Windows Registry News Dec 29 2009 

You Don't Need to Regularly Reinstall Windows; Here's Why [Windows]

One of the most persistent myths about Windows is that you need to reinstall the operating system regularly to keep it running at top performance. Let's take a look at the real problem and how to fix...

Lifehacker:

http://lifehacker.com/5435523/you-dont-need-to-regularly-reinstall-windows-heres-why

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News in brief

Here are a selection of brief news items from this week

West Salem Coulee News:

http://couleenews.com/articles/2009/12/27/news/08briefs.txt

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Maintain your GNOME registry with gconf-editor

Ghacks: "The Windows operating system is not the only operating system with a registry. And I do realize that many of you cringed when you read the words

Linux Today:

 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-12-23-001-35-OS-GN

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Double clicking e-mail hyperlinks is fruitless

Q. Until recently, I was able to double-click on hyperlinks contained in e-mails and be connected to the Web page without having to open a browser and copy the Web address into it.

South Bend Tribune:

http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20091228/Biz/912289987/-1/XML

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