Not all operating systems handle the downloading of photos from digital cameras that well as Windows 7. The operating system automatically recognizes the photos and displays an option to transfer them to a location on the computer system, usually the My Pictures folder. Some operating systems do not offer that feature which means that their [...]

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A recent security software trend seems to be to offer multiple editions of a program that differ in functionality in price. If you look at companies like Microsoft, Symantec or Kaspersky you notice that they all offer different editions of their programs. Security software in particular is offering two, three or sometimes even more different [...]

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The developers of the video player Miro have created a new software program to convert videos. Miro Video Converter is an easy to use program that can convert most video formats into mp4, ogg Theora or formats that are supported by specific phones or mobile devices. The biggest advantage of the video converter is its [...]

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Online videos are in high demand and one of the most popular pastime on today’s Internet. Services like Youtube, Dailymotion, Hulu or Gametrailers are visited by millions of users each week. The videos that are hosted on those sites can only be viewed online and it is understandable that many Internet users are looking for [...]

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Windows users have no option to change their startup programs other than to manually edit them using either the msconfig tool or a more sophisticated third party alternative such as Autoruns. But disabling Windows startup items means that these need to be enabled manually again in case they are need at a later time. Not [...]

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Making sure that files cannot be recovered after they have been deleted is an essential task in several situations. It is for instance important to prevent data restoration before giving the storage device away or selling it to third parties. It is a privacy issue and some computer users do schedule these disk wiping tasks [...]

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7Plus is an Open Source software for the Windows operating system that adds many features to the system that speed up the workflow. Features can be divided into Windows Explorer, general Windows related, windows handling and misc features. Some examples of what 7Plus adds are folder favorites in Windows Explorer, shortcuts to create folders, to [...]

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The free version of Avira Antivir displays a popup ad every time it is updated which quickly becomes an annoyance to most users who do not want to upgrade their free copy to a paid version of the antivirus software. We have covered ways to disable the ad popup in Avira before which required computer [...]

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Most computer games save the player’s progress automatically and provide an option to manually save the game progress as well. Those saves are then stored mostly in the My Documents folder and to a lesser extent in the program’s game directory. These saves can be backed up manually by simply copying the relevant files to [...]

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