A file association is the program windows opens to open a specific file. Windows will know what type of file it is, and when the user attempts to open the file Windows will launch the program that can open this file so the user can view it. When windows wants to open a file it [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Anyone who owns a Widows based PC will notice reduction in performance since it was first purchased. It freezes every now and then or programs stops responding or are very slow. Instead of throwing out your PC or spending a lot of money taking it to the repair shop, ask yourself: why is my computer [...]
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This technique is unique to Windows XP. As some of you may know, it is necessary to periodically do a little PC Clean Up, scrub the registry and TEMP files. And the prefetch in Windows XP is a useful technique, but the prefetch directory can fill up with junk files and obsolete links over time [...]
By default, Windows Vista indexes the files on your computer and stores them in memory to speed up the time taken when a search of the hard drives is done. This is a good feature if you never find your files and do a lot of searching to find what you need, but it also [...]
Uninstalling using the uninstallers that come with the software, or using add/remove programs in Windows rarely removes the programs completely. In fact, it leaves behind several traces in your Program Files folder, the registry and other places. Sometimes the program may be running in the background without you even knowing it, hogging up resources. So [...]
When you go about uninstalling programs and application, they are never completely removed, especially if you use the add/remove programs function in windows. Now most programs do come with a uninstall program, but this too will leave several traces of the program in various places inside the computer. The most harmful places they are left [...]




