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Tag: Tweak

Reducing memory usage in Mozilla Firefox

If you’re like me, you use Mozilla Firefox as your preferred web browser. However, Firefox has one great weakness; its great love of RAM. I browsed around the web a bit, and found this workaround, which should help a bit at least. I have tried it, and it worked nicely for me. What this […]

05/11/2008
Renaming your wireless network connection

Being one to muck about quite a bit with my computers, my wireless network connection is now called “Wireless Network Connection 5”, like so: Annoying though it may be, it is, however, really easy to remedy. Here’s how:

30/07/2008
How to change the default Save As or Open location – TweakUI

In my last post, I showed you how to use the GPEdit app to change the default Save As/Open locations. There’s another way to do this, using that great little tool called TweakUI.

27/06/2008
How to change the default Save As or Open location – GPEdit

I’ve been annoyed that I’ve not been able to change the default Save As/Open locations, as well as changing the 5 options I get on the Places Bar. Here’s what it looks like default:

25/06/2008
Deactivating Automatic Reboot after Windows Update

Have you ever returned to your computer only to find it having restarted, and all of your data gone? For a myriad of reasons, I keep my computers running continuously for a long time at a time. This makes this insistence on a reboot not only annoying, but in its extremes, it can actually make […]

12/05/2008