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Know What Each Svchost.exe Instance is Doing with ScvHost Viewer

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Long back I had shown How to Fix svchost.exe Memory Hogging Issue. It is still one of the most viewed posts on Technically Personal! Now, this is a supplementary article to that post which helps you analyze and understand SvcHost.exe process in a much better way. I suggest you to read the parent article (link [...]

Windows 7 Themes for Vista and XP – Best on the Web

Thursday, January 8, 2009

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Windows 7 Themes for Vista and XP – Best on the Web

As mentioned earlier, Microsoft has announced the launch of Windows 7 (beta) and you can grab a free copy as well. But, for that you are required to be using Vista and you must have enough RAM to spare. Just in case you like to test-drive and experience the Windows 7 feeling, here are some [...]

Prevent Your PC from Crashing – Protect Your Registry

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

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When I decided to launch the first ever Giveaway on Technically Personal, I was sure what I am offering is something really worth for the winners. Just in case if you are wondering what’s the big deal about the bunch of software offered, spare a couple of minutes and read below. What is Windows Registry? The Windows [...]

[Tiny Tip] Get Task Manager Directly on click of Ctrl+Alt+Del

Monday, December 29, 2008

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[Tiny Tip] Get Task Manager Directly on click of Ctrl+Alt+Del

This is a small tutorial on how to get the Task manager directly on click of Ctrl + Alt + Del buttons on Windows. Alternatively, I will also tell you how to get the admin menu options instead of task manager on clcik of Ctrl + Alt + Del. 1. Go to Start –> Control panel. 2. [...]

Make your Windows XP / Vista Faster with this Simple Trick

Thursday, December 25, 2008

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Pagefile.sys is a windows system file which acts as a virtual memory extension of a computer’s real memory RAM. By default, pagefile.sys is set to the same size as your actual physical memory size and might consume a huge disk space of your computer hard drive space. When physical RAM is fully used and there [...]

[TP : TimePass] Windows Vista

Sunday, December 21, 2008

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This is first of the [TP : TimePass] series where I will be sharing some funny, interesting stuff mostly related to Internet or Technology. Intriguing and blatantly true Image Credits: mringlein If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

[How to] Disable Windows Update Restart Nag

Thursday, November 20, 2008

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This has been one of the most irritating nags ever in Windows (only next to the blue screen nag in Window 98!!). If you have Automatic updates turned on, there will be security patches released regularly. As and when your system gets updated, a nagging pop-up comes up asking for a restart. This will be [...]

[Tiny Tip] Skip User Accounts Screen in Windows Vista

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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I am sure many geeks would have given a silly look after reading the title, indicating its such a simple thing to do. But this blog is NOT only for geeks. One of the avid reader, Binoy George, who happens to be one of the very first RSS subscriber of Technically Personal was asking me [...]