You have several basic yet important utilities on your Windows operating system and it is not always easy to find them. You have to navigate the Control Panel or perhaps delve into the myriad lists of the Start Menu, entering just the right search terms. You could create desktop icons for all of these utilities [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Yesterday I sat down at my main desktop PC to do some work and, out of nowhere, error message after error message popped up informing me the hard drive was at 100% capacity which meant the operating system had no room to write to. This baffled me as I was 100% sure there should have [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tools, Tutorials Basic

Over the last ten+ years I have seen Linux configuration tools come and go. In the early days there was the tried-and-true, all-powerful linuxconf that many thought would remain the one and only Linux configuration tool until the end of times. Well, we were wrong and linuxconf has pretty much died off. Why did linuxconf [...]

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Black Coffee is probably the number one drink of system administrators throughout the world except maybe in the UK where they drink tea and in France where they drink wine (just joking guys). Black Coffee is a lightweight tool for system administrators to tweak settings in Windows. It was specifically designed to aid system administrators [...]

Categories: Software, Windows