I had relatives from out of the country a little while ago and before they left, one of them decided to leave his laptop behind for me. It’s an old model from the Toshiba Satellite 2410 series but I’m not complaining since I got it free.
The current configuration of the laptop is a little slow [...]
Ask the Readers: Someone Gave Me a Laptop. Now What?
Ask The Readers: Lock A DVD Drive In Windows Explorer
Windows will try to access the contents of a DVD that is in a DVD drive whenever the user is accessing Windows Explorer. This can become pretty annoying as the DVD drive is starting to spin up making some loud noises in the process.
The question now is if there is a way to lock [...]
Ask The Readers: Ghacks Redesign
Two days ago I asked if I should move some of the more advanced content to another blog. The result currently stands at 47% no voters to 41% yes voters with 12% saying they do not care. This reflects why the decision is that hard to make and why it takes so long to come [...]
Ask The Readers: Moving Articles To New Blog
Ghacks has seen some changes in the last two months with the addition of Jack and his Linux articles and Daniel’s web development series. A question that came up was if those two (or one of them) should be moved to a separate blog.
I still have not come to a decision and I thought it [...]
Ask The Readers: Recommended Security Software
We have been writing about great free software programs for more than three years now here at Ghacks and it is finally time to create a list of programs that we can recommend fully to anyone who is looking for a software with that functionality.
It would not be Ghacks if we would not ask you [...]
Ask The Readers: Best Tool To Split Firefox Tabs
While checking for new Google Chrome plugins I stumbled upon a plugin called Dual View which made it possible to display two websites in a split tab. This could actually be very handy for numerous reasons like writing articles with a reference site open on the screen which would eliminate the need to switch between [...]
Ask the Readers: Software to extract archives in multiple folders
Here is the problem that I’m currently facing. I sometimes download files from the Internet that are packed and placed into different folders of the same hard drive. I normally unpack them in each folder separately which takes quite a bit of manual work depending on the amount of folders with files that can be [...]
