Some people still believe women are driving safe…..

Who told you tennis is not an extreme sport?

After the successful funny picture of the day post, I thought it would be cool to post another funny picture. Let me know what you think of this alcohol test.

Today I’ve stumbled upon a very cool gadget for iGoogle, that gives you the ability to customize your google home page. The gadget is called Custom iGoogle Skin. There are many skins to choose from and you can even create your own.

Bellow is a screenshot from my new iGoogle (click for a larger image):

Some times when surfing the web I have to shut down the pc, or I want to restart Firefox because of a memory leak, but yet I can’t do that because there are many open tabs with sites that I have to check. I know this sounds like a silly problem but if you face it, it can be a pain in the ***.

Anyway if you are annoyed by this situation as I am, here is a fast solution :

1. Open the task manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del) and go to the processes tab.
2. Find the firefox process (firefox.exe) and simple kill it (click on the firefox.exe and then the button “End Process”)
3. You are done. Next time you will open Firefox it will ask you to keep or not to keep the previous session.

I would really like to know what those cops were thinking at this moment

In my Windows XP pc I usually have some files that can’t be deleted. I am not sure where this problem is coming from, but it is very annoying when you can’t delete a file for no reason. Here is a way to solve this:

Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. Close all open programs

Click Start => Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE

Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe. Leave Task Manager open

Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the undeletable file is located in.

At the command prompt type “DEL <filename>” where <filename> is the file you wish to delete

Go back to Task Manager, click File => New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE

Close Task Manager

Ok no problem again with these awful undeletable files. I am not sure if this is working with Windows Vista too, so please comment if you know.

Check this funny interview, including some truth about Darth Vader

This one is the best tweak for windows XP I ever found, and it works very well. With this tweak we will force windows to load kernel and drivers in memory.

Here is what you have to do :

1) Open the regedit tool (Start -> Run -> regedit.exe )

2) Use the navigation in the left and go to HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

3) Double click the DisablePagingExecutive attribute, and put 1 in the decimal value field
This will make the drivers and the XP kernel run in memory.

4) Double click the LargeSystemCache attribute, and put 1 in the decimal value field
This will improve performance of the kernel

5) Double click the IOPageLockLimit attribute. On some later versions of windows XP that doesn’t exists, so if this is the case you’re done. Otherwise you have to put to the hex value : 4000 for pcs with 128 mb ram, 10000 for 256 mb ram and if you have more put 40000. This value specifies how many bytes can be used for I/O operations in your system.

That’s it, enjoy your faster pc