At last week’s Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft detailed it’s ongoing strategy to bring a connectedness to all the different types of devices in its product ranges.  This makes sense to a certain extent as a unified interface across Windows PCs and tablets, Windows Phone, Xbox and other devices makes considerable sense and is what Apple [...]

Categories: Microsoft

Windows Live Mesh (WLM) is an internet-based remote application developed by Microsoft for internet-based file synchronization. This is essentially the basic method to synchronize files between two or more computers on a network, useful for some home setups, but essential for business networks. This article refers specifically to Windows 7 operating systems. The synchronization can [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Our data is becoming more and more important to us as we’re keeping ever more of our lives on our PCs, tablets, smartphones and in the cloud.  Currently there are precious few ways to encrypt this data in a way that’s guaranteed to be trouble-free.  Two of the most obvious being hard disks with encryption [...]

Categories: Security, Tutorials Basic

The command line tool openfiles has been part of the Windows operating system for a long time. It basically can be used to display all system files that are currently opened by users of the same computer network. One of its applications is to analyze file access errors. It is for instance usually not possible [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

It’s the age-old problem with Windows and something I get more email about than anything else.  All the time people are emailing me saying that Windows has failed and they’re at risk of losing all their files and data.  It is really appalling to me that this is still happening.  After all, the focus of your PC [...]

Categories: Advice

Here at gHacks we pride ourselves on giving you the very best help and advice, and it seems that we’re not the only ones who think so.  After an approach by the company, Microsoft have now confirmed that they will be putting my tutorial videos for Windows 7 on the official Microsoft support website at [...]

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I’m frequently getting articles submitted as Word documents. These documents include pictures and the text, and I somehow have to save the pictures to my local drive before I can upload them to the web server and embed them in the article. One of the things that irritated me for quite some time was the [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

When you are in charge of your company’s or organization’s infrastructure, you need to plan ahead. That’s probably one of the core reasons why many tech savvy users are speculating about the release date of the beta and final release of the Windows 8 operating system. A larger group is made up of tech enthusiasts [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Windows

I get troubleshooting emails on a wide variety of subjects, it’s always great when you can help people out and one I received this week was from someone who’d bought the latest version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus in response to a minor virus attack on her PC. Kaspersky removed the virus diligently enough, but it had [...]

Categories: Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic