One complaint that I do come across after a user has had their screen set at its native resolution is that the size of the text on the screen has shrunk and, especially for smaller displays that run at high resolutions, can still be difficult to read. Luckily, you can increase the size of the …
Category: Windows XP
Dec 13 2010
Geek Toolkit Recommendation – CPU-Z
Just a quick update for tonight. Sometimes the tech savvy amongst us are called upon to look at all sorts of computers belonging to friends, family, work colleagues and sometimes unwanted acquaintances. Trying to find out more about the computer with which you are dealing can be difficult especially for ancient hardware. Unless you know about the …
Nov 10 2010
Phone Disk – Use Your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch as a Portable Drive
Ever since the original iPhone came out, people have complained about Apple’s decision to prevent its use as a portable drive. Apple’s original iPods (excluding the iPod Touch) all supported the use of the device as an external drive which would show up in Windows or MacOS as another disk drive. There have been a …
Oct 26 2010
Regain the Traditional Start Menu with Classic Shell
Here’s a quick tip for those that may have made the move to Windows 7 before realising the changes to the start menu and the taskbar or otherwise had change thrust upon them without much choice (like your old computer having gone to heaven thus requiring the purchase of a new computer). One of the …
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