I spend lots of time in front of my computer and that time expands from beginning of my work day to the majority of my free and personal time between family responsibilities and tasks. I love breakfast but I rarely ever sit down, eat breakfast and read the paper. That’s so old school right? I do somewhat of the equivalent though with my browser at every startup.

I have a collection of web pages that open in tabs automatically when I start my browser each session. This gives me a variety of launch tasks to take advantage of as I …read more

A number of years ago PC Magazine started providing collections of downloaded files, tools and applications to users to help them manage their systems. These programs used to just be available on the CD-ROM’s that you’d get when you purchased an issue of their magazine, or they’d send it to you when you paid for a subscription.

Now those applications have become worthy software components of their own. One of those programs that have been developed and tweaked over the years into a robust and very useful application for many users is Startup Cop 4, which is now celebrating it’s …read more

One of my personal computing pet peeves is to have a cluttered and ridiculously overloaded system tray of applications and processes that are running at boot-up. For one thing, having all kinds of unnecessary processes running at start-up on the chance that you might use seems like a waste of resources to me.
If you’re running Windows XP Professional there’s a really easy way to configure at the operating system level what applications have set themselves up to run on startup and to disable them.
Just follow these steps:

Go to Start > Run
Type in “msconfig” in the window (minus the quotes) and …read more

If you’ve been a Windows user for very long, I’m sure you’ve had those times where you’ve looked at your running processes and wondered just what the heck is csrss.exe is.
Have no fear, there’s a website that will tell you all the information you need to know about those programs running processes under the guise of weird executable names.
SysInfo.org
Oh, and in case your were wondering:
Description:
csrss.exe is the main executable for the Microsoft Client/Server Runtime Server Subsystem. This process manages most graphical commands in Windows. This program is important for the stable and secure running of your computer and should not …read more