The Windows XP operating system displays several user related system folders in the My Computer overview. These system folders include Shared Documents and user folders. Some users, especially those who are working on single user computer systems, might want to get rid of these folders to receive a better overview of the connected hard drives [...]

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Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

Registry Report is a forensic software program for the Windows operating system that can generate Windows Registry reports by loading Registry hives into the software. It should be noted that the Registry software can only load hives that are not currently in use by the operating system and is therefor ideal for analysing Registry hives [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

You might have experienced a situation in the past where Windows asked you to put the original Windows installation CD into a computer drive to continue. This could have been the result of a system file scan or because of an installation of an additional software package. The cause does not really matter here but [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

File associations are written to the Windows Registry by default. This usually happens during the installation of the operating system and computer software programs. Installing Microsoft Word will make it the default word processor on the computer system with file types like docx or doc opened by it by default. The same is true for [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

RegFromApp is a super lightweight Windows Registry monitoring software program that can monitor the Windows Registry changes of selected applications. The Nirsoft application comes with the usual traits which include portability and data export.
The program can be executed right from the location where it was unpacked to after download. It will display a list of [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

PowerTools Lite is a free software program to cleanup the Windows Registry and operating system. It is actually a lite version of JV16 PowerTools and currently in release candidate stage. The software has been designed with ease of use in mind. It suggests to perform a quick system scan at startup which will display the [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

System administrators might want to limit the use of external USB flash drives by making them read only. This can actually be useful in several situations like preventing users from copying local data to the external device or preventing malicious software from spreading on a computer network using those flash drives.
The Windows operating system has [...]

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Categories: Uncategorized, Windows, software