The Weekly Geek

When you click on the “Start” button and hover over the “All Programs” button and then your individual programs buttons, there is a slight delay. I see no reason for that. We can decrease and even remove that delay with a simple registry edit.
Before you make the following changes to the registry, be sure to [...]

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Continuing on with the quick things you need to do for your computer, here is my list of monthly suggestions.
Update software programs – check for updates on all programs, even those you “rarly” use. Adobe, Pinnacle, your GPS software. Bad guys use “holes” in these programs to get into and mess up your computer and [...]

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This post is primarily for those of you still on Dial-up or with cheapest “high speed” internet money can buy.
We can speed up your surfing of some web sites by attempting to stop the animations that play. Now, web developers use different ways to create animations, this is just one way to stop some of [...]

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I actually wrote about this in 2004 and again in 2007 but a few people have forgotten and sometimes Vista tweaks are not the same as previous version.
Anyway, many times you are updating / downloading many files at the same time. Microsoft limits this to 2 or 3, I forget (since I run the tweak on [...]

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Now that most of you are off of Windows 98 and ME, I would like to share this little tweak.
Files that use the 8.3 naming convention can degrade NTFS drive performance. Unless you have a good reason for keeping the 8.3 naming convention intact (such as if you’re using 16-bit programs), a performance gain can [...]

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