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Ultimate Windows Tweaker

Nov12
2010 Written by Mauldor

If you remember TweakUI for Windows XP and wondered how you can do something similar for Vista or Windows 7 – then look no further – Ultimate Windows Tweaker.

Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a freeware TweakUI Utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows 7 & Windows Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit. It can simply be downloaded and used as a portable application to customize your Windows to meet your requirements. With judicious tweaking, it can make your system faster, more stable, and more secure with just a few mouse clicks. The tweaker detects whether you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista installed and accordingly offers you the relevant tweaks only.
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StarDock Fences – Organize your Icons

Jul26
2009 Written by Mauldor

Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labelled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable & resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computer’s desktop, solving the “constant mess” problem that has plagued the desktop since its inception.
Fences also helps you finally appreciate the wallpaper you have hiding behind all that clutter.
In addition to its organizing features, Fences offers a novel quick-hide feature (in-patenting-process). Double click your desktop, and all your icons will fade out. Double click again, and they’ll return.

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End of the Line for the iMac

Jun09
2009 Written by Mauldor

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I was a long time supporter of all things PC and by this I mean Windows, Linux, Build it yourself desktop machine and so forth – Apple were (and still are) expensive for what you actually get considering now they use the same hardware as a desktop PC. What you may also have noticed was  wrote about and Owned a top of the range iMac – so how come this post? Let me explain all.

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Vista Service Pack 2 is Released to manufacturers

May15
2009 Written by Mauldor

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This is probably old news now but Microsoft have finalised the changes of Service pack 2 for Vista (SP2) and provided OEM copies so that all new machines can includes SP2 by default. This means it is not long now before it is included in the Windows Update and requires SP1 to be installed before it will allow any installations.

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Will Windows 7 be as fast when it goes Gold

Feb03
2009 Written by Mauldor

I have seen many reviews of the Beta of Windows 7 and even tested it myself – I agree it is faster “out of the box” then Vista and uses less memory, less services are running and by all accounts seems to b the answer to Microsoft Prayers. The thought on my mind and I know this from every single beta MS has ever put out there – will the end product be as good?

I see this as a make or break time for MS in terms of Operating systems – they still make lots of money anyhow on Servers and people buying machines with Windows pre-installed but were they make there real money is not from consumers but from the 1000′s of licences companies buy for each desktop OS. Even when they do bring out Windows 7 – many companies will want to wait for Service pack one.

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Vista Rating System

Jan31
2009 Written by Mauldor

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Vista has a Rating system built right into the OS and the major problem here is it’s max number is 5.9 – as technology moves on, how do they scale this number and what does the end number actually mean?

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Vista has Left the Building

Feb15
2008 Written by Mauldor

I have toyed with Vista on and off for some time now and the Sidebar is a very nice feature but everything else is just a glossy version of XP for example. I had one machine left on Vista (Excluding the Virtual machines) and after using the iMac for so long, it struck me why this was fated to be deleted and replaced by Windows XP Pro SP2. Lets go through some Spec’s and compare and contrast:

Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz (E6600)
3 GIG DDR-2 Ram
Various HD’s in there.
GeForce 7600GT

In reality this machine should be powered up and ready to use quicker then the following Dell machine:

Pentium 4 3.2Ghz (640 Series)
2 GIG DDR 2 Ram
80 GIG SATA Drive.

But the reality is the Dell is up and ready to use not long after I press the power button, such is the difference between XP and Vista. I am busy rebuilding it now as I type this (On the mac).

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