Microsoft has decided to remove several context menu entries from Windows 7′s Windows Explorer context menu if more than 15 items are selected at once. The open, print and edit links are specifically removed whenever more than 15 files or folders are selected. This limit may affect context menu entries of other programs as well. [...]

Categories: troubleshooting, Tutorials Basic

The default file browser Windows Explorer under Windows 7 displays several sidebar items by default which link to libraries, user favorites, Homegroup and connected hard drives and optical drives. While those guarantee quick access to files and folders, they often display at least some folders and links that users do not need. A Windows 7 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Windows 7 and Vista users see a representation of the free and used drive space in Windows Explorer. That’s handy for a number of reasons, for instance before copying or processing large files on the computer system. Windows XP users on the other hand do not have that representation in Windows Explorer. The free software [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I first became aware of the problem when Dotan posted about it in the Ghacks forum. He mentioned that he could not “figure out how to get the File Browser to stop trying to rename files” when clicking on them. There are two situations where Windows interprets a left-click on a file or folder as [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

The majority of Windows users is using Windows Explorer to copy files and folders on the system. That’s usually fine especially for a small amount of files. The lack of information and optimization on the other hand may lead to frustration, especially when transfer rates and completion times seem to jump a lot. Talent Copy [...]

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Many Facebook users like to post photos and images to share them with their friends. This can be photos from parties, holidays or other occasions. Chance is, if you are on Facebook you have at least a few photos uploaded to your personal space there. But how do you upload those photos to the social [...]

Categories: Facebook, Software, Windows

It is sometimes necessary to delete a file permanently from a computer system. It may be after you have read a business document on a public computer, watched or viewed media on a work computer or to protect family members from accessing files on a home computer. There are a lot of programs out there [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Several elements in the Windows operating system have been restricted by Microsoft. It is for instance not possible to pin folders to the Windows 7 taskbar, or to add programs to the Favorites group in Windows Explorer. There are however workarounds available that allow a user to do just that. This leaves the question unanswered [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

DeskIntegrator is a small portable program for the Windows operating system that can be used to add program links directly to the desktop right-click menu. We all know that it is possible to add those links manually to the context menu using the Windows Registry, and DeskIntegrator basically offers to graphical user interface for the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows