computer support, pc tricks and tips

If you haven’t tried Windows 7

Windows 7 Being the next version of windows coming out later this year.

Then Sign up for the the release candidate (final version before release) now.

I am using the beta version and it works great.

You can try the release candidate for year for FREE.

Found this great free tool you can use find what hardware a laptop or PC has.

I used it to find out what chipset a laptop had.

Trust me its much better that trawling through Device Manager.

Which is often somewhat lacking in detail.

By default Winamp ignores any multimedia keys on your keyboard.

To enable them, go to options, preferences.

Select the general options tab, then Global Hotkeys.

And the click the boxes…”Enable Default multimedia keys”, and “Enabled”

This program is amazing, and FREE!!!

Heres a list of things it can to.

Get it here

you can now add a Nvidia driver widget to your webpage heres a link to the code

Heres what one version looks like..

Page with guides

This marvelous utility enables you to mount isos and other disk images with your right click menu

FairUse4WM will that strip stupid fucking DRM shit from your Zune files and windows media files

Quick frankly if you have paid for the media I see no reason why should tolerate it.

Proving software copy protection is excellent at frustrating honest people, and a minor inconvenience to everyone else.

Get it here

Winrar only handles up to a 260 character file length.

Dont go over this it wont unrar

My Vista would not sleep, it would enter sleep mode for a few secs, then come back on again.

One searched high and, a behold I found the light…

http://www.appcrash.net/2007/02/cant-sleep-try-this.asp

Turned out there was a wake up event in my network card properties.