There is no way to hide or protect applications in the Windows operating system so that users with local access to the operating system cannot see and access them. While some applications offer password protection to prevent unauthorized access, it is sill possible to see that the program is running, for instance by checking the [...]

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The software collection at Nirsoft is held in very high regard by the majority of Windows users. Nir Sofer’s latest program is NetworkTrafficView, a network traffic monitoring software that captures network packages that display statistics and information about a computer’s network traffic in its interface. The network software works best with either the freely available [...]

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It just takes a quick download, a few steps and one USB flash drive to run Google Chrome with your personal extensions and settings on any Windows computer. This article will demonstrate how to setup portable Google Chrome on a flash drive and take it to any PC to use. The first step is to [...]

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The Windows operating system offers extensive options to set a custom wallpaper or custom color as a solid background color. The capabilities have been expanded in Windows 7, for instance with abilities to rotate wallpapers automatically. The option to select a single color for the background has been available for a long time. Users can [...]

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If you have a large collection of pictures, photos and images on your computer, chance is that some of them are broken or defective. This can be due to transfer errors or storage device issues among other things. While most users won’t mind having a few broken images sitting on their hard drive, others may [...]

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I have set my phone to be silent all the time, as I find it highly annoying when it goes off in public. I experienced some embarrassing situations in the past where it would do that in the supermarket or a crowded location. Others do not seem to think the same way, as I run [...]

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Windows Explorer is optimized for single-folder operations. Here you can sort the files by file extension, name or date for instance. It becomes problematic if you want to do that for a folder and all of its subfolders. While you might be able to use the search for a workaround that works so-so, it is [...]

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If you’d have to analyze a normal work day on your computer, how would it look like? What are the common applications that you open? Which website do you spend the most time on? It can be quite difficulty to calculate those numbers manually, and it is likely that you may be way off. That’s [...]

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Sometimes you may want to protect some files or maybe even just one document from third party access. While you could use an encryption software like TrueCrypt to create a container to put those files into, you sometimes may prefer an easier solution. MultiObfuscator is a free program for Windows that uses multiple security layers [...]

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