The recent release of CCleaner 2.30 provided us an opportunity to take a closer look at the popular temporary files cleaning tool, which we last review in October 2009. CCleaner is mainly used for deleting temporary files and cleaning history files on the Windows operating system. Its customizability and features make it one of the [...]

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Some software programs make use of an automatic or manual update checker to inform the user about new versions of the software whenever one is available. Most programs execute those checks when they are started on the operating system. Some go a step further and add an updater either to a task scheduler or to [...]

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Windows 7 tweaks can be applied either manually by manipulation the Windows Registry or by using one of the available tweaking programs that often offer comfortable access to hundreds of configuration settings. Hardcore users might prefer to apply all tweaks manually which has the advantage that they can be sure that it is applied correctly. [...]

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Windows maintains a list of programs that have been executed on the operating system in the Windows Registry. This Windows program history contains detailed information about the programs that have been launched by the active Windows user. The feature has been available since for a long time and Microsoft has continued to implement it in [...]

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Adebis Photo Sorter is a free software for the Windows operating system that can aid the user in organizing the photos that are accessible on the computer system. The digital photo organizer can come in handy in numerous occasions but in particular when a user wants to sort and structure a photo collection or create [...]

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Many users run a software like GigaTweaker right after installation of the operating system to perform a number of tweaks at once that would otherwise take longer to apply. Some might also use it after searching for a solution for a specific annoyance or problem that they have encountered while working with the operating system [...]

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We have shown in a recent tutorial how Windows users can move large applications, files and folders to another hard drive without breaking anything in the progress. Think of large games like Dragon Age and Steam games or applications like Nero, Microsoft Office or Adobe Photoshop. The tutorial was also handy for users who were [...]

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My favorite program to convert video to DVD is XtoDVD. It is a commercial software but offers such a convenient way of burning videos to DVD. But there are times when a video does not have to be burned on DVD. It might for instance need to be converted to be played on a mobile [...]

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It is relatively easy to record media streams such as those offered by Internet Radio stations or video streams if the right program is selected to do the job. Both VLC and MPlayer offer all the tools to record both types of streams. The problem is that users have to use the command line to [...]

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