The IP (Internet Protocol, see The IP: The housenumber of your Computer for more information) address is a unique device identifier. Every website on the Internet has an IP address associated with it, as does every computer that is used to connect to the Internet. Computer users rarely come in contact with IP addresses, unless [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

When I want to find out who owns a domain name, I do a whois on one of the whois websites on the Internet. The domain look-up usually returns the domain owner, administrator, addresses and contact information. Problem is, that many whois sites only support specific regions, and that you may have to switch to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Software may hang or freeze occasionally on a system. Sometimes it is hard to tell why it hangs, while it is more or less obvious at other times. Say you are currently rendering a video which taxes your cpu, memory and hard drive. If you now launch other applications on the system, it may happen [...]

Categories: Software, troubleshooting, Windows

Computer users who want to access a list of recent Firefox downloads need to open the web browser to access that list providing that the download records are stored and not deleted on exit or user request. Downloads are listed under Tools > Downloads or by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-j. Firefox Download View is [...]

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Drive letters in Windows; The operating system assigns a drive letter when the hardware is first connected to the system. That drive letter is usually kept until the drive gets disconnected again. DriveLetterView is a new Nirsoft application that displays drive letters from all devices including local hard drives, remote network drives, USB drives, flash [...]

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Computer users have several methods at their disposal to save online videos. Browser add-ons like the Firefox add-on Download Helper interact directly with the website the video is hosted on to provide users with download links on support sites. That’s a direct approach usually which means that it is necessary to start viewing a video [...]

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Passwords are usually concealed or hidden behind bullets or asterisks on computer systems. This is done largely to prevent access to those passwords by other users. These hidden passwords do however cause problems for the owner of the password as well. When I worked in tech support I had numerous cases where users received a [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

One of the very first posts here at Ghacks was a basic review of Currports. That was in 2005 and a lot has changed since then. Nir Sofer has constantly updated the application, which is now offered as a portable 32-bit and 64-bit program. Currport lists Internet connections of all applications and services on the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The Windows operating system offers build in tools like the Event Viewer but also third party software to analyse application crashes. One program that can be used for the task is AppCrashView developed by Nirsoft. AppCrashView is a portable software program for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 that displays a list of [...]

Categories: Software, Windows