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Faster Start menu

Posted by: Helen on: July 16, 2006

The Start Menu can be leisurely when it decides to appear, but you can speed things along by changing the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop/MenuShowDelay from the default 400 to something a little snappier. Like 0.
[http://www.metrocast.net/~dragontears/20things.html]

Creating .cue file to read .bin files

Posted by: Helen on: July 16, 2006

You just create a text file that is named the exact same thing as your bin file except with a cue extension. In this text file you need this information:
FILE “yourbinfilenamehere.bin” BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
[http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips881.html]

Unblock mIRC / IRC from ZoneAlarm

Posted by: Helen on: July 6, 2006

IM Security > Settings > Advanced > Uncheck Block IRC.

Little-Known Tweak to Boost Hard Drive Performance!

Posted by: Helen on: July 3, 2006

The speed at which your hard drive transfers data is very important, right? Especially if you need to copy a 20-gigabyte file, like I did. My laptop was initially copying the file at 2 MB/s because it was transferring in PIO-only mode, which would have taken almost three hours. Not only is PIO terribly slow, [...]

Photoshop CS .PSD Thumbnails in Windows Explorer

Posted by: Helen on: July 3, 2006

[Does not work with CS2!!] 
Adobe Photoshop CS (v8.x) no longer supports displaying PSD files as thumbnails in Windows Explorer’s thumbnail view, all you get is a standard Photoshop icon. The read-me file for Photoshop CS confirms this.
Photoshop CS no longer provides thumbnail icons of .psd files through operating system folder windows. Please use the File [...]


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