The Windows operating system launches all startup programs more or less at the same time during system start. This can slow down the startup of the system significantly especially with multiple applications in the autostart list. The consequence for the user is a slower unresponsive system until the programs have all been started.
The most popular [...]
Optimize Windows Startup Programs With Start-Q
Merge PDF Files With PDF Binder
There are several scenarios where users might want to merge PDF files on their computer system. Some of the most popular are to join multiple pdf files into one for easier access, to merge collaborative work into one larger pdf file and to combine multiple documents into one before sending it out via email.
PDF [...]
Display iFilter Plugins With SearchFilterView
The Windows operating system, or more precisely the Windows Indexing Service and Windows Desktop Search, use so called iFilters to not only index the names of files on storage devices but also their contents. Several iFilters come preinstalled with the operating system. Windows 7 for instance supports mime, html, document, plain text and binary handlers [...]
The Cleaner
The Cleaner was back in the days one of the few solid programs to clean malicious software from a Windows computer system. It somehow seems to have lost its appeal to many users even though the developer’s claim that it is the fastest anti-virus solution with best virus detection rates available for the Windows operating [...]
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC Download
The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate was released last week to MSDN subscribers. Microsoft promised back then that the download would be made available to the public shortly afterwards. Microsoft kept the promise and downloads are now available for the public as well.
Visual Studio 2010 offers many improvements over the current retail version Visual [...]
Computer Troubleshooting Tool Look In My PC
Technicians who are troubleshooting PC issues or errors often need to use a tool that can provide them with extensive information about the computer system’s hardware and software. We have reviewed many programs in both categories in the past including Speccy, PC Wizard or Driver View in the hardware category and Hijack This, Autoruns or [...]
Music Player XMPlay 3.5.1 Released
Windows users have several choices when it comes to selecting a music player. The Windows operating system comes preinstalled with Windows Media Player which is a valid option. And then there are half a dozen popular music players from third parties like iTunes, Winamp, Foobar, AIMP2 or MediaMonkey.
XMPlay is still mostly unknown to the majority [...]
SSD Drive Tweaker
Early adopters are use cutting edge technology which sometimes backfires. If you bought a first or second generation Solid State Drive (SSD) you might have experienced this first hand. SSD performance is fine in the beginning but begins to go down with use to a point where the once fast and accessible cutting edge drive [...]