Archive for July, 2009

Baseline performance monitoring for new PCs

If you are a regular PC user, you probably notice your computer performance declining after a few weeks (or months) of regular use. If you gotten yourself a new machine and you like tinkering with Windows and want to get a baseline of its performance, you can do a simple baseline performance monitor to see [...]

Upgraded to WordPress 2.8 and faced fatal errors?

This post is just a quick heads up for those of you that have WordPress blogs and are planning to upgrade to WordPress 2.8 (the latest subversion which is 2.8.1 2 has come out recently). You might encounter a problem which I just did when I upgraded using the Automatic Upgrade option (which IMHO is [...]

Windows 7 taskbar

With the advent of Windows 7 there have been some really big changes introduced.  Some of the first things users will notice are the fact that the look and feel of the new Windows 7 OS has changed. It actually looks more like the Mac OS, familiar to Mac users.
PC users will immediately notice the [...]

Windows shell extensions

A common problem with Windows XP installations is process crashes. Some of the most common process or application crashes that you may experience are Windows Explorer crashes. Do not confuse Windows Explorer with Internet Explorer however. Windows Explorer is the built in Windows feature that allows you to look in your hard drive and system [...]