If you’re running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) Windows Security Center should tell you the status of your antivirus software, firewall, and automatic updates. Security Center will alert you if your antivirus is out of date or turned off, firewall is turned off, or if Automatic Update is not turned on.
This can get quite [...]

It gets on one’s nerve when you have to wait for minutes for XP to shutdown, when it takes lesser time for a boot.
The reason that the shutdown times increase over the days is due to the services and applications that keep increasing as you install new software. Windows waits for each service to terminate [...]

Ever since I installed this updated version of ATI Catalyst Display drivers, i have been plagued by this terrible menace. The “ATI Catalyst Control Center” is the first item that pops up on my context menu. This can be really frustrating, especially for geeks who is so much adapted with the keystrokes for File>New.
Here’s [...]

With just a small tweak, open infinite yahoo messenger accounts simultaneously..

GOOG is trying to outrun MS in a number of spheres.. but gaming ? It seems that Google Earth has a hidden flight simulator in it.
To access this hidden feature, open Google Earth and hit Ctrl+Alt+A [Capital A] or Command+Option+A for a mac.
The Flight Sim comes with two aircraft options, a F16 Viper and the [...]

One ‘feature’ of XP is the ability of one application to steal the focus from another. This is the reason why your chat window looses focus when someone else buzzes you on Yahoo! messenger. [That's still ok.. Imagine playing NFS MostWanted when your antivirus alerts you that it has been updated. ]
If you [...]