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DirectX 10 Vs DirectX 9 - A Critical Analysis

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Videogames have brought about a revolution in the field of entertainment. They bring instant excitement, suspense, thrill and the exhilaration of getting under the skin of the protagonist of the story in the game.
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Google to Rival Microsoft With Operating System

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Microsoft have been dominating the operating system market since the PC was first released. The company creator Bill Gates has been at the edge of cutting technology right from the forefront. Nowadays Microsoft is the only operating system that is used on PCs, almost every computer comes pre bundled with the whole Microsoft package.
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Windows Vista vs. Windows XP

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Despite encountering its fair share of naysayers, technological laggards and operational glitches, Windows Vista has been slowly but surely proving that it is here to stay. Before making the leap away from Windows XP, the previous and much lauded Microsoft operating system, it is important to assess the features, security and overall user experience provided by Windows Vista, in order to determine whether your computing needs make the switch necessary.
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How To Use Mac-keyboard Shortcuts?

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Here is the list of the most important shortcuts to know:
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Features To Look For in a Windows Registry Cleaner Software

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

One of the most valuable check one must make is that of windows registry. The windows registry have stored in it informations about your computers configuration. It can be termed as a database containing all informations about your computer. These informations include the kind of hardware your machine is attached to or whatever hardware components are inside your personal computer. The settings of your operating system as well as the customized settings you made while installing the operating system also comes under these informations. Whatever changes the user makes in these settings also gets stored as keys inside the registry. From the time you switch on till the time you shut your personal computer down these settings are read and modified by the computer.
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Clean My PC Registry On My Own - Is It Smart ?

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

The answer to this question depends on how you clean it. Is it smart to clean it by hand? No. It is smart to clean it using a registry leaning program? Yes. This article will explain why.
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DLL Errors And The Windows Registry

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

DLL files are integral to Microsoft operating systems. DLL expands to Dynamic Link Libraries. References to DLL files that need to be loaded for Microsoft operating system to work smoothly are contained in the Windows Registry. If a DLL files goes missing or is corrupted, the Windows operating system can fail to load or throw up error messages. Windows registry entries will have to be corrected to ensure that the references are correct or the DLL files will have to be copied back into the referenced location if they have gone missing.
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How To Use Windows Shortcuts?

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Here is the list of the most important ones:
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What Will You Be Getting This Christmas? Windows 7 Please

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

When Microsoft released Windows Vista in 2007 a huge amount of people started criticising the operating system itself. Most of this was due to the amount of memory usage a computer needed to run the system, and even with around 2 GB of RAM it was still struggling to cope. But sales of Vista still continued and within the first month Microsoft had shifted around 20 million copies.
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How To Fix Corrupt Registry Entries?

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

What are corrupt registry entries? These are keys and values that have become garbled or associated with programs other than the ones they should be referring to.
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