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As you know, to have a snappy, fast and responsive operating system it’s a good habit to run, at least once every month (in my humble opinion) the Disk Cleanup utility which, in Windows Vista, is located under Computer – right-click on the partition where you O.S. is installed (usually C:) – Propierties – Disk Cleanup. Sometimes, the scanning process may take quite a long time because the utility has to scan a lot of  compressed files. Here is a simple hack to speed up the scanning process. Continue reading »

I still remember when a few days ago I spoke about a new Gmail feature called Offline  Gmail which lets you use your Gmail account even though you don’t have an Internet connection at hand. This nice option is only available for your computer of course, isn’t it? Well, according to Vic Gundotra,  VP of engineering at Google, soon you will be able to write e-mails and perform other nice things with your Gmail even in your iPhone and Android phone without the need of any Internet connection! Continue reading »

Shuttle is not new at bare bones desktop computers. You may want to read my articles about Shuttle X2700N Nettop and Shuttle XPC SN78SH7 to know more. So I was not thrilled at all  when a few days ago the same computer company unveiled a new Shuttle bare bone XPC micro PC which, differently from the previous model boasts an hardware  more powerful and apt for games. Here are its specs. Continue reading »

Do you remember all the good, cheap barebone computers? No fear!  They are still right there and they are doing  just fine. The only difference is that their name has been changed to… “Nordic Simple Style”.  So, you can well underdstand my amazement when, a few days ago, MSI announced its new, cheap Wind NetTop D130. Continue reading »

While trying to install/uninstall applications from Windows 7 by using the well-known Windows Installer, or even while trying to update the operating system by using Windows Update, the system could get stuck or crash causing Windows Explorer or even Windows Installer itself to give the user the following error messages: “Windows Explorer has stopped working” -  “Windows Installer has stopped working”.  Continue reading »

If you are a regular Web Talk’s reader you should know by now that I have something for spy-watches. I mean that I like watches doing a lot of things. And the more stuff they have got the better, even though you need a needle to activate and set them all! If you missed my previous articles about spy watches, you can read them by clicking here. One thing I have noticed since I started talking about them is that  technology has gone ahead by big jumps providing watches smaller and smaller,  with a lot of features and without forgetting to take care of their style. Continue reading »

The guys at WinVistaClub have recently released  a beautiful theme for Windows 7 named OneWorld. The theme is 8 MB and has been tested on 32-bit  Windows 7 Beta Build. To install it, just download the theme, and follow these easy instructions. Continue reading »

Google has recently added a new interesting feature to its Adsense program letting those bloggers  who have got a parked domain without actually any blog on it, display specific advertisements, thus avoiding the horrible and famous page displaying the dreaded 404 error message or the “Domain under Construction” message. All you have to do is log-in your Adsense, go to the Adsense Setup tab and click the Adsense for Domains link. Here you can find the instruction on how to setup and prepare your unused domain for Adsense.