For Windows 7 users, you can actually make use of these excess cores to speed up your computer’s boot up process. What’s best is that you won’t even need to install any software to do so. Here’s how to it:

• Click on your start button, in the search box, type msconfig and hit enter.

• A System Configuration screen will appear.

• Go to the Boot tab and click on Advance options…
• Tick on the check box for Number of processors and select the number of processors you want to use for your boot up.

• Click on OK.
• Then hit on Apply button and the computer will prompt you to restart the computer so that the setting and take effect.

Once you have enabled the setting, your computer will restart using the number of processors you selected. The more processors used, the faster the boot up process.

Go and test it for yourself.

Therefore, that is where Screengrab comes in handy. Screengrab is a Firefox add-on which makes the process of grabbing a webpage much easier by just a few clicks of a button. With Screengrab, you can choose to save your webpage from a small selection, the visible portion to an entire webpage. By entire webpage it means the entire scrollable webpage.

You can download and install Screengrab by clicking here. To complete the installation, you will need to restart your Firefox browser. After the browser has restarted, you will be able to see a Screengrab icon appearing on the lower right corner of your browser.

To save a webpage, all you need to do is to click on the icon, mouse-over on the save… tab and then select the size of the webpage you want to save.

So, the next time you need to save a webpage, don’t forget to use Screengrab. It will certainly save you a lot of the trouble and frustrations.

Click here to download Screengrab.

To add a drop cap using Microsoft Word 2010 is extremely easy.

1. Position your cursor anywhere in the paragraph you would like to add the drop cap on.
2. On your Insert tab, in the Text group, click on the Drop Cap.
3. Then select the styling you want for your drop cap.

By default, the letter will drop down by three lines. However, you can customize the font and the lines to drop for the letter in the Drop Cap Options Screen.

Now your document will look better with the drop cap effect.

SkipScreen is a useful add-on to your Firefox browser. Although it won’t eliminate the waiting time for you, it save you a lot a trouble by automatically download the file for you after the waiting time has expires. Therefore, you need not have to constantly keep a watch on the time left for you to wait.

SkipScreen is free for download and it works on the following sites:

Rapidshare

Megaupload

Mediafire

Uploaded.to

zShare

Sharebee

DepositFiles

Sendspace

Divshare

Linkbucks

Link-protector

And more on the way…

Go ahead and try it!

Click here to go to SkipScreen website.

In addition, with the friendly user Interface, DriverEasy can save you too much time & energy to find out the latest drivers of your computer. It is fully compatible with all current OS (including Windows XP 32bit, XP 64bit, Vista 32bit, Vista 64bit,  Windows 7 32bit, Window7 64bit).

Scanning.

Scan Summary. Showed you the number of outdated drivers, number of missing drivers. Click [Get Drivers] to get them.

Download Driver. Choose & download which drivers you want.

Besides, you can backup, restore or uninstall the drivers.

Highlighted Benefits :

- Auto Detect & Download Drivers

- 1000000+ Hardware Driver Database

- Driver Backup, Restore & Uninstall

- Supports Windows XP, Vista & 7

- FREE for Personal Use

- High Speed Download

- One-Click Setup Feature

- Extremely Easy-to-Use

Download it here.

sources : DriverEasy

Google says Leanback is meant to be used on large screens like your television so you might want to try this out on a larger screen like your Internet-capable television. Laptops are also suitable for this service.

Everything can be controlled directly from the Keyboard, and the keys are simple.  The arrow keys and the Return (or Enter key on some keyboards) are the only keys you’ll need to use.  Involving playback, you can skip past videos, fast forward, rewind, stop, pause, or skip backwards to videos you’ve already seen.

Just press the down key until you see a horizontal list of different video feeds organized by subject. Leanback has a number of different video categories, including sports, science & technology, film & animation, YouTube movie rentals, how-to videos, and so on.

To sum it up, YouTube Leanback is a great video streaming services that you will enjoy using it anywhere.

Try it now here.

sources : groovy Post, PC World

You can use Load Impact for testing the traffic that a particular web site can handle.

It is a new online service that allows you to see how much traffic your website can handle.

1. Once your entered Load Impact web site, enter your web site address in the box besides [Load test your website] and click Start Test.

2. Next, click Start Free Test under the Run Free Load Test option on the left. You can use paid service with more features if you like.

3. The test will takes some times to run from start to finish. While the test runs, a status bar at the top of the screen displays the progress. The current speed and total kB transferred are monitored.

4. Results are displayed on a graph below the progress bar. The graph shows the response time users would receive based on the number of other users on the site.

Since the test only monitors the impact of 50 simultaneous users, it is only a base prediction, subject to mathematical variance. Other test are available if you choose to register, including a bandwidth test.

sources : Load Impact, Online Tech Tips

It’s best to check the strength of your desired password before using it.

How to check it?

I personally recommend How Secure Is My Password?

The website looks very simple.

Just type your password at the form provided.

It will calculate and give you how long it would take for a desktop pc to crack your password.

Guess what I typed?

“It would take About 154 nonillion year for a desktop PC to crack your password.”

There are FAQs :

1. Is This Safe?

2. Is This Accurate?

3. How It Works?

There is also password guidelines :

- Choosing A Secure Password

Check them out!!!

My little advice : No matter how strong your password is, just remember it!

Click here to check how secure is your password

sources : Online Tech Tips

Here’s how :

1. Just create a new shortcut to any place/path

2. Type the %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe shell:RecycleBinFolder into the Type the location of the item edit box and then click Next.

3. Right click the created shortcut and select Properties.

4. Click the Change icon. Change the icon path to %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll

5. Select any icon you desired and press OK.

6. Drag the icon to the taskbar to pin it to the taskbar.

7. Once the shortcut is pinned, you can delete the original on the desktop.

8. It’s done.

sources : Help Desk Geek

There are a few solutions to this problem.

1st solution :

- Just click [x] every time you see the invitation notification. (Doesn’t solve the problem)

2nd solution :

- Click on the invitation notification area – [!You have _ invitations]

- You will be redirect to the invitations page (similar to below pictures)

- Click [Accept] or [No, thanks]

- Remember to click [sign out]

3rd solution :

- Click on the invitation notification area – [!You have _ invitations]

- You will be redirect to the invitations page

- Click [Accept] or [No, thanks]

- Close your Windows Live Messenger

- Go to Computer/Local Disk (C:)/Users/YourUsername/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows Live Contacts

- Delete everything inside that folder

- Open your Windows Live Messenger and sign in

- No more annoying invitation notification

I don’t know if  Windows Live have solve this annoying bug or not. However, just choose any solutions that is suitable to you.

sources : vBulletin