Digeus Registry Cleaner is a great program that cleans out all the little bits and pieces of useless information from your computer’s registry.  A registry is like a closet, with information stored in it. It’s not really like a closet, but let’s just say it is so I can continue with the next line. As is common with most Windows machines, it’s a closet that has been long overdue for its spring cleaning.  Many computers that run slow have massive registries, and because careless programs running in Windows frequently forget to clean up after themselves and the operating system needs more time to scan and interpret all the information. MORE »

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Dell recently brought back its “10 Days of Deals”, where everyday there are.. well, new deals!  On the third day, they were going to have S2009W 20 in. HD monitors going for about $89.00 each.  After deciding I was going to get two of these beauties, I started to wonder how I would compete with everybody else who wakes up to orders these.  I’ve had bad experiences getting orders in for things in demand (ie. Woot’s Bag of Crap).  After brainstorming, I decided to hop onto Dell Live Chat to see if they could help me out.  To my disappointment, they said no.  Then I decided to call Dell Sales, where a kind woman was more then eager to help me with my purchase.  Apparently, these sales techs were given the green light to sell these monitors at bargain prices two days prior to the actual sale.  After a few days, I checked a random forum that popped up in my google search for these monitors.  People were having so much trouble ordering these monitors.  Somebody even said that they were told that the monitors were sold out before the sale began, which is obviously wrong, because many people were still ordering.

All in all, I am very satisfied with Dell Sales Techs, and my monitors are awesome.  They are in 16:9 aspect ratio, and may take a little getting used too.  But most movies and shows are in this ratio, and I can’t tell if things are stretching perfectly or if its just my imagination.  FYI, I went from a 20.1 in Acer Widescreen and a 19 in Princeton Fullscreen to these two 20 in’s.  Even though, the Acer is still a nice monitor, these Dell’s are way more aesthetically pleasing.

CCleaner-  This is one of the best PC unclogging utilities out there.  It cleans all of your cookies, garbage in your recycle bin, unused registry keys, and much much more.

1. Download it
2. Install it
3. Run the program.

The default settings usually are perfectly fine for beginners, but if not, tweak them to your desired settings.

Now to begin the process,

1. Click “Analyze”.  After its done scanning, it will point out the amount of space that it will clean out and what it will clean.
2. Hit “Run Cleaner” and it will work its magic.

It is now time to clean the registry

1. Go to the “Registry” tab on the left.
2. Click “Scan for Issues”-wait for it to scan
3. Click “Fix Selected Issues”
4. Answer yes or no (personally I don’t back up but that’s not necessarily the right thing to do.  I’ll leave that up to you)
5. “Fix All Selected Issues”.

Voila, you’re done.

A bonus feature to this program is their Uninstaller feature (Click “Tools” on the left).  It is a easy-peasy way of uninstalling useless programs.  Another plus, is the ability to tweak your computer’s start up programs which is located underneath the Uninstall button.  Look up the program in Process Library, and determine if you really want that program to start up.   Please don’t disable any anti virus programs and/or firewall.

CCleaner makes PC cleaning easy and painless.  If you like it, consider donating.

This little 630 kb file is a life saver for people with OCD.  It allows you to drag and drop the programs that are running on your taskbar for quick reorganization.

Before:

After:

Reorganized in a few seconds.  Doesn’t this look more appealing?

This type of functionality should be defaulted with every version of Windows.  The only downside is that it does not work on my second monitor’s taskbar, which is power by Ultramon.  The makers of Taskbar shuffle wrote in their 2.5 release notes that Taskbar Shuffle does function with Ultramon, but that is not the case for me.  Oh well.

Download Taskbar Shuffle

Digsby IM Client is down at the moment.  Their site is also down.  So it’s not just you =)

Update From Digsby:

We are having server-side issues that brought down the service.  We are working on the problem now and will be back up shortly.  If you want to be notified when we come back online, send an email to bugs@digsby.com.

After a year of almost perfect uptime, this is the second outage in the last week.  This is completely unacceptable and we will make sure this does not become a regular occurrence!

AsktheAdmin

Digsby is now back up.

500 GB WD My Passport for $102.99 at Dell.com

OCZ Diesel 16GB Single Channel Flash Drive for $16 after $10 Mir with free shipping.  I own the 8gb version of this drive and it is worth getting.  It is small, sleek, and is built very well.

HIS Hightech H465FS512P Radeon HD 4650 512MB for $39.99 after MiR at Newegg.  Shipping is free.

3 Pack of 6 FT HDMI Cables for $9 at MeritLine