No matter how big your hard drive is, it's never enough. For some people, this may not be the truth, but for me, unfortunately, it is. After learning how to disable hibernation and recover some disk space, now the time has come to take things one step further and remove old backups...

- Press the Start Orb, type "disk cleanup" in the search box, and then press Enter.


- In the window that opens, press the OK button or simply tap Enter.


- Open the More Options tab, as you can see below.


- In the System Restore and Shadow Copies section, press the Clean Up button.


- Choose to Delete old restore points.


Now, you have more free disk space. It was pretty easy, don't you think?

Usually, as soon as you get Vista setup, a file manager is one of the first things to install, but I must admit that I still end up using Explorer from time to time, and I know that lots of people use it and nothing else, so speeding it up is a very good idea...

Before we start, I must warn you - if you like to wait for ages to have all thumbnails displayed, browse through system folders and display hidden files and folders, although you don't really have to do that, then this article is not for you!

- Press the Start Orb, type "control folders" in the search box, and then press Enter.


- In the Folder Options window that opens, go to the View tab.


- Be sure to have the next options checked:

* Always show icons, never thumbnails
* Display the contents of system folders
* Show hidden files and folders


- Uncheck the following items:

* Hide extensions for known file types
* Use Sharing Wizard (Recommended)



- Notice the interesting bug in the screenshot above (OK, Cancel, OK button). Please let me know if it happened the same to you!

On the other hand, if you want to speed up your system's overall Vista performance, you can check this article. Good luck!

Every time a website resizes my browser, it's really annoying, and the reason I am usually a calm person is that I do my best to avoid stress. In this case, I need to change a setting in Firefox so that no website will be able to resize the browser ever again, and since I am sure other people have this problem, I decided to write a short article about how to do it...




- In Firefox, go to the Tools menu and choose Options.


- As soon as the Options window comes up, open the Content tab and press the Advanced button next to the Enable JavaScript line.


- Uncheck Move or resize existing windows, and then press OK to apply this change.


This should be everything. Oh... just one more thing! If you're a Mac user, then you should go to the Firefox menu and pick Preferences, instead of Tools>Options, for Windows and Linux users. Good luck!

As the title says, today I'll show you how to stop your mouse from waking up your computer, and the reason is that I just remembered I had a problem some years ago, when my computer wouldn't stay in sleep mode, because the mouse was too sensitive, and with each car passing on the street, my computer was taken out from its stand by or sleep state.



- Press the Start Orb, and then type "mouse" in the search box.


- Press the highlighted item above, and then open the Hardware tab in the window that opens.


- Left click on Properties.

- Select the Power Management tab, and there uncheck Allow this device to wake the computer.


- Press OK twice to open both windows open, and it's done!

I am sure this is going to be useful to somebody, and if you're one of those, please don't forget to drop a comment below! Thank you very much and good luck!

The ability to set a Master Password in Firefox allows you to leave other people use your computer and Mozilla's browser without any worries. When a site having a saved password is loaded, the Master Password is required. This way, you can save countless different passwords in Firefox, and remember only one, the Master Password. Today, I am going to show you how to enable and set this password...

- Open up Firefox, go to the Tools menu, and choose Options.


- Open the Security tab, and check Use a master password.


- In the window that opens, type the new password in the required fields.


- Press OK to apply changes.


As a hint, keep you eyes on the Password quality meter. The longer the green bar is, the better your password. My advice is to try using at least 3 different groups of letters and numbers in your password, and avoid names, places, or dates that have a meaning to you. To change the Master Password, simply go through the steps above once more...