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This is an oldie, and still sought after- so I decided to post it. I do try to satisfy every possible geek-need, and apparently there is still a community for Windows 98.
This boot disk image allows you to re-install Windows 98 (still need a Win 98 setup CD), or boot into a Win98 installation that has become corrupted.
Just save the EXE to your Desktop, drive C, or anywhere you’d like > insert a floppy disk into drive A, and run it. This will write the image to the floppy, allowing you to use it as a boot disk by restarting your machine with the floppy inserted.
Download for: Windows 98, or Windows 98 SE
June 16th, 2009
If you’ve been using your computer for a long period of time without re-formatting it, you have probably built up duplicate files due to copying and moving all over the place.
In my case, it is a large number of media files such as videos, music, and images. I may lose track, and copy the sames file more than once to any given directory. Windows does not provide you with a duplicate file checking solution, but there is freeware that does the trick.
Duplicate Files Searcher checks and removes duplicate files. It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. You can preview files before deleting, or set DFS to automatically delete duplicate files.
Features:
- Searching results can be saved and loaded in future
- Checks any files, folders and drives
- Works with removable drives
- Decide on automatic deletion or preview
- Works on all OSes
Download here – requires Java Runtime Environment, so please install JRE first if you haven’t already
June 16th, 2009
Anomos is a free torrent client that lets you share files anonymously. It is currently in beta, but works like a charm. It’s a very plain BitTorrent client –which doesn’t even show the number of seeds & peers. Only the tracker will know who’s downloading what.
Now that’s what I call an anonymous torrent client, and Anomos does it well.
Anomos is currently available for Windows and Linux – Download it here.
June 16th, 2009
Every Windows user goes through this some time; a damaged operating system caused by a virus, bad update, data loss, or just an overall laggy system. Sometimes the best thing to do is to re-format Windows, and install from scratch.
This can get very tedious- backing up gigs of data, reinstalling Windows, downloading and installing all the hardware drivers, restoring backed up data, AND going through all the websites to download your must have software (I made a list of all the software I reinstall every time here).
Luckily, there is a handy little utility called “Smart Installer Pack“. SIP covers a set of 24 of the most commonly used applications such as Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player, OpenOffice, CCleaner, Mozilla Firefox, and more- all ready to install with a click of the mouse.
Just download SIP, click on the icons of the apps you want to install (from within SIP), and you’re all set- go take a quick shower or something while it automatically installs the chosen apps.
Features of Smart Installer Pack
• Easy, intuitive, user-interface design
• Contains usual start-up software
• Greatly improves the time needed to install that software, eliminating some of the unnecessary searching, downloading, etc
• The installer comes packed in a convenient executable file
• You can choose which software you want to install using suggestive icons
• The application is made as small as possible
The Software included in SIP:
Download Smart Installer Pack v1.0 (this is a .Torrent file. Please check here for instructions on downloading torrent files)
June 16th, 2009
If you’ve decided to stay clear of Vista and stick with XP, you might like this. You can install the handy sidebar offered in Vista, right on your Windows XP desktop. This is the actual Vista Sidebar ported to XP by Joshoon over at Deviant Art. Users can grab additional sidebar gadgets directly from Microsoft, and experience the same functionality as they would with the sidebar on a Vista system. The Windows Vista Sidebar pack is free, Windows XP only.
For more sidebar applications and nice Vista features, check out how to get the best features of Vista in XP.
Download: Windows Vista Sidebar for Windows XP
June 15th, 2009
Hello coders- I found this awesome wallpaper that references all the commonly used attributes of the CSS language. It’s in perfect high res wallpapers size. Enjoy.
(click to enlarge)
June 15th, 2009
Not too long ago, I posted a guide on reducing your Windows startup time by disabling unwanted startup apps (Here).
When Windows loads it’s Startup file, it attempts to load every program in there at the same time. Therefore if you have quite a lot of programs starting when Windows starts, each program will try and grab CPU time so that it can load.
Now, you can make Windows startup even more faster by delaying the apps you left in the startup list with Startup Delayer. Startup Delayer allows you to setup how many seconds after Windows has started, to load each program.
For example, you have a mail app in your startup list, you can now set mail to start 20 seconds after Windows starts, and another app to start say, 45 seconds later. This will significantly improve your startup performance.
Download Startup Delayer.
PC World Startup Delayer v2.3.133 review:
June 14th, 2009
I recently stumbled onto a great site, http://www.processlibrary.com/. It does an excellant job of allowing users to search for unknown processes, and getting a description of the nature of the process.
What are processes?
A process in Windows is an application running in the background (stored in the RAM). You can see your running processes by holding CTRL+ALT+DELETE, then clicking the Processes tab from the Task Manager.
a list of processes running in the background (above)
There are many known process’ such as Explorer.exe or svchost.exe that we’ve come to know. But we often see new ones, and may be curious as to where they came from, and or if they are malicious or not.
What’s better is that Processlibrary.com/ is Microsoft Gold Certified. Check them out!
June 14th, 2009
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