682-Change-from-IDE-to-AHCI-after-Installation Increase in performance due to AHCI is minor (few percents) while the problems created by this

1. Note: If you already have an empty partition to install XP on it, use it and jump to step 2. Shrink the existing partition (use Computer Management-> Disk Management) to make room for the second partition. For Windows XP you need minimum 4GB. In the space that you just freed, create the new partition.