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View Nikon RAW Files (NEF) in Windows

Alan McCloskeyJun 8, 2007June 21, 20140

If you are using a professional Nikon digital camera, then you may have discovered how useful the RAW file format is in the digital darkroom.

How to turn off the UAC (annoying confirmation prompts) in Windows 7

Alan McCloskeyMay 30, 2007June 21, 20141

If you believe all those Mac commercials, then Windows has been “plagued” with security problems. Many of these problems arise from users inadvertantly installing spyware

Professionally Repair DVDs Cheaply

Alan McCloskeyMay 22, 2007August 1, 20140

If you are a technology junkie then you no doubt have thousands of commercial CDs or DVDs, not to mention thousands more of your own

Hide Start Menu Documents, Pictures, and Programs

Alan McCloskeyMay 21, 2007August 1, 20140

If you have a computer that’s shared by a few others in your home (wife, roommates, sentient demon monkeys), then you want to protect your

Associate a File Type with a Windows Program

Alan McCloskeyMay 21, 2007August 1, 20141

It always happens to us. You have your favorite media player, graphics editor, HTML editor or whatever, and you install the latest codec or optional

Force Icons Back to Small XP Size

Alan McCloskeyMay 18, 2007August 1, 20140

Vista icons are much more realistic in appearance in comparison to the looser, illustrative style of Windows XP icons. The largest size included in the

Hide your recent Documents, Pictures, and Programs on Start Menu

Alan McCloskeyMay 14, 2007June 21, 20140

If you have a computer that’s shared by a few others in your home (wife, roommates, sentient demon monkeys), then you want to protect your

Take Ownership of Windows System Files

Alan McCloskeyMay 11, 2007June 21, 20143

It always happens, even in Windows XP... you need to move or delete some files, but Windows gives you an error that you need permission

How to Auto-Login with Windows 7

Alan McCloskeyMay 9, 2007August 1, 20140

Since your Media Center is set up to be an appliance, there’s no need to login every time it boots. Although it will automatically login

Screensaver doesn’t come on in Vista

Alan McCloskeyMar 5, 2007August 1, 20140

I had an issue on two of my computers where the screen saver would never start. I could preview the screen saver, but no matter

Enable New Window Effects in Vista

Alan McCloskeyMar 1, 2007August 1, 20140

The transitions in Windows Vista are neat, but there’s only one of them. Everyone keeps talking about how Vista is so much like Mac OS

Google Secrets You Never Knew

Alan McCloskeyFeb 28, 2007November 28, 20140

Google is a great general-purpose search engine, and is so popular that many people refer to searching for something on the Internet as “Googling”. Ubiquitous

Fix ‘COM Surrogate Has Stopped Working’ Error

Alan McCloskeyFeb 25, 2007July 31, 20140

It appears that the problem is not Divx, but Nero 7. Rename this file...

What is Windows Vista? (part 1)

Alan McCloskeyJan 30, 2007November 28, 20140

Windows Vista is the the latest release of Microsoft Windows, a line of graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops,

Windows XP detects only half my RAM

Alan McCloskeyJan 25, 2007June 21, 20140

Question from Blue13X “Hey guys. I have a P4 system with RDRAM. I had 4 banks with each 64mb, totaling 256. So I took out