Microsoft has removed the useful File Types tab in the folder options of Windows Explorer in Windows Vista and Windows 7. The File Types menu displayed a list of known file extensions along with editing options. Types is a lightweight Windows program to modify file extension properties under Windows Vista and Windows 7 (it actually [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 121
RoboForm Everywhere Review
Keeping track of online accounts is not necessarily an easy task. Especially so if you follow security guidelines to never use the same password on different sites. Web browsers offer basic password managers that store the data for the user, but this means that the data is only available in that browser. If you want [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 9
Windows Defender Offline Tool Now Available
The majority of threats that land on a Windows PC can be removed by antivirus software while the operating system is running. Some threats on the other hand cannot be fully removed when the system is running. The only solution in this case is to either boot into a different operating system, restore a previous [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Log USB Drive Connections In Windows With USBLogView
Can you find out if someone else has been on your PC, has connected an external USB drive to it, and copied data from it to the drive? Tools like USBDeview tell you which USB devices have been connected in the past. The program even tells you when a device has been connected to a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 99
Wordweb Pro Review
The Internet has made it a lot easier for computer users to look up words, definitions, translations and encyclopedias. But even if you use the Internet for these things, you may run into usability issues or sites that display one kind of information but lack others that you are also interested in. WordWeb Pro is [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
- Comments: 4
Everest Home Edition, System Information Software
This fascinating freeware is a system information and diagnostic application that gives you an interface that the Windows Control Panel just can’t offer. All of the information Everest provides is something you could find on your own, it would just take much longer. Even low-level hardware information is displayed in detail. The interface is friendly [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
List The 100 Largest Windows Files
You have several options when you are running out of storage space. You could consider uninstalling software that you no longer need, run a temporary files cleaner like CCleaner, search for large files to delete them, backup files to restore space or even buy a new hard drive to extend the available space. One of [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 74
Alarm++ Review
When you look at how alarms are configured in the windows operating system, you’d probably come to the conclusion that the system used is not all that comfortable. One would expect an alarm system to be tied to the system clock for instance, for easy configuration. That is unfortunately not the case. One of the [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
- Comments: 4
Toolwiz Care 1.0 Optimizing The Pc System.
This new free software package is an all in one stop to help you speed up you PC in many different ways. There are built-in suggestions to fix registry errors, defragment drives and much more. This package looks at the overall health of your system and reports the perceived health on the main window. You [...]
