August 05, 2008
Fix IT Newsletter Alert August 2008 Issue 0009 News New Pages since last newsletter... Articles
Hello As the summer goes, so does my writing. Not much to write about. So some things that have came to my attention over the last couple of weeks. Do you have a Core 2 processor? I wrote an article about how to control which processor a program used (Affinity), part of an 'Optimizing' scheme to get the most out of your computer. Well the original Author of the program has sold/given his rights to another author. The resulting program is quite useful and well written you can download it here: Another program I have been using for the last couple of weeks is called 360desktop. Those that have dual monitors will realize how much more real estate two monitors gives you for opening applications. What if you don't have the desktop space or the funds for a second monitor? What if some clever gals and guys figured out a way to rotate your desktop through 360 degrees? Well they have and I think it is a great program. As a matter of fact I think it is so great I will recommend it to anyone that has a space problem. You know what I mean you look at your taskbar and see nine or ten maybe more programs. True you can only work on one at a time but if you have them stacked up one on top of another it takes a little time for the one on the bottom to become active. So what this program does is it allows you to spread out your programs across the 360 degrees of your monitor and all your programs are on top. (Well with in reason, I had twelve programs running at one time and only four were stacked and I have a 19" LCD screen). You can read about it here: Affinity II Freeware for Windows XP Have you ever wanted to have a simple desktop, you know one with out the mountains and rivers, all those different colors? Well if you want to you can make your desktop revert to the Windows 2000 desktop. Before the XP and Vista themes. It is very simple all you have to do is turn off the Themes service. I did a little research and decided to give it a try. I tested this on three different computers, two with XP and one with Vista. It does work and you gain back up to 4 kilobytes of memory (it doesn't sound like much but every bit helps when you are optimizing for performance, especially on system with a minimum of memory -ram). To turn off the Themes you need to go to the Services in the Computer Management console. You have to disable the service, setting it to manual will not stop it from running Other news: AVG 8 - As you know I brought up the fact that the original version or AVG 8 would not install on a XP Operating System computer if AVG 7.5 was installed on it then uninstalled. The installation would fail. After submitting a bug report to AVG and waiting for three weeks I have heard back from them. They indicate the problem has been resolved, I downloaded the paid version that is en_8_138a1332, the free version is also 138a1332. I have installed the en_8_138a1332 version of four test computers with AVG 7.5, two I uninstalled 7.5 and two I let the AVG 8 install program uninstall 7.5. The install for all four computers went as advertised. So Grisoft has fixed the installation problems for the paid version. Do you use cd or dvd's to back up your data? Did you know that the cheap media will fail sooner than the more expensive? I received this article from a blogger I write articles for on occasion:
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