Now that mobile carriers around the world are beginning to roll out updates to Windows Phone, many Windows PC users are finding that the update(s) cannot be installed because they encounter an […]
A core website metric is page loading time. It determines the time it takes to fully load a web page. With each passing second, visitors are more likely to close the tab […]
The features available on iTunes have developed a lot over recent years. One thing that has become more popular is the ability to create a playlist. Of course, there are several reasons […]
NVIDIA has just published a new beta driver on their driver downloads website. The driver GEFORCE/ION DRIVER V270.51 is available for all supported operating systems and NVIDIA graphics card from GeForce 6 […]
There are so many reasons why a VPN Server makes perfect sense. For one, anyone with the credentials and the address can then gain access to the internal network from an external […]
Music these days is anything but cheap. However, it is a hugely popular industry, and most people are currently buying their music digitally rather than physically. In fact, just this week Mercury […]
I have been using the encryption software True Crypt for years and ran only once into a situation where I nearly lost all the data on one of the partitions. Back then […]
Changing a user's account name in Windows is a straightforward, easy to achieve task. The problem that many users experience after changing the name is that the name of the profile folder […]
I'm currently working a bit on the technical backend of this WordPress blog. You may know that I have started to create custom category pages for each blog category (like Windows, Firefox […]
I get all manner of emails in my weekly mailbag, but one of the most common is about repairing a corrupt startup. I have a video on YouTube explaining how to use the […]
Windows users with little computing experience enter a world of trouble if they forget their login password. They receive the error message "the user name or password is incorrect" and do not […]
Family computers should have independent user accounts for every family member. These user accounts can be configured by the system administrator, usually one of the parents, for specific requirements and regulations. Some […]
When you look at HTML5 video support of the five most popular web browsers, you notice that there is not a single browser supporting the two formats WebM and H.264. Depending on […]
The Microsoft Windows operating system stores all DNS look-ups in a cache to speed up the connection for future visits to previously visited websites or servers. DNS for simplifications sake turns domain […]
Removing a service in Windows 10 or lower takes a bit of effort if you have never tweaked the registry or used the command line before. It’s not as easy as disabling […]
Some PDF documents contain forms that you may need to fill out. Many computer users print the pdf document to fill out the form manually on the printout. This means more work […]
One of the biggest problems with Windows, every version in fact is that there is a different installation DVD for each version. Whether that's Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate […]
The question came just up again and I realized that I have never posted a tutorial about editing and reseting the Windows Hosts file. I'd like to take a look at the […]
There have not been many complaints yet from users who have installed the service pack update on their Windows PCs. Still, there are always some cases where users want to uninstall the […]
The first service pack for the Windows 7 operating system has been released yesterday (see Windows 7 Service Pack Update Downloads Live) and it seems as if most Windows 7 users did […]
I was pretty excited when I read for the first time about Microsoft's Arc Touch mouse. The unique design and touch capabilities brought features to the table that no other Windows mouse […]
The inimitable Sinclair ZX Spectrum is to be reborn for its 30th birthday with an interesting twist. Games company Elite, which wrote many of the best-selling titles for the original home computer, […]
Most ISPs are in the process of enabling the IPv6 protocol which is then available for usage in addition to the currently used IPv4 protocol. Windows Vista and Windows 7 users do […]
I'll come clean and say that I've still not been drawn into the whole Angry Birds phenomenon, but that's not to say I haven't heard about it. It's very difficult not to […]
In a move that's reminiscent of the famous Pentium floating point bug, Intel has issued a recall of all new Sandy Bridge PCs and laptops that run its latest generation of processor. […]
It's been on ongoing story and has produced the first ruling on file-sharing in the UK where Judge Birss said back in December 2010, "The term used by those sections of the Act is ‘authorising’ […]
Ed Bott has published a very interesting article today about the benefits of running Windows 7 on a solid state hard disk (SSD). He wanted to test the real-world benefits, if there are any, […]
3D is the next big thing on computers, certainly for gaming and it will be interesting to see how it translates to the desktop. Those clever people at ExoPC will be shipping […]
If you are looking to speed up the startup of your Windows operating system then the following tip may be for your. You probably have already removed unnecessary startup items and tweaked […]
The visual conditions can sometimes be that bad that you can barely read anything on the monitor. That's for instance the case if you are working with your laptop in broad sunlight […]
If you have a need to manage MySQL databases, you know that learning the syntax for the various MySQL tools can be a real nightmare. Fortunately there are tools out there that […]
The HTML5 web video wars are heating up again, this time with news that Google announced to remove support for the h.264 codec from the Chrome browser in the next couple months. […]
Each USB port can provide power to connected devices. This is not always necessary, especially if the connected devices have their own external power supply. But some devices need the power provided […]
I really like Grooveshark mainly because it does not have IP or country restrictions and that the majority of features can be used without an account. That couples with a vast music […]
Microsoft Hardware has designed a new computer mouse called Microsoft Touch Mouse which adds touch features on top of the usual mouse functionality. The mouse looks like any other mouse albeit with […]
Gadgets, which is just another word for small applications that run on the desktop, have been improved in Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 7. Introduced in Windows Vista and restricted to a […]
By default, a Ubuntu desktop with Samba installed will be a member of the Windows workgroup named WORKGROUP. Because that machine is a member of WORKGROUP, you would think you could browse […]
I have covered all the basics and then some in our Windows Update overview which I published a few days ago here at Ghacks. What I did not mention in the article […]
If you do any graphics you know that, at some point, your work is going to have to turn to much higher quality tools. Although I find The GIMP great for day […]
Server OSes, such as CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise do not enjoy the same simplicity as does the modern Linux desktop when it comes to issues like sharing […]
