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.

Along the side, you’ll find a checklist of options to scan for, such as missing shared DLLs and unused file extensions. Options are given to backup and restore the registry, just in case anything goes wrong. I compared the Digeus cleaner with CCleaner, a pretty well known application.

Registry Scan Times:

• Digeus Registry Cleaner- 2:04.94
  • 1197 problems
• CCleaner-7 Seconds
  • 63 problems

It seems like Digeus’s Registry Cleaner can find many more problems than CCleaner, but in turn it takes longer to complete.

The Good:

• In-depth search
• Deletes all invalid file types, extensions, obsolete software, and etc.
• Small program- 1.2 MB
• No Adware/Spyware bundled

The Bad:

• Costs $17.99 for unrestricted version
• Trial only has 5 entries per scan until nag screen

As you can see, my only complaint here is its price – for some, though, the larger number of problems that the  Digeus Registry Cleaner can find may make it worth the cost. So before you go and get a new computer to replace your bogged-down machine, be sure to try this exceptional software and hopefully it saves you some money, time, and effort.

Trial download available from CNET.

Product page here.

A judge recently ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, one of their flagship products. Microsoft is guilty of infringing i4i’s patent on XML software.

In May, Microsoft, was ordered to pay 200 million dollars.  Then on August 18, Microsoft was again ordered to pay an additional 40 million for willful infringement along with 37 million in prejudgment interest.

Microsoft is being given 2 months to stop selling their office software.  But I doubt Microsoft will let this all go down without a fight.

They will probably

• Appeal (obviously)
• Issue a patch and remove infringed code off new editions (which I think is much easier then stopping sales altogether)
• Settle for some ridiculously high fee that won’t be disclosed to the public
• Hire some more lawyers!

via cnet

Sorry for the picture quality, it was taken on my camera phone.

Anyways, these babies retail for about $70.00 bucks but I got them for around $42.00 thanks to  something called Bing Cashback!

Bing is Microsoft’s new search engine, and they’re basically paying you to use it!  This is a list of all the stores that qualify for Bing Cashback and the percentage that you will receive back when buying stuff from them.

In order to receive cashback, you need to make a Bing account. After that is done, go look around and see what you like, make sure you navigate to the store through this list.  That way Microsoft can track your purchases and give some $$$ back.

Keep in mind that it can take up to 60 days for Microsoft to give you your CB.

Payment Methods

• Paypal (recommend)
• Bank Deposit
• Check

As for my shoes, I got them on Eastbay.com.  Eastbay has a 50% CB rate, so go and buy stuff! (FYI-Maximum CB is $200 per order)

So I was clicking really fast through my friends FB photo album, and look what I found!

PS3 Slim!

• $300
• 120 GB HDD
• 32% smaller
• 36% lighter
• Definitely not a 100% sexier
• Comes out first week of September

You would think a new revamped, smaller, thinner PS3 would look sleeker? Maybe even have a little shinier?  It seems so.. fake.. and knocked off, sort of  like the things you find in China!  I recently tried to buy a broken one on eBay to fix, but I couldn’t get any at a decent price! Maybe this will bring down the prices on eBay!

Xbox 360

• 54.2% Failure Rate-That just sucks.

I actually bought a red ringed Xbox 360 from a friend and did the x-clamp mod. It worked perfectly until I played rainbow 6 and it red ringed again. Then I did the mod again, then it red ringed again.  I then took apart the case, let it run for 15, let the GPU burn in, and it worked again!  Then it stopped working.. again.. It is now sitting there until I attempt to revive it… Again  =(.   I will post pics of my adventures with my Xbox soon!

via Gizmodo and Gizmodo =)

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.

Don’t you hate it when it does that? Especially when you’re playing a game and it gets you killed. When you leave your computer on overnight to download a big file and it reboots on you.  Well, no more!

Go to Start->Run->gpedit.msc

Go to Local Computer Policy-> Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->Windows Update

Find “No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic upd…”->Right Click->Properties->Click Enables->Ok

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No more auto-restarts! This was tested on Windows XP SP3.

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

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