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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:12:37 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>How To Change Drive Letters in Windows Vista</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-change-drive-letters-in-windows-vista/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-change-drive-letters-in-windows-vista/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After a new hard drive installation or maybe just to keep things organized the way you like, you may want to change the drive letter of a hard drive partition, CD or DVD drive in Windows Vista. The Computer Management tool makes this a snap. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Note: You cannot modify the drive letter of your main partition on your PC. In a normal Windows Vista installation, this is the &amp;#8220;C Drive&amp;#8221;. All other drive letters, including CD and DVD drive letters, can be modified though. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. Click on Start and then Control Panel. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tip&lt;/strong&gt;: In a hurry? Type computer management in the search box after clicking Start. Choose Computer Management from the list of results and then skip to Step 4. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. Click on the System and Maintenance link. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: If you&amp;#8217;re viewing the Classic View of Control Panel, you won&amp;#8217;t see this link. Simply double-click on the Administrative Tools icon and proceed to Step 4.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:39:04 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Change Forgotten Administrator Password</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/change-forgotten-administrator-password/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/change-forgotten-administrator-password/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have often ran across computers that I needed to gain access to for data recovery, but I didnt have the administrator password to access the hard drive. Since in many situations, there is just one administrator account I can&amp;#8217;t log into another administrator account and change the password so I have to rely on other methods. I could put the hard drive into another computer as a slave and gain access (sometimes) or  I could try installing a second copy of the operating system in parallel and gain access but there must be a better way.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That way is to try to reset the administrator password to something you do know and allow you to access to the user profile and the data. In most cases,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/change-forgotten-administrator-password/#more-464&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:34:51 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>How To Change Your Windows Vista Logon Password</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-change-your-windows-vista-logon-password/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-change-your-windows-vista-logon-password/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most of us know that changing your Windows Vista logon password regularly is a good habit to help keep your PC secure. Changing your password in Windows Vista is pretty easy and is something you should do if you&amp;#8217;re having problems remembering your current password. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Follow the easy steps below to change your Windows Vista logon password: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. Click on Start and then Control Panel. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. Click on the User Accounts and Family Safety link.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-change-your-windows-vista-logon-password/#more-463&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:31:15 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>How To Change the Windows Vista Product Key Code</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-change-the-windows-vista-product-key-code/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-change-the-windows-vista-product-key-code/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Changing the Windows Vista product key may be necessary if you discover your current key is pirated or illegal but you don&amp;#8217;t want to reinstall Windows Vista to activate your new legal key.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. Click on Start and then Control Panel. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tip&lt;/strong&gt;: In a hurry? Type system in the search box after clicking Start. Choose System from the list of results and then skip to Step 4. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. Click on the System and Maintenance link. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: If you&amp;#8217;re viewing the Classic View of Control Panel, you won&amp;#8217;t see this link. Simply double-click on the System icon and proceed to Step 4. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3. Click on the System link.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:07:41 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>How to Disable or Enable Error Reporting in Windows</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-disable-or-enable-error-reporting-in-windows/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-disable-or-enable-error-reporting-in-windows/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are using Windows XP or Windows 2003, you must have seen a pop-up message asking whether to send this error report to Microsoft whenever a program stops working abruptly. Microsoft has included Error Reporting so that they can make Windows better and stable but this can be bugging if you tend to have more programs crashing every day. Microsoft also has provided an option to disable this feature and error reporting is an optional report.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To Disable or Enable Error Reporting in Windows, follow these steps:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-disable-or-enable-error-reporting-in-windows/#more-461&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:51:19 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Debugging JavaScript with Firefox</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/debugging-javascript-with-firefox/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/debugging-javascript-with-firefox/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are some miscellaneous tips for debugging HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in Mozilla Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They include references to Firefox extensions (plug-ins) that you will need or want, as well as tips for configuring Firefox, how to actually invoke the debugging procedures, and a few shortcuts to keep in mind. A number of landmines are also pointed out along the way. (Please avoid stepping on those, because it gets messy.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/debugging-javascript-with-firefox/#more-460&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:33:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Tricks When Opening/Saving Files (Windows)</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/tricks-when-openingsaving-files-windows/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/tricks-when-openingsaving-files-windows/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Did you know that the Open Dialog Box, and the Save Dialog Box that are common to most Windows programs contain much of the functionality of the Windows Explorer? The window pane that shows the list of files available to open (or to overwrite) is essentially a miniature Explorer, and as with Windows Explorer, there are a myriad of viewing and sorting features available. You can even do things like delete files, rename files, copy files to the clipboard, and more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The default display is list view, but it can be changed icon views, the detail view, and even the thumbnail view. In the details view, the columns can be sorted. Most of the functions that are available in the context menu of the Windows Explorer are also available here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/tricks-when-openingsaving-files-windows/#more-459&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:27:55 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Windows Media Player Plugin For Firefox</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/windows-media-player-plugin-for-firefox/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/windows-media-player-plugin-for-firefox/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The popularity of the internet browser Firefox continues to grow by the day, but it still has a few annoying quirks. One of these is that it can be difficult to watch Windows Media Player videos within Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Luckily, thanks to Port 25, who are the team at Microsoft who look after interoperability, there’s a new Windows Media Player Plugin for Firefox. Once installed this plugin will improve support for embedded Windows Media Player videos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/windows-media-player-plugin-for-firefox/#more-458&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:13:26 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Install K-Lite Codec Pack To Solve Video Playback Problems</title>
  <link>http://pctipsbox.livejournal.com/110677.html</link>
  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/install-k-lite-codec-pack-to-solve-video-playback-problems/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/install-k-lite-codec-pack-to-solve-video-playback-problems/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes playing videos on your PC isn’t easy, particularly when they have been downloaded off the internet. This is normally because your PC doesn’t have the necessary codecs installed to play the video file in question. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video formats.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The quickest way to ensure that your PC can play all video files is to install the K-Lite Codec Pack. The K-Lite Code Pack is a collection of almost every codec under the sun, that will allow you to play all your video and audio files.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/install-k-lite-codec-pack-to-solve-video-playback-problems/#more-457&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:10:24 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Essential Security: Firewalls</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/essential-security-firewalls/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/essential-security-firewalls/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every time technology advances to create new business capabilities, opportunities arise for that technology to be used to harm your business. Case in point: intranets and extranets. Networks are invaluable, keeping your employees connected whether they&amp;#8217;re in the office or across the country. But networks are also a prime target for hackers, malware, and other threats. So a fundamental item in your security arsenal needs to be a bulletproof, centralized firewall.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The idea, essentially, is that there are bad guys out there, and you need to put something between them and your network. A firewall controls your network traffic, allowing or blocking activities and access based on security policies you set.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/essential-security-firewalls/#more-456&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:05:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Is MS Admiting Vista Is A Failure?</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/is-ms-admiting-vista-is-a-failure/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/is-ms-admiting-vista-is-a-failure/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;WITH TWO OVERLAPPING events, Microsoft admitted what we have been saying all along, Vista, aka Windows MeII, is a joke that no one wants. It did two unprecedented things this week that frankly stunned us. Dell announced that it would be offering XP again on home PCs. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The second that Vista came out, Microsoft makes it very hard for you to sell anything other than MeII. It can&amp;#8217;t do this on the business side because it would be laughed out the door, but for the walking sheep class, well, you take what you are shovelled. This is classic abusive monopoly behavior, Microsoft wrote the modern book on it.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:02:22 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Dell Brings Back XP On Home Systems</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/dell-brings-back-xp-on-home-systems/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/dell-brings-back-xp-on-home-systems/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amid significant customer demand, the computer maker said on Thursday that it has returned to offering the older Windows version as an option on some of its consumer PCs. Like most computer makers, Dell switched nearly entirely to Vista-based systems following Microsoft&amp;#8217;s mainstream launch of the operating system in January. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, the company said its customers have been asking for XP as part of its IdeaStorm project, which asks customers to help the company come up with product ideas. &amp;#8220;We heard you loud and clear on bringing the Windows XP option back to our Dell consumer PC offerings,&amp;#8221; Dell said on its Ideas in Action page. Users get to vote on various suggestions, and the notion of bringing back XP got 10,000 &amp;#8220;points,&amp;#8221; making it among the most popular requests but well below top picks such as adding Linux or OpenOffice.org to its PCs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/dell-brings-back-xp-on-home-systems/#more-453&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:59:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Mozilla Thunderbird 2 Takes Flight</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/mozilla-thunderbird-2-takes-flight/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/mozilla-thunderbird-2-takes-flight/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mozilla on Thursday launched Thunderbird 2, the latest version of its free, open-source e-mail client featuring message tagging and customization. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thunderbird 2, with its enhanced features, is intended to ease the organization of e-mail via message tags, advanced folder viewing, and speedier inbox and message searching. Under its message tagging feature, users can assign single or multiple custom tags to their e-mail, such as &amp;#8220;from mom&amp;#8221; or &amp;#8220;weekend projects.&amp;#8221; Users would also be able to assign default tags, as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/mozilla-thunderbird-2-takes-flight/#more-452&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Nanoscan - Free Online Malware Scanner</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/nanoscan-free-online-malware-scanner/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/nanoscan-free-online-malware-scanner/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nanoscan is free online Malware scanner from Panda security, that will detect in a minute whether you are infected with viruses, spyware or Trojans.  It will also scan your PC for other threats.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It’s worthwhile running your PC through Nanoscan even if you think you are currently protected, as in many cases people who think they are protected actually aren’t.  In fact 70% of machines that have been scanned by nanoscan have had at least one form of infection.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nanoscan contains the following features:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/nanoscan-free-online-malware-scanner/#more-451&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:30:16 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>How To Update And Remove PC Drivers</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-update-and-remove-pc-drivers/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-update-and-remove-pc-drivers/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Updating your drivers and software sometimes can significantly improve the speed of your PC and software, as well as fixing old bugs or adding new functionality. Unfortunately, many manufacturers don’t build into their applications an auto-update process, so the only way to do this is manually.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I get around this by keeping a bookmarks folder on my PC where I store links to the sites for all my software and hardware. Then every month or so, I spend 30 mins upgrading all my software and drivers. This is a good habit to get into to keep your machine running smoothly and to stop problems happening further on down the line.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-update-and-remove-pc-drivers/#more-450&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:09:47 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Update Your Software And Drivers With RadarSync</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/update-your-software-and-drivers-with-radarsync/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/update-your-software-and-drivers-with-radarsync/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;RadarSync is a free application that will search your PC and in under 2 minutes will tell you about any new drivers and software updates that are available. I haven’t used this service yet, but I have bookmarked it for future reference as it could be quite useful.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Radarsync is extremely tiny at only 300kb which is good. There are two service levels available. The free service provides a report of what updates are available,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/update-your-software-and-drivers-with-radarsync/#more-449&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:04:49 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Make Your Own Font</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/make-your-own-font/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/make-your-own-font/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I love fonts. I have a fantastic collection of them, ranging from delicate script fonts to ones that look as if they&amp;#8217;ve been stenciled. The most wonderful of all, however, are the fonts I made myself. The process is simpler than you might imagine; all you need is a bit of free time, some software (such as High-Logic&amp;#8217;s FontCreator, Home edition, $79 direct; www.high-logic.com), and a scanner.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#8217;ll have to do some fairly tedious writing: all the uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation marks and other symbols you typically use. (Alternatively, depending on what kind of font you want, you could draw the characters in your graphics software.) Then you&amp;#8217;ll scan the page into your PC, tweak the characters, and in less time than it would take to chisel the alphabet into granite, you&amp;#8217;ll have your very own font. — next: Step By Step&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/make-your-own-font/#more-448&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:21:37 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Windows Product Keys Available Online</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/windows-product-keys-available-online/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/windows-product-keys-available-online/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is an entire library of Windows product keys available online, only a Google search away. And we all can agree that that&amp;#8217;s by no means very far. While Microsoft is implementing measures such as the activation process and the Windows Genuine advantage mechanism, Windows users are only too keen to post confidential information on websites and make it free for all. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some of you will go: &amp;#8220;So what? Where&amp;#8217;s the news?&amp;#8221; And you would be right.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/windows-product-keys-available-online/#more-447&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:49:42 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Organise your Tree</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/organise-your-tree/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/organise-your-tree/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Normally I don’t have much use for databases, at least, not of my own making, but I’m beginning to come around after playing around with a little freeware utility called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.treepad.com/treepadfreeware/&quot;&gt;Treepad Lite&lt;/a&gt;. It’s an excellent way of organising chunks of information scatter red around your PC, that for one reason or another, you want to pull together. For example, you could be compiling a family history using folders containing pictures, scanned documents, web page bookmarks, written text and so on. Treepad Lite lets you group the files together, in a familiar Windows Explorer type&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/organise-your-tree/#more-446&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:44:06 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Change taskbar time to military/international format</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/change-taskbar-time-to-militaryinternational-format/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/change-taskbar-time-to-militaryinternational-format/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Would you like to change the time format in the taskbar to military or international time format? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. Click on the Start Button, type in intl.cpl and hit Enter.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Click the Customize this format button.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Click on the Time tab.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Change the time format to H:mm:ss and hit OK.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Hit OK once more to close Regional and Language Options.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/change-taskbar-time-to-militaryinternational-format/#more-444&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:36:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>The Illusions of Vista</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/the-illusions-of-vista/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/the-illusions-of-vista/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was talking to an old friend the other day and he confided that he was once a magician. Wow! And of course, I asked him to share some of the cool secrets of the trade. Although we&amp;#8217;ve known each other for over a decade, he was not forthcoming. In fact quite the opposite. Apparently, there is a secret code among magicians that they can only share with each other. That said, we all know that there really is no magic, just slights of hand that make things seem different than they might appear. Which brings us to Microsoft&amp;#8217;s latest operating system - Vista.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During the development of our latest product, Disk MD, we did considerable analysis of Windows Restore Points. These are files that store important system information that enables us to restore critical system information to an earlier point in time. In Windows XP, we learned that these hidden files are usually between 20-50MB big,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/the-illusions-of-vista/#more-443&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Replacing FireFox For IE?</title>
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  <description>&lt;p style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Originally published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/replacing-firefox-for-ie/&quot;&gt;PC Tips Box&lt;/a&gt;. Please leave any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/replacing-firefox-for-ie/#comments&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was a sad day last Friday when I uninstalled Firefox from our terminal servers. At the same time, I upgraded from Internet Explorer 6 to IE 7, which fortunately has most of the spiffy features that we&amp;#8217;ve all grown to love about Firefox (especially tabbed browsing). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I had previously been happy to give students the choice of browsers and had even set the default to Firefox, since so many students and staff had adopted the IE alternative (often at my urging). However, our business applications teacher brought a significant problem with Firefox to my attention.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pctipsbox.com/replacing-firefox-for-ie/#more-442&quot;&gt;Read the rest of this entry &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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