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How to Save Important Cookies

RJ — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:06:09 +0000

On the internet, cookies are a way of life — love them or loathe them, they are a required component of day-to-day use of the ‘internets’. While there are many misconceptions about cookies, namely that they’re evil or that they may damage your PC, even some of the people who know better just like to [...]

New Tutorial: View Outlook Email Source Code

RJ — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:18:55 +0000

Recently, Spamcop disallowed forwarding spam message from Microsoft’s Outlook email client. As this was the easiest solution for me to report spam that actually made it to my inbox, I really wanted to find a way to view the full source code of Outlook Emails easily, and I did. I put together this new [...]

Secure Online Backup Service

RJ — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:05:49 +0000

Chances are, the files that you store on your computer are pretty important to you. Whether you have personal projects on your computer’s hard drive, important emails, videos and pictures of your family and friends, your taxes, or just a big list of your favorite recipes — you would probably hate to lose some [...]

Fixing the Firefox / Google Search Hijack

RJ — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:37:36 +0000

A few weeks back I was using Google Chrome to browse the net, and then my firewall went nuts — it appeared as though all kinds of bugs were installing themselves on my system, and I couldn’t stop them. Well, after running several different anti-spyware, adware, and anti-virus utilities, my PC was labeled as [...]

Is Your Cable / DSL Internet Slow? Optimize your PCs Connection

RJ — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:27:15 +0000

Sometimes the reason that your internet connection seems slow is because your computer is not configured correctly. In this day of blazing-fast DSL and Cable Connections — some of us, who have these fast internet services, still live with dialup / ISDN internet settings… and that’s a shame. I was checking out the Network Path [...]

New Tutorial: Speed up your Computer by Removing Indexing Services

RJ — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:59:01 +0000

We all love tips on how to make our computers faster, and this line of thinking is the very reason why we started OptimizePc and why we offer a number of computer how-tos. Our newest tutorial covers a simple trick for Windows computer users that will allow them to remove a service that is [...]

Unlock Locked Files and Folders on Windows XP

RJ — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:49:43 +0000

Sometimes certain folders and files just do not want to cooperate. You get a “cannot delete” message when trying to delete, remove, or copy certain files or folders - predominantly on Windows XP. There is a simple, and free, fix for Windows Computers that will allow you to delete and remove locked folders [...]

New Tutorial: Clean IE7 Web Browsing History

RJ — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:06:19 +0000

Continuing on in our vein of supplying top-of-the-line PC optimization tips and tutorials, we have put together a step-by-step guide on how to clean your Internet Explorer web browser. This tutorial covers not only the quick and easy way of removing your temporary internet files, cookies, form data and stored passwords, but it also include [...]

Menu Inventor - Alternative to Windows’ Start Menu

RJ — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:21:24 +0000

Before my laptop’s hard drive failed, my Windows XP start menu and installed programs list was three columns long. Needless to say, it was nearly impossible to find anything when I had to rely on sifting through the scores of programs and applications that were installed on my PC. Several months back I stumbled on [...]

Fixing Windows’ NTLDR Error Message

RJ — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:15:33 +0000

I somehow knew I was making a mistake, yet I continued on with my ignorance anyway. My hard drive failed in my Dell Vostro laptop, which was still under warranty - so Dell shipped a new hard drive out to me straight away - they even “preloaded” it for me… Nice in theory, except the [...]