Archive for category: Windows

Windows Re-installs made easy.

15 July, 2009 (01:30) | Computers, Windows | By: Shepy

I have recently built a new PC, so I’ve been planning to format and rebuild the old one to make it into a media server for the lounge to replace the ageing and slow machine already performing that function. One thing I was not looking forward to though was having to find all the drivers [...]

Top Ten Tools to Twitter

2 March, 2009 (17:56) | Computers, Twitter, Windows, internet | By: Shepy

Twitter can be an extremely valuable and useful resource, and also very fun, but only if used to its full potential. If you are new to twitter, and only just starting to get to grips with the service then you might wonder what all the fuss is about, I know I did when I [...]

Modlock V0.5 Released

19 August, 2008 (03:55) | Computers, Photography, Windows | By: Shepy

I have just released ModLock Version 0.5, which brings:

Added option for up to 4 extra customisable buttons
Added ability to check for updates manually or automatically
Filename name back to modlock.exe to prevent problems updating
Added double click support to tray icon

As usual, it can be downloaded from the ModLock page by clicking ‘modlock’ at the top right [...]

ModLock v0.3 Released

14 August, 2008 (13:18) | Computers, Photography, Windows | By: Shepy

The latest version of ModLock has been released, with the following features:

Added transparency support
Added auto run on startup option
Added minimize to tray functionality

ModLock now has its own page on the site, where you can dowload it from. That page can be found by clicking the ModLock link in the top left, or by clicking [...]

ModLock V0.2 Released

13 August, 2008 (14:33) | Computers, Photography, Windows | By: Shepy

Following on from this post.
After some feedback on a few forums I had posted ModLock on, a few changes have been made to the program and a new version has been released.
A screen shot of the new version:

Modifier (Alt, Ctrl, Shift) Lock for Tablet PC

12 August, 2008 (14:40) | Computers, Photography, Windows | By: Shepy

Recently i bought myself a Tablet PC / notebook, which I have been using quite a bit with photoshop to modify photographs when away from my main desktop PC.
One problem i stumbled into however with this is the need to use modifier keys, such as Alt or Shift to change the way in which a [...]

Avira results

27 June, 2008 (16:31) | Windows | By: Shepy

End of the scan: 27 June 2008 15:14
Used time: 5:41:36 min
The scan has been done completely.
48752 Scanning directories
2290751 Files were scanned
31033 Archives were scanned
I can live with that, under 6 hours suits me just nicely, less than half of what AVG was taking.
If you’re looking for some Windows Anti-Virus, especially if you have [...]

AVG Sucks

27 June, 2008 (09:28) | Windows | By: Shepy

Since the move over to the new 8 series AVG, it has ran like an absolute dog. Now i realise that I probably have more files than the average user, with over 1.5Tb of data on this machine, but considering that the old 7.5 version used to take approx 4.5 hours to scan, why [...]