Windows Live Messenger normally starts automatically when you first start Windows 7, if you don’t wish to use Live Messenger you can disable it. One of the benefits of disabling Messenger is that it can speed up your Windows boot time.
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Do you find it annoying how Windows automatically opens a submenu if you linger a little too long with your mouse in the Start Menu. Here’s how to switch this off.
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Windows Transparency does look very pretty, but if your using magnification software, the blurred image of the window underneath your current window can be distracting. Here’s how to turn off this ‘feature’.
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This is Charlie, he’s a cheeky 10 year old West Highland White Terrier. This is our experience with our vets out of hours service.
Do you get frustrated at poorly designed, inaccessible websites? Yes, well fix the web may have a solution!
How many times have you struggled to read an article on a website, because of all the clutter around it. Or maybe the site uses a small font you can’t resize or a horrible colour scheme.
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Everyone knows that spammers are low lifes, but now they’ve sunk to a new low, trying to make money out of the Haiti Earthquake! If you want to donate, do so via the Disasters Emergency Committee’s website at www.dec.org.uk, Continue reading ‘Spammers try to make money out of Haiti Earthquake’ »
In many Windows applications you can undo your last action, this can be done by pressing the undo button on the toolbar, or by using the keyboard:-
If you find it tiring, or difficult to read long passages of text from your computer screen then you may like to try Natural Reader.
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