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Speed up Your External Hard Drives with Vista

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Speed up External Drives

The default setting in Windows Vista disables write caching for external drives. This is done so that you can eject the drive at any time without data loss. If you are willing to eject your drive each time, you can increase the performance of your external hard drives.

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Tired of Waiting? Make Windows Shut Down Faster

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Windows Shutdown

As you install programs on your computer, it slows down - we all know that. However, what you may not know is that the programs install what we call services. Windows is “kind” enough to patiently wait for these services to stop when you shut down your computer. It really doesn’t pay off to wait, so lets shorten the courtesy period.

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Pranks You Can Play on Your Friends in Microsoft Windows

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pranks

Are you bored and do you want to play pranks on your friends? Get a few minutes with their PC and have some fun while you watch them try to figure out what’s going on.

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Add Up to Two Extra Clocks in Windows Vista

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vista clocks

Ever wanted to see, at a glance, what time it is in say… London or even Nuku’alofa? With Windows Vista you can.

This guide will show you how to add up to two extra clocks with Windows Vista without adding any extra software.

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StumbleUpon Trick to Get More of What You Want

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stumbleupon

Every time you click the Stumble! button, you are presented with a web page on one of the topics you specified earlier. Sometimes you want more control over what kind of pages you’d like to browse through.
To do this, you will need to enable the SumbleUpon search feature, which allows you to surf through web pages on a single topic of your liking until you specify otherwise.

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6 Ways to Waste Time - And You Don’t Even Have to Move

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Waste Time

Let’s face it — we love to waste time. We love to relax and lets our minds wander. Now we’ve got that out of the way… lets waste some time!!

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