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Tune Windows to use your SSD more effectively

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:00:45 +0000

I saw a post recently on social media where someone was offering a free tool for optimizing Windows’ behavior with SSDs. It turns out it’s just a graphical front-end for a tool Windows already comes with called fsutil. But it’s

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Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:00:58 +0000

It was on August 24, 1995 that Windows 95 was released, amidst much anticipation. It was the most widely anticipated Windows release of all time, and the runner up really isn’t close. The idea of people lining up for blocks

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Run Windows 11 on unsupported hardware

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:00:56 +0000

Windows 10 is going end of life in mid October, less than six months from now. It’s not supported on PCs with less than an 8th-generation Core i series processor, which leaves a huge number of systems that run Windows

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Windows emergency restart

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:03:50 +0000

For about as long as I can remember, one of the most frequent complaints I’ve heard about Windows is that it doesn’t have an emergency restart or shutdown option, something equivalent to the Linux reboot command. It turns out Windows

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Change mouse direction on monitor

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:03:21 +0000

If you have more than one monitor, sometimes when you move your mouse to the edge of one screen, the mouse jumps to the monitor on the other side. Here’s how to change the mouse direction on your monitor when

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Notepad++ wrap text

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:03:20 +0000

Wrapping text is an essential feature in any text editor, but the feature may be hiding somewhere you aren’t looking for it. Here’s how to wrap text in Notepad++. Wrap text in Notepad++ is called word wrap Some text editors

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What does OLE stand for

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:03:40 +0000

Sometimes, when dealing with Windows programming or Windows applications, you will find the acronym OLE. But what does OLE stand for, and what does it do? And this blog post, I will explain OLE and why it was important and

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Notepad++ Go to line

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 13:03:32 +0000

Sometimes when you are editing a text file, you want to go to a specific line. Here’s how you go to a line in Notepad++, along with a few more go to tricks. Notepad++ has a menu option for go

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Replace carriage returns with commas in Notepad++

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:03:18 +0000

There are times when you need comma-separated lists but the data you have is separated by carriage returns instead. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to easily replace carriage returns with commas in Notepad++. Replace carriage returns or

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Fast Copy: Best and fastest copier for Windows?

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:03:55 +0000

People sure have strong feelings on their Windows copy utilities. Each of the command line utilities has their own strengths and weaknesses. But when it comes to copying with the GUI, a lot of times we just settle for Windows

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