It is quite interesting to note that OpenOffice saves MS Word files with better efficiency when compared to MS Office. Tests here showed that the file saved in OpenOffice Writer was less than half the size of the file saved in MS Word containing absolutely the same content! Considering it is free, TechWhack would recommend [...]

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Getting Strikethrough on Visited Links back in Opera Browser
Opera Browser had this interesting and very useful option till some versions back. They removed it after noticing that a lot of websites come with their own CSS settings for visited links which nullified the usage of this feature. However, Google results and many other webpages still [...]

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*techwhack exclusive feature*
Towards the end of this year, when Windows XP’s latest update (Service Pack 2) is satisfactorily rolled-out we are going to see a media blitz. Looks like Microsoft favours letting a year or two roll-by, and getting a good service pack out of the door, before advertising in public media about their OS [...]

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Surfing in Firefox with tabs, if you take the cursor to the tabs, and scroll the wheel… you can move between the tabs! Very cool…
Still Opera has me owned with rightclick and scroll mouse gesture to move between tabs…
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Don’t you hate it when some program just unilaterally changes your file associations — so all of your music opens up in Windows Media Player, instead of MusicMatch, for example? Well there’s utility that’ll give you back control of how Windows selects programs to open files. In addition to locking down associations, it also lets [...]

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nLite - cut-down the size of your Windows CD, and more!
Hey, some of us are bothered about the existence of utilities we never use in windows. If you feel so too, this tool is for you. It is to be used on an existing Windows 2000/XP/2003 installer CD - it will aid you in removing [...]

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use unattended CDs to simplify Windows deployment
You can make customized Windows XP CDs for deployment within your company. Make your CDs in such a way that they already are updated to the latest Service Pack, have all patches installed, and all the applications you need, and the settings you need to pre-configure every-time. You [...]

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Windows Explorer caches DLLs (Dynamic-Link Libraries) in memory for a period of time after the application using them has been closed. This can be an inefficient use of memory.
1. Find the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer].
2. Create a new DWORD sub-key named ‘AlwaysUnloadDLL’ and set the default value to equal ‘1′ to disable Windows caching the DLL [...]

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SYMPTOMS
After you install Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1), your programs may take as much as ten times as long to start.
CAUSE
This problem may occur if the programs you run frequently allocate and deallocate large blocks of memory. Changes in Windows XP SP1 in the memory management system have caused this operation to take [...]

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This tweak will launch most executables with the priority setting you want it to have.
Let’s say you have a game installed called HIGH NEEDS and the executable is called HN.exe
Here’s what to do:
-Create a new textfile in the game-app wathever-directory (let’s say C:\HN), but instead of giving it the .txt extension you [...]

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