FavBackup allowed Windows users to backup web browser specific settings. The program was easy to use and supported most major web browsers. Some things were not perfect like missing support for custom or multiple user profiles, portable browser support or the disk and computer memory usage during backup jobs. The developer of FavBackup has recently [...]
Use Process Monitor To Optimize The Windows Boot Process
There are not a lot of tools available for the Windows operating system that measure and optimize the Windows boot process. The mysterious Microsoft Bootvis, which was later retracted by Microsoft, or Boot Timer, a program that can only measure the boot speed, are just two programs to measure the boot speed. Many tips exist [...]
Create Virtual Images Of Physical Drives With Disk2vhd
Tech savvy Windows users love Sysinternals applications. That’s a given fact and you barely stumble upon someone who has not at least one or two of the software programs created by Sysinternals in their bag of tools that they carry always with them. Disk2vhd is the latest software program released by Microsoft’s Sysinternals division. It [...]
Hide Applications In Windows
Some applications display an interface, program window or command line window if they are executed even though this is not needed for the program execution. It is usually possible to minimize the application window to the Windows system tray after it appeared on the computer screen but not before that is happening.
Hide App has [...]
Matt’s System Helper Outer
Matt’s System Helper Outer has been developed to make it a tad easier to issue all those console commands in Windows. The program is basically a graphical user interface for several of the most common commands that users issue on the command line. The portable software program uses a basic interface that seems a bit [...]
Preferred Filter Tweaker for Windows 7
Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 7 uses Direct Show filters to decode several audio and video formats. Direct Show is being used by several multimedia applications like Windows Media Player or Media Center. It can also be used in third party tools like MPlayer. Users who prefer to use alternative codecs for decoding these audio [...]
Secure Internet Explorer With IEController
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser is tightly integrated into the Windows operating system. This makes it an important software program even if the users of the system do not use it as their main web browser. The reason for this is that several other programs make use the Internet Explorer rendering engine. It is therefor [...]
