Tired of looking at that lousy orb and progress bar waiting for Vista to load? How about accessing that hidden ‘Aurora’ boot screen that was readily available when Vista was still called Longhorn. It bears that funky lights effect thing as background and a message “Starting Windows Vista.” Want to access this screen?

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In a statement released by Microsoft last Tuesday, they’ve confirmed that a vulnerability in versions of spreadsheet program Microsoft Excel can get you hacked. The vulnerable versions are as follows: Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2002, Microsoft Office Excel 2000, and Microsoft Excel 2004 for [...]

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A while back, we featured this (De)Motivator poster generator that can be found online and free to use. For some reason, I hate seeing Motivator posters (especially the one in my totally non-motivating boss’ office in my first job). But I do find amusement in Demotivators – those spoof posters that give a different twist [...]

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If you’re a big fan of portable storage – USB flash disks, external hard drives, even your iPod – you know the annoyance brought about by having to eject them first from your OS before yanking off the USB plug. It’s a two-stroke process for Windows users (left clicking that icon in the system tray [...]

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So you’re the only one who uses your computer at home and it annoys you to wait for that login prompt where you have to enter the password to your user’s account. But wouldn’t it be nice if you could just readily fire up Windows and start using it right away. You can just press [...]

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I really haven’t gotten around checking new freeware for the past few months so oblige me as I sneak in a post or two. In all honesty, I could just go on and on featuring all sorts of freeware here but I usually go for the top-ranked ones. Call me prejudiced, but if it’s not [...]

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Until now, Microsoft just finds ways to f*ck up its ways of dealing with updates. While SP1 for Vista is just around the corner, Microsoft continues to provide users with updates to “prepare” Vista systems for SP1 – something that I don’t quite understand. Anyway, a couple of days ago, Microsoft released a few updates [...]

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Hibernation has got to be one of the good things that Windows offers for mobile computing. But if you don’t have a real use for it, then why not just turn it off. While there are some good things about it – not losing what you’re doing when you need to shut your computer down [...]

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Since we’re all waiting for the big release of Firefox 3, here are some more neat tricks you can do with Firefox. Here’s one for the keyboard ninjas out there who would want a faster way to launch Firefox with sites in tabs. You can simply do this via the Run command in Windows.

Access the [...]

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I wonder why all my books on Microsoft Office never pointed this out and it took How-to Geek to show us this neat trick in Word 2007 – selecting text vertically. This is pretty useful when editing lists. I’m not really sure if “vertical” is the right term for this feature since it actually allows [...]

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This is one great “hack” if you happen to need to browse the Internet but the dastardly administrators just blocked out the use of Internet Explorer and prevented you from installing software like Mozila Firefox. If using a standalone browser via USB flash drive (Don’t you just want to throttle people when that happens as [...]

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This is nothing new, especially for PC gamers out there. I’ve been revisiting some of my old games while waiting for the holiday crunch (and the bouts of laziness) to finally pass. While a lot of PC games out there are really built for PCs (strategies and simulations) where you get to use the combination [...]

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Year-end list and year-end awards. I stumbled upon CyberNet News’ Tiny Program award. It was the first time I’ve read about Pitaschio but heck, after checking it out, I’d have to say that I’d give it the same props too. Tons of features to help you manage Windows and yet it just takes up 360KB [...]

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The Geek (over at How-to Geek) wrote about how you can make the Task Manager run in the system tray at startup. It’s a great tutorial only it requires too many steps to accomplish. It gives you a great step-by-step tutorial on how you can do it manually in Windows, though. Here’s our version with [...]

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Just like the AutoCorrect feature, one of the most underrated and underused features of Word is the Replace function. If you think that the Replace function is only good for changing text items, then you’re sadly mistaken. If you’ve made a mess of formating or styling your document, Replace can pretty much help you do [...]

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