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Hide the Undock Button in Windows XP in Five Steps

April 8th, 2009 6 Comments

If you have a Windows XP notebook, and love to use the Run menu item, chances are you’ve occasionally hit “E” instead of  “R” when you bring up your start menu.  The result? Windows ejects the PC from it’s dock and forces you to re-dock it before you can carry on with your work.  It’s [...]

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RAM Disks – Storing Files in Memory

March 21st, 2009 1 Comment

Back in ye olde days of DOS Microsoft included a utility with the system called RAMDRIVE.SYS.  This utility allowed you to carve off a few kilobytes of your system’s precious RAM to use as a pseudo hard drive that was highly effective for reading and writing large volumes of data to and from a drive [...]

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