Stop Update Windows Reminders

While one does want to have Windows XP to do updates, sometimes you get annoying reminders every 5 minutes or so. To get rid of the notices you have two options.

1. Control Panel – Admin. Tools – Services
Right click on Automatic Updates and change to stop.
You can then reboot when you want.

2. Start – Run – Type in gpedit.msc and then then navigate to Windows Update.
Computer Configuration -Admin. Templates-Windows Components-Windows Update.
You then can change many of the option to control the Auto Updates Function.

Yahoo Email as Default

One of the aggravating things in Windows is that when you click on an email web link, by default it opens either Outlook or Outlook Express. To change that behavior to Yahoo Mail follow this procedure.
In Yahoo Mail click on Options and then choose “Set Y! Mail as default webmail.”
The next time you click on an email link, another popup box will open and you will again have to choose Yahoo Mail as your default. That’s all there is to it.

Cheap Cables

Before spending $130.00 for a four foot cable at Best Buy, here are a few alternatives.

Monoprice.com – $4.03
BlueJeans.com – $4.30
Cyberguys.com – $9.59

Firefox Popup Blocker Limits

If you want more than 20 exceptions to your Firefox popup blocker, then you need to make some changes. Type in about:config in the explorer bar and search for dom.popup_maximum. Then doubleclick on it and change the setting from 20 to whatever you’d like.