Tag: EMPTY

One of my resolutions this year was to stick to a regular system maintenance plan. I've got CCleaner set up to purge garbage files and prune my registry, Security Essentials doing nightly scans for malware, and the Windows 7 backup utility saving my important files to an external hard drive. A handy little tool I'm adding to my routine is Vanity Remover. It's a small, portable tool designed to ...

If your email volume is anything like mine, it's totally insane. Thousands of messages constantly streaming in and, only a tiny fraction of those are messages you need to see. Surprising then, that only a few years ago I was literally living inside Microsoft Outlook. Rigid folders, the nightmarish rules "wizard", and that annoying inbox chime that dings regardless of which folder your new ...

Desktop icons are a pain to use--to get at them you have to stop what we're doing and minimize everything--so why do we keep using them? Hey, don't ask me. A blogger called AJ, though, has put together a handy tutorial for ditching desktop icons in Windows altogether and replacing them with less disruptive alternatives, namely a handy taskbar pop-up or extra toolbar. It's pretty straightforward ...