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XP Repair Pro 2007 Review

XP Repair Pro is a Windows registry scanner, cleaner, repair, editor and optimizer tool that I’ve been using for about a year and a half. I’ve written about it a few times and have a review of XP Repair Pro 2006 elsewhere on my Terry’s Computer Tips site.
Product: XP Repair Pro 2007
Class: Utility — Windows [...]

Speeding Up Windows XP

Remember back when you got your latest computer? It seemed so fast, so much faster than your previous computer. Now, if it doesn’t seem to drag, it just doesn’t seem as peppy as it used to…
Part of that effect is our memory — not the computer’s memory but the memories stored between our ears. We [...]

Cleaning Up the Start Menu

Have you ever noticed that every program wants to install itself into the Start Menu in its very own line?
The Start Menu quickly balloons as each game adds its own block, each utility adds each own section, each graphics program, each communications program, etc. all with their very own listing under “All Programs”…
If you’ve [...]

Compacting Email Folders

There is a little trick to the way POP3 email program like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird store the email messages you receive. A “deleted message” is not really deleted! Did you know that?
All your email program does is to rewrite a few characters in the file in order to tell itself that [...]

When I delete an email, it’s gone — right?

There is a little trick to the way POP3 email programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird store the email messages you receive. A “deleted message” is not really deleted! Did you know that?
Outlook and Outlook Express store all the emails in one huge file, even if you have your emails split between [...]