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1. Click Start Button and choose Run
2. Type in "regedit"
3. Click on HKEY_CURRENT_USER
4. Click Software
5. Click Microsoft
6. Click Internet Explorer
7. Click Main
8. Click Edit drop down
9. Choose New
10 Choose String Value
11 Name it "Window Title"
12 Double Click it after created
13 In Value data type in whatever you want the Internet Explorer bar to have
at the top instead of "Microsoft Internet Explorer"

I changed mine to "Tech-Weekly's Browser Window". Also below is a quick video
show how to do this

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Today's site of the day is Elfyourself.com, with everyone looking for an excuse to not work and who has a few pictures of family and friends and a few minutes to waste. And who doesn't have a few minutes to waste the day before Thanksgiving at work.

I was able to make a nice little elf setup of my family in just about 5 minutes. It is really cute and fun to try. What you wind up making is up to 4 elves dancing with a face of your choice uploaded and placed on them. It is really fun.

  So what are you waiting for go "Elf Yourself"

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Well with the holiday weekend just about to start I thought for the "Download of the Day" I would list a handy program that some folks may find useful. Have you ever had this happen when visiting family for the holidays? You just finished a great meal and your ready to relax on the couch when (insert relative of choice) comes over and blocks the tv and starts talking about how their computer is not running well at all. It is either not working at all or running so slow that it probably is completely infected with all manner of spam and malware.

As you listen it becomes obvious that not only has this been the case for a while but you have basically been ambushed. They knew you were going to be there for the holiday meal so they did not bother to try to get it fixed till then.

Now don't get me wrong. I love working on computers. Mine, yours and whoevers. But to make your diagnosis work a little quicker you might want to bring this little program along with you. Startup Inspector works great and is not nearly as picky about doing what you want with potentially harmful startup programs.

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Dell matches the economy class XO and Asus Eee laptops by permanently chopping its $700 Vostro 1000 to $399. It's got superior specs to both: 15.4-inch screen, 1.7 GHz dual-core Athlon64 X2, 1GB RAM, 256MB integrated ATI gfx card, 8x DVD burner and 802.11g Wi-Fi card, running XP Home. The super-cheap laptop market's getting nicely competitive. [Dell via Valleywag]

Well it looks like the Asus Eee Pc and the One Laptop Per Child XO-1 are starting to stir up some real commercial competition. Its a shame that it takes someone making an affordable alternative in order for prices to come down on something. Though I am sure sagging pre-holiday sales had something to do with it.

So is it unreasonable to think that soon there will be a $50 laptop? It might be rather limited and look a little toy like but then some of the ones available now are already that. I believe if you were to combine a $50 laptop with a Ubuntu operating system now that would be a real winner. Stay tuned Wedsday when we look one final time at the MIT inspired (OLPC) One Laptop Per Child plan and the machine that will help it become a reality.

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