The feature to display taskbar thumbnails in the Windows 7 operating system was recently added to Chromium and later on to Google Chrome. The taskbar thumbnails were enabled by default with no option to disable them in the web browser. Some users found a way to disable the thumbnail previews by running the Google Chrome [...]
How To Delete And Add Registry Keys From The Command Line
There are a few possible scenarios where a Windows user might have to or want to use the command line instead of the regedit tool to delete and add keys in the Windows Registry. It can be that a virus or other malicious software has limited access to the Registry so that regedit cannot be [...]
Blank Start Menu In Windows 7
The Windows 7 start menu has been designed by Microsoft to display recently used programs on the first page and all installed programs that have added a start menu entry on the second page. The second page is displayed after the user clicks on the All Programs link there. When a Windows user decides to [...]
Windows Startup Manager What In Startup
Nothing beats Autoruns when it comes to making a thorough analysis of the startup programs and files that are loaded during Windows startup. But Autoruns can be intimidating to some users because of its functionality and features. What In Startup is a portable Windows startup manager that has been created by Nirsoft. The software program [...]
Nagios: Enable external commands
Here we are again, back witho ur old friend Nagios. If you’ve been following you know I have covered quite a bit of ground with this outstanding network monitoring tool (check all Ghacks Nagios articles). There is a reason for this, Nagios is an incredible tool. But for many of you, you might have come [...]
Record Internet Radio Streams With Stream Harvester
We have covered quite a few applications that can be used to record Internet radio streams like our favorite software for the job Streamripper but also others like Phonostar, XMPlay or Screamer Radio. Stream Harvester is a new program that has been released by the developer in an early stage of development. The program currently [...]
Block Sleep And Hybrid-Sleep Mode In Windows 7 And Vista
Standby and Hibernate were two functions in pre-Vista operating systems that would save the current PC state either into computer memory or on the hard drive before shutting down most of the computer to save energy. Microsoft has changed those states in Windows Vista and kept them this way in Windows 7. The new power [...]
Google Chrome Bookmarks Manager
Google Chrome, like any other web browser, offers an option to save websites as bookmarks to open them again at a later point in time. Bookmarks are placed in the bookmarks manager automatically and a toolbar can be displayed to access them directly from there without having to open the manager first. The bookmarks toolbar [...]
Why You Should Use Userscripts And Not Extensions When Possible
If you want to add functionality to your web browser you usually have the option to either installation extensions – or add-ons and plugins as some browsers call them – or userscripts. Extensions are small programs that are loaded on the start of the web browser while userscripts only become active on the pages they [...]