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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 20th, 2009
  • Comments: 55

Windows Explorer Alternative Snowbird

Snowbird is a lightweight Windows Explorer alternative that offers its users some extended functionality. The portable software program is compatible with Windows XP and above and comes with a tiny size of 468 Kilobytes unpacked.
The interface of the computer program has been divided into three areas. The header area containing menus and the breadcrumb navigation, [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 13th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Add Play With Windows Media Player In Windows Explorer

The latest installments of Windows Media Player add two context menu entries to some folders in Windows Explorer. The options that are added are “play with Windows Media Player” and “Add to Windows Media Player List”. Users who regularly work with Windows Media Player might want to add these context menu entries to all of [...]

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Categories: Tutorials Basic

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 26th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Windows Batch File Creation

Windows batch files seem to be a thing of the past for the majority of today’s users. Only some IT guys and those with the preserved knowledge on how to create them use batch files extensively. The majority of Windows users does not probably even know how to create batch files anymore. This is where [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Edit PDF Properties

Each pdf document contains metadata that lists the document title, document author, keyword, software the document has been created with or the date of the creation among other things. These information are usually generated automatically in the pdf editor that was used to create or modify the pdf document.
These pdf editors usually contain the means [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 28th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

File Extensions Identification

Every computer user will eventually encounter files that cannot be opened with the programs installed on the computer system. Experienced users might try to open those files in a basic text editor or perform a search on the Internet to find a program that can open files with those extensions.
Another possibility is the Open With [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 12

Add Names To DVD Drives

If you have got multiple DVD drives installed on your computer system or are making use of virtual DVD drives you might have noticed that they do not come with proper names. On my system my Samsung DVD drive is simply called drive E while my first virtual drive is drive F. That leads to [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 13th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Windows Explorer Tweaker

Tweak Xplorer is a visual Windows Explorer tweaker. The software is fully portable and has been specifically designed to be compatible with Windows XP. Tweak Xplorer can be used to change the appearance of folders, toolbars and thumbnails in Windows Explorer. Folder options include to change the text color of a specific folder and to [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

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