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Add Defragment and Disk Cleanup to the right-click menu in Windows Explorer

Add Defragment and Disk Cleanup to the right-click menu in Windows Explorer

If you do any consulting or if you are an administrator of enough personal computers, you know that having to go through the process of de-fragmenting or cleaning up a hard drive is a time-consuming ordeal. Yes, you can schedule these tasks so that they are handled automatically. But what if you need to do them manually? What if you have to do this to a number of machines? If that’s the case, we’re back to consuming your time. Anything…

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Common Windows issues you can fix with a registry hack

Common Windows issues you can fix with a registry hack

1: Disable AutoPlay I always find it a bit annoying to insert a CD and have Windows open Internet Explorer and display a bunch of information I don’t care about. I would rather just be able to navigate through the disc’s file system and go directly to what I need. Fortunately, it’s easy to create a registry setting that disables AutoPlay: Navigate through the Registry Editor to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer. Create a DWORD named NoDriveTypeAutoRun. Set the value to 000000FF. 2: Increase…

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