If you open Windows Explorer in Windows 7 you see a left sidebar with the items Favorites, Libraries, Homegroup, Computer and Network. This sidebar is called the navigation pane. Each item in the navigation pane can contain links to folders, drives or other computer systems. The computer section will for instance list all partitions of [...]
Google Contact Information
Have you ever felt the need to contact Google only to find out that the company that is present everywhere on the Internet is hard to come by? It feels strange that such a big company has no public support hotline but only email and forum supports. Google support employees exist but their contact information [...]
Email @gmail.com Is No longer Verified By Google
Webmasters who log into Google Webmaster Tools might notice a new notification message on top that reads “email@gmail.com is no longer verified by Google. Please verify the address or select a different email address”. Email in this case is the email address of the user logging into the webmaster tools. The message itself is not [...]
Windows 7 Student Edition Key Not Valid Error
Dante just notified me about a problem that he encountered while trying to reinstall a Windows 7 Professional student version from Digital Rivers. The clean install went well until the product key of the operating system was requested. Windows 7 returned the message that the key that was entered was not valid even though it [...]
Desktop Drapes for GNOME
The latest “series” of articles for Linux here on Ghacks revolves around beautifying your desktop…specifically, desktop wallpaper. The first article was all about Managing wallpaper in GNOME. I wanted to continue that particular subject by introducing a simple little tool (that hasn’t actually been updated since 2008 – but still works like a champ) called [...]
Mass Shared Host Website Hack
Reports began to appear on the Internet two days ago that suggested that a new mass hack was underway. It was first assumed that the hack was only targeting WordPress blogs but it soon became known that other scripts were also affected by it. The common denominator of the hack was that all affected websites [...]
How To Backup System Restore Points
System Restore has been designed by Microsoft to provide the user with an option to restore the operating system into a previous state. Restore points are for instance created when software and new updates are installed, when a driver that is not digitally signed is installed or by user request. System Restore is only backing [...]
Version Control And Backup Software AutoVer
A single backup is sometimes not enough which is especially true for files that are changed a lot. Think of a programmer who saves dozens of revisions of the same file throughout the day or a writer who adds to a document so that it grows by the minute. Version control, or versioning, can be [...]
MSOCache Folder Information
You might have noticed a MSOCache folder in the root directory if you have selected the option to view hidden folders in Windows Explorer. Microsoft Office creates the folder during installation to cache files that are needed to install Microsoft Office. The folder is not needed to run Microsoft Office and can therefor be deleted [...]