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Computer geek from the age of 7, which amounts to 30 years of computer experience. From the early days (when every computer company had their own OS) of DOS, Windows 1.0 through Seven...

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Excel: Duplicate and Copy Cell content using AutoFill

Posted by Thomas On January - 12 - 2011ADD COMMENTS

ms excel logo Excel: Duplicate and Copy Cell content using AutoFill This time I’m going to show you how to quickly copy or duplicate cell content using a drag’n’drop-feature. This feature allows you to drag content from one cell to another, filling in values, series or copying formulas.

Click-Drag’n’Drop, or AutoFill

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Purge Stalled Print Jobs [Quick Tip]

Posted by Thomas On January - 11 - 20112 COMMENTS

Print pile Purge Stalled Print Jobs [Quick Tip] Don’t you just hate it when your printer messes up? I most certainly do. Every once in a while, a document gets stuck in the spooler system and no documents will print. And if you don’t catch it right away you end up with a stack of documents piling up in your print queue.

You may of course unplug the printer, cut power and pray that this will let you to delete the stuck file from the queue. However, Sometimes even that won’t do you any good. What then? Do you reboot the computer?

Well, There might just be one more thing to try, first…

Purge Stalled Print Jobs … manually

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Speed Up your Computer using Striped Volumes [How-To]

Posted by Thomas On January - 7 - 20111 COMMENT

blue computer speed Speed Up your Computer using Striped Volumes [How To] If you are looking for a way to speed up your computers read and write speed and you like taking chances, then Striped Volumes are the way to go.

A striped volume uses the free space on more than one physical hard disk to create a bigger volume. Unlike a spanned volume, a striped volume writes across all volumes in the stripe in small blocks, distributing the load across the disks in the volume.

How does it work ?

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Awesome Duplicate Photofinder Helps You Organize Your Photos

Posted by Thomas On January - 5 - 20113 COMMENTS

Windows Guides’ Rating	Compatible with	System
4 out of 5

duplicate photos Awesome Duplicate Photofinder Helps You Organize Your Photos Awesome Duplicate Photofinder is a great freeware program designed to help you find those duplicate stored photos on your hard-drive.

But Awesome Duplicate Photofinder (say that fast five times in a row) does more. It even help you look for similar looking photos, using a comparison routine you would expect to find in an expensive commercial solution.

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Span Volumes, Make Windows Think Two Drives are One

Posted by Thomas On January - 1 - 20116 COMMENTS

DIY SSD Span Volumes, Make Windows Think Two Drives are One Do you have several physical hard-drives on your computer, but would like to have them collaborating as one? This can be useful for smaller SSD-drives or similar.

A quick Note before we continue!
Spanned volumes are not RAID volumes and they are not fault tolerant. If one of the disks in the volume should fail, you lose the data on both disks. That being said, let’s continue…

Preparations

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[Ended] Competition Reminder! Win a Copy of Jv16 PowerTools 2010

Posted by Thomas On December - 25 - 20103 COMMENTS

Windows Guides’ Rating	Compatible with	System
5 out of 5	[ratings id=8250]

Here’s a little reminder on the JV16 PowerTools Giveaway Contest which runs through Sunday If you didn’t see the review on JV16 PowerTools 2010 you might want to do so now. Jv16 PowerTools is the ultimate Windows optimization and tune-up utility suite, and by far the best tool I have every put to the test.

The Competition is open to everyone !

The competition has now ended.

Winners will receive notification by email.
Thank you to all contributors.