Restore Chrome Bookmarks Bar

The problem with moving over to a different web browser is that when you change something, the option to change back isn’t always located where you’d expect. Take for example the other day when I accidentally lost my Google Chrome Bookmarks Bar. It was simply a matter of right-clicking on the toolbar and de-selecting “Always show the bookmarks bar” to lose it, but finding the option to turn it back on was not where I expected.

So, today I’m going to save everyone else the time and just point it out.

In Chrome, click on the wrench icon in the upper right-hand
corner.

Now, go to Tools, and the top option is to Always show bookmarks bar. Click it, and you’re all set. Alternately, you can also hit Ctrl+Shift+B to get it back.

If you have an external drive that is always plugged into your computer, did you know that with Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can enable write caching to speed up the performance significantly when writing to the disk? Well, you can! Let's learn more about it.
Write caching isn't enabled by default for external drives, because removable devices could lose data if you unplug them too quickly. So, be sure to take care when using this setting. To change this setting, just type Device Manager into the Start menu search box and hit Enter, or click on the Device Manager into the Start menu search box and hit Enter, or click on the Device Manager link.

Browse down to the external drive that you wish to enable write caching on, and double click it to open up the Properties screen. Or, you can right click and select Properties.

Now, just change the setting to Optimize for performance in Vista, or Better Performance in Windows 7, and click OK to continue. You'll have to reboot your computer for the setting to take effect. Once done, you can go on and enjoy all the additional speed!

Even with the best antivirus software, new drive-by viruses come along every day running suspicious files through ,Jotti's Malware Scan, a free website that scans with twenty databases.Got a file in email that was pronounced clean by Symantec and 19 of the 20 databases on Jotti's, but fortunately the 20th found the virus in it. A day later, 10 of the databases still thought it was clean. So there's (even more) safety in numbers

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Ive recently started using Advanced system care from IObit (started with smart Defrag and then paid the 13bucks to get the rest of the tools). One feature is to disable a lot of unnecessary windows and other programs running in the background (It was polite enuf to ask me if I wanted to disable BOINC, real media player and one other program I forget; so i disabled all but BOINC). Among the things it disabled were the widgets on my desktop windows update etc. 27 services on my machine total. I'm wondering if anyone has used this and seen any measurable benefit to BOINC. (It can also turn them back on again for when your actually at your desk using them quite easily).
Here's hoping that a free/cheap utility can save a few percent!