Switching themes in Windows can have a few side effects that only become apparent after working with the system for some time. Yesterday’s switch to the Royale theme for Windows XP has the negative side effect that the text of the icons on the computer’s desktop were not transparent but showing in black which did [...]
Create A List Of All Installed Windows Hotfixes
Windows hotfixes usually solve errors and problems after installing them. It happened in the past however that they did produce additional errors that could bring a computer system to a standstill. It is therefor handy to produce a list of all installed Windows Hotfixes in the way that they have been installed on a computer [...]
svchost Viewer
The software program of choice to analyze processes is usually Process Explorer from Sysinternals. Yes, there are other applications that do the same but Process Explorer is probably the standard application. The Open Source program svchost viewer concentrates on the scvhost service only which somewhat limits its usability.
It does not seem to provide any additional [...]
Fix Windows Vista Resetting Folder View Settings
Users with many folders on their system might experience an annoying problem in Windows Vista which has already plagued many Windows XP users as well. Windows remembers by default the folder view settings of 200 local folders and 200 network folders initially. Windows Vista remembers 5000 folders which are usually enough for most users.
Some users [...]
Back To Basics: Backup Registry
The Back to Basics series looks at common tasks and problems that Windows users might encounter on a daily basis and explains solutions and ways to do those “things”. To kickoff this new article series I’m going to look at ways to backup the Windows Registry.
The Windows Registry is the core of the Windows system [...]
View Saved Windows Explorer Folder Settings
Windows Explorer can remember custom folder settings for each folder on the computer system. Those saved settings include the display mode, the window position, the last modified date and the last size of the Window.
The folder settings are stored in the Windows Registry and ShellBagsView from Nirsoft provides the means of displaying all of [...]
Open Files Patcher
If you open files in Windows XP you notice that the default open files dialog always resets to a rather tiny menu. Even if your resize the Open Files menu you will notice that it defaults to the tiny size again after closing the application or restarting the operating system.
The File Open Patcher software patches [...]
