Category: Windows Vista
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Read/write Linux partitions from Windows
When you have a computer with multiple partitions on the same disk or several disks with different partitions, things start getting bad if one of them is a Linux Ext or Ext2 partition: Usually, you can’t access the Linux partition from your Windows computer, Microsoft totally ignore your disk/partition. In order to correct this, you…
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DisplayFusion for your two displays
If you have two displays on your Windows PC, you probably noticed that it’s difficult to get a nice background wallpaper cover both screens. Not two copies of the same wallpaper, but one paper stretching the full span of the screens. For this, I found a good little free utility: DisplayFusion. Highly recommended.
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Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows
A good 2-part tutorial from C|net. Dual-Boot Windows and Linux, Step 1: Get Ubuntu Dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu Linux
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Windows XP nagging reboot message
Windows XP (probably more after upgrade to WinXP SP2) has an unnerving habit of nagging you when it wants to reboot. Not only does it tell you that it wants/needs to reboot your computer, but it will keep opening nagging error message boxes to ask if you want to reboot. My solution is simple: Do…
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Palm goes Vista
Actually, Palm users were waiting for the release of a Vista-compatible version of the Palm desktop software (companion to the Palm PDA). Here it comes now under the cute name of version 6.2. Download from Palm web site.
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Optimize Linux and Windows
You install your PC some time ago, it may be necessary to clean it up a little in order to keep or improve its raw speed. As a matter of fact, even if we are no longer in the old times of Windows 98 that were nearly forcing you to a re-install once or twice…
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Make Windows XP look like Vista
You do not want to sell your first-born child to buy Windows Vista, but you’d like to be able to brag about your having all the bells and whistles of Vista. Just keep Windows XP and install the Vista Transformation Pack 8, your PC will look a little like this:
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Top 10 file software (Windows)
List of the best file-oriented utilities for Windows: Restoration Double-Killer / Easy Duplicate Finder TeraCopy WinMerge Foldershare / SyncToy DriveImage XML (already presented here w few weeks ago) WinDirStat Xplorer² SyncBack TrueCrypt According to LifeHacker.
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Lightzone is back for Unix/Linux
Do you remember my newsbit about LightZone for Linux? Unfortunately, you may also have noticed that some time later, LightCrafts had stopped distributing it. However, after a petition on the forums, things changed again and version 3.3 beta of LightZone for Linux is again available for download. It is still difficult to be sure if…