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Category Archives: Tips

Use DiskPart to remove GPT partitions

April 17, 2010by Matthew Skelton (@matthewpskelton) 2 Comments

The standard Windows XP GUI tools will not allow you to modify a disk which uses the GUID parition table (GPT) instead of the standard MBR. This is a particular […]

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Software, Tips

Improving broadband speed with BT

October 21, 2009by Matthew Skelton (@matthewpskelton) Leave a comment

If you are not one of the lucky ones to have received a recent cost-free upgrade from BT to 20MBit/s ADSL, and your broadband speed is less than good, here […]

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Performance, Testing, Tips

How to tile groups of windows in Windows

October 8, 2009by Matthew Skelton (@matthewpskelton) Leave a comment

A little-known trick in Windows for arranging desktop windows quickly is to hold down CTRL, select items in the task bar, then right-click: you can cascade, tile, minimze or close […]

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Send Large Files (UK Version)

September 30, 2009by Matthew Skelton (@matthewpskelton) 1 Comment

With FTP a bit old-skool (and insecure), and all the firewall problems with FTPS and its variants, online web-based file sharing tools have sprung up over the last few years. […]

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Formatting an external drive with FAT32 under Windows

August 11, 2009by Matthew Skelton (@matthewpskelton) Leave a comment

The GUI in Windows XP later OS’s allows only NTFS as the format type for external drives; not too handy when you want to transfer files both ways between a […]

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