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Quick ShutDown is a fairly old, but damn good small piece of free software that shuts down windows quickly, be it Windows 2000, NT or XP).

It may not seem like much but the Windows Quick Shut Down application quickly terminates running processes, removes any USB devices and shuts down windows with impressive speed.

To make things easier it also has a windows taskbar button that can shut down or reboot your PC depending on if you single or double click it.

Windows Quick Shut Down is 100% free, very configurable and one of… Continue Reading»

I have used Microsoft Windows Vista for quite a while now on both my PC and Laptop. I found that without spending a load of money on upgrading Vista slowed down quite considerably after a few weeks. This was quite annoying because without regularly spending several hours messing around Windows Vista would slow down after a week or two.

I recently found a new program which has speeded up Windows Vista considerably as well as reducing the amount of clutter on my computer. Windows Vista, Microsofts… Continue Reading»

There have been time when I have to wait for atleast 5 minutes for my PC to shut Down so that I could pull the Power Strip. But not anymore. It now takes me at the most 3 second to shut it down. It depends a lot on the System resources and the number of software you have installed on your PC. But here I am not going to tell you to upgrade your PC, buy more RAM or even uninstall all those unnecessary programs. What I am going to show you is a simple trick using which you can Shut down your PC in under 5 seconds. Continue Reading»

For all those folks that have not yet switched to Firefox yet, here comes another reason to consider moving. This Firefox extension lets you flip through tabs with awesome 3D effect. When you have this extension installed, flipping through tabs will make become a charm. It renders a cuboidal structure, where each tab acts as side of the Cube. Linux users will love this extesion as it looks similar to Beryl in Linux. Continue Reading»

When Microsoft made Vista, they forgot that with so much of eye candy, it will become bulky may even take minutes if not hours, to run simple processes like paint or Word. But thank god, a little bit of tweaking, and your Windows vista will again run smoothly. These are some of the tips that will help you to speed up vista and run the regular programs without any problem. Continue Reading»