Brown Thoughts

Reinstalling software is usually painless, that is until you discover that you can’t find the CD key. This happens quite often and you’re faced with two options, buy another license or hope that you find/remember where it is.
A good way of making sure that doesn’t happen to you, is to make a list of all […]

For those of you who are using Windows Vista and wish they could have a Mac instead, I’ve got slightly good news. Why slightly? You can change how Vista looks but as for the Mac itself, you’ll need to get one heh.
Vista OS X will transform any 32-bit edition of Windows Vista into OS X […]

There are various reasons why people don’t try out Linux. The most common reason, is that they can’t bring themselves to remove the familiar Windows system and replace it with a totally new environment. While there are ways to boot into a Linux environment without uninstalling Windows, most people either don’t have the patience or […]

This should sound familiar to most of you. You want to copy certain files on your hard drive and move them to a different folder. First, you copy files from one folder and paste it in another. Then you copy more files from a different folder and paste it in your target folder. If you’re […]

This should sound familiar to anyone who uses a computer regularly. You want to delete a file or folder but can’t because Windows says the file is being used by another program.
Does this message look familiar?

Other variations of this error include:

Cannot delete file: Access is denied
There has been a sharing violation.
The source […]

☺ - That’s not an image, it’s actually one of the alt codes on your keyboard. Some of you probably know a few by heart like the ñ or the Ω. If you’ve ever wanted to know what the other alt codes are, here’s a list of alt codes from 1 - 255.
To use […]

If you’re a Firefox user, you probably use its feature for storing passwords so you don’t have to keep typing in your login information for your most visited sites. While the feature is a good one, it lacks the option of exporting your stored passwords should you want to back it up.
Password Exporter is a […]

By default, Windows Explorer goes to your “My Documents” folder every time you open it. If you’re like me, you want to be able to set to it to open a different folder.
Here’s a quick and easy way to change the default folder that Windows Explorer opens.
Click on the ‘Start’ button. Go to Programs. Go […]