The new Nirsoft application Router Pass View may help computer users in the recovery of router passwords. Many modern routers have an option to backup the configuration of the router into a file so that the settings can be restored at a later time. These router configuration backups often contain important data like the login [...]

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The Windows operating system stores file attribute and file time information for each file on connected storage devices. File attributes are for instance read-only or hidden flags that can have an impact on file operations. The dates and times a file was created, modified and accessed are also stored in Windows although they do not [...]

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Microsoft Outlook automatically displays a list of contacts and email addresses based on the first characters that are typed in by the Outlook user. This autocomplete feature can be used to quickly select a contact without having to enter the complete contact information manually. The autocomplete list in Outlook is populated automatically whenever new information [...]

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Windows maintains a list of programs that have been executed on the operating system in the Windows Registry. This Windows program history contains detailed information about the programs that have been launched by the active Windows user. The feature has been available since for a long time and Microsoft has continued to implement it in [...]

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We have shown in a recent tutorial how Windows users can move large applications, files and folders to another hard drive without breaking anything in the progress. Think of large games like Dragon Age and Steam games or applications like Nero, Microsoft Office or Adobe Photoshop. The tutorial was also handy for users who were [...]

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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 [...]

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The standard way of displaying computer network routing tables is to use the command line tool route.exe in Windows. The route.exe print command for instance displays all active IPv4 and IPv6 routes on the computer network. NetRouteView is basically a graphical user interface of the command sans the IPv6 information which are currently not supported [...]

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The Windows operating system, or more precisely the Windows Indexing Service and Windows Desktop Search, use so called iFilters to not only index the names of files on storage devices but also their contents. Several iFilters come preinstalled with the operating system. Windows 7 for instance supports mime, html, document, plain text and binary handlers [...]

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Many applications that get installed in the Windows operating system add entries to the context menu of Windows Explorer. One of those menus that are often modified is the New menu which can be used to create new files in Windows Explorer. Some of those options are added by the Windows operating system during installation [...]

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