One of the hardest things about formatting your hard drive and starting fresh is digging around for all of the drivers you need. You have your printer, camera, mouse, keyboard, and external drives all nicely installed, and trying to get everything back to normal after reinstalling Windows can be a huge pain. Maybe it isn’t as bad as you think with DriverMax…

I’m one of those people who doesn’t know what they would do if their Web browser didn’t have tabs. The problem is that I am a tabaholic and always seem to have 20+ Tabs open at any one given time.

There was a topic in our forum started a few months back regarding the User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista. The question asked whether there was a way to prevent the UAC prompt on applications you know are safe, and at the time the question was specifically directed towards Joost.

Your hard drive crashes, and you start to panic because you don’t have any backups of your important information! You quickly take it out of your computer, frantically trying to figure out what you should do. Is there a fix? How about putting it in the freezer?

I have really become accustomed to the transparent borders that Windows Vista Aero offers, and so have many other people I know using Vista.

Firefox is known for having its inline spell checker that underlines misspelled words as you type them. I truly believe that this feature in Firefox has helped the Internet as a whole become more readable by reducing the number of misspellings in even the simplest things, like comments.

While I have a tendency to use the Firefox browser most of the time, I do use Opera quite a bit as well. Opera is kind of my casual browser because it is slim, efficient, and yet powerful while Firefox offers the extensibility that I need when plowing my way through hundreds of different sites I visit everyday.

Being a Windows user for all my life I have come to realize that my Start Menu quickly becomes filled with applications that I frequently install. Windows Vista makes this much better by incorporating an easy-to-access search bar right in the Start Menu.