Use the Resource Monitor program in Windows to see which programs are eating up your bandwidth. Hit Ctrl+Alt+Esc to open up the Task Manager, then click the Resource Monitor button. You can view every application that is using your network and it even shows how much bandwidth on a per application level.
Disabling Aero in Windows 7 can help improbe performance of your computer, especially if you play 3D intensive games such as Half Life 2, COD4, or even World of Warcraft. Windows Aero uses your video card to produce the “cool” and “gadgetized” effects you see through out the operating system.
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Today I went out and purchased Windows 7 Home Premium. After reading the differences between Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate I determined that all I really need was the Home Premium edition. The major difference between all three was the ability to run Microsoft Virtual PC with Windows XP allowing users to run [...]
Adding a simple ListBox widget in your GTK application is easier than you think. This tutorial will show you how to create ListBox-like functionality in GTK using Glade3. GTK uses the TreeView control as their do-all list control. You can create simple lists, tree-like lists and all sorts of various list views. What is really [...]
Read More »Today I whipped up a simple GTK application using the Anjuta IDE, Glade 3, and the new GtkBuilder system. As some of you know, Glade 3 and GTK changed things up. First Glade stopped using generated code which required you to use libglade. Now the GTK developers created their own interface interpretor called GtkBuilder. [...]
Read More »This code will show you how to search for Windows Services. The ServiceController class handles almost everything service related. You can also check if services are running by checking the service.Status property and you can search for installed services using the sample code below. The services we are talking about are the services that run [...]
Read More »Visual Basic for Linux is here, sort of. In my search for the perfect RAD environment for Linux I came across a project called Gambas. Gambas is a Visual Basic like development environment for Linux which is very much like Microsoft’s drag and drop Visual Basic but it is not a clone. For an Open [...]
Read More »This code snippet will let you force a background color into a PNG file with C#. When working with PNG files in Visual Studio sometimes you’ll run into situations where the background of a PNG shows up as grey or even blue. This is because of the PNG files transparency and Windows can sometimes [...]
Read More »The following code shows you how to build a UDP server in C# using the UUdpClient class for the networking and BackgroundWorker class for reporting data back to the application. This particular UDP server class is designed to be used with a Windows Forms or GUI. When using the UDP server you pass a BackgroundWorker [...]
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