As seen from the previous posts, we’ve been churning out videos like crazy. The editing tool that lets us do this is Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD 9. At $44, I’ve found that it is the affordable AND intuitive alternative to: Windows Movie Maker, which is free but overly...
If you’ve ever had crashing issues, stuttering, low FPS, and/or general video card problems after installing a new driver, one of the causes may be left over files from the old driver. There are many long and detailed instructions for a perfect “clean install” on forums for those who...
Generally if we are taking some program off our PCs, we don’t give it much thought. Just run the uninstall that the program itself provided and that’s it. The problem is that these programs rarely remove all traces of themselves. Over time, these file fragments can cause issues and...
Been meaning to do this for a while (two months), but I have finally put up the photos from the recent (two month ago) build of my new (two month old) PC. This is not the first as I typically build one every two to three years. In that...
All PC troubleshooting is made easier with the right tools. These tools should be easy to use, easy to install, do as advertised and preferably be free. One tool that comes with Windows that I always felt was lacking was Task Manager. While it shows process memory consumption and...
It looks like the folks at Valve have something in the works for Team Fortress 2. While it had recently been announced that the sniper would be the next character to get an update, it was much more interesting to read what is being said in the Valve forums....
I can’t remember the last time I thought “Wow” for a screen saver. But in searching for dual monitor programs, I came across this page: reallyslick.com is a website by Terry Welsh who created OpenGL screen savers as a hobby. It looks like he hasn’t done any in years...
This is high on the PC geek scale, but something I find that many people who consider themselves computer geeks have never heard of. I’m going to be talking briefly about Alternate Data Streams(ADS). First off, let’s discuss what it is. ADS is an undocumented feature of the NTFS...
