Tech Writing for the Faint of Heart

Sometimes it may be beyond a companies or individuals budget to hire a professional writer to address their technical documentation. Although in an ideal world all technical documentation should be produced by a highly trained expert, unfortunately we do not live in an ideal. In the same way that many people will attempt to repair their own home… Read More »

Five Reasons to Start a Website

Many of us have dream about starting a web site. In my experience I recall being in high school and daydreaming about how great it would be to have my own chatting service. I dreamed of a site with that ever-popular space wallpaper, you know it’s black with the little stars on it.

Install VB6 on Windows 7

After surfing around the net, I’ve found very little information regarding installation of VB6 on Windows 7. Most of the information out there is for Vista, and most of it is queries for assistance.

The Evaluation Process Of Data Recovery

As most people already know, almost all hard drives fail due to normal use and conditions.  Although it can happen at anytime, hard drive failure normally takes several years to occur, due to normal wear and tear.  No matter what the case may be, you should always be fully aware of the options that are available to you,… Read More »

IRQ Priority Tweak

You will need to create a new DWORD: IRQ#Priority (where # is the number of the IRQ you want to prioritize) and give it a setting of 1. This setting gives the requisite IRQ channel priority over the other IRQs on a software level.

Auto-sort the Start Menu

Go to Edit/Permissions, click Advanced, clear the “Inherit From Parent” check box, click Copy from the dialog box, click OK and then clear the “Full Control” for your account and now Windows will auto sort the start menu, but you can still do it too.

Force XP to Unload DLLs

XP has a bad habit of keeping dynamic link libraries that are no longer in use resident in memory. Not only do the DLLs use up precious memory space, but they also tend to cause stability problems in some systems.