Windows Tools, Help & Guides

If you would like to build your own website, you can do it on your own computer without putting it online. This can be useful for a number of reasons:

1. You don’t have your own web hosting to test with
2. You want to test a website before you put it online
3. You want to start a website that helps you organize your life, for example, but you don’t always have access to the internet

In this guide, you’ll learn how to set up Apache, MySQL, and PHP on your computer. This will be the base for your website and will create an environment for you to develop in.

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For the next week, I’m going to run a series of guides that will help you build and run a website on your Windows machine.

If you would like to build your own website, you can do it on your own computer without putting it online. This can be useful for a number of reasons:

1. You don’t have your own web hosting but you want the experience of complete access
2. You want to test a website before you put it online
3. You want to start a website that helps you organize your life, for example, but you don’t always have access to the internet

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A collection of Flower Wallpapers from mlewallpapers.com. We, in the Northern Hemisphere, are in Spring and Summer is just around the corner. I love the warm weather and I love the colors spring gives us! Enjoy these wallpapers and please let us know about any more you like.

Want more wallpaper?

Check out the wallpaper section of Windows Guides

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Windows Free Extended Task Manager provides additional Windows process management features and information about disk activity and network port usage. If you are a geek, who likes to know everything about your computer, this program is a must.

Extended Task Manager features

• Displays disk input/output activity with information about related applications
• Displays network port activity with IP addresses of external computers
• Displays information about applications that utilized most of the CPU or memory at any time presented on the charts
• Displays all files locked by a select process
• Finds all processes locking a specified file
• Includes “Summary” tab for quickly assessing the overall state of the Windows system
• Allows freezing individual Windows processes
• Offer various visual and functional improvements over the standard Windows Task Manager

Free Extended Task Manager

If you are looking for a collection of fonts, I have just the ticket! Here you may download a collection of 233 comic-themed fonts for Windows or Mac. These fonts are all in True Type Font (TTF) format.

Download the zip file (4.15 MB)

Preview of the Fonts

Here you may preview a few of the fonts:

Want More Fonts?

Download more fonts here.

Unsure How to Use These Fonts?

Learn how to install a font here.

Office 2007 comes with a utility named Groove and I assume you already know that because you’re reading this guide. Learn how to remove it below.

I have no need for Groove, which syncs your documents for collaboration with others. If you have no need for this, you can do either of the following: remove Groove completely or remove references to the groove in Windows Explorer.

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