Bypass File Deletion Prompts In Windows
When you try to delete a file or folder in Windows Explorer, a confirmation prompt is displayed first that is basically asking you if you want to proceed with the deletion of […]
PC Too Loud? Here Are The Tools To Silence It
After I set up my new PC I noticed that it was considerably louder than before. That was somewhat puzzling as it was still making use of the same hardware, and that […]
Fix The Program Can't Start Because MSVCR100D.dll Is Missing From Your Computer.
I had to reinstall Windows 7 on a different hard drive on my computer after the root drive crashed the other day. That meant a lot of re-installations of software, and sometimes […]
Fix Mouse Double-Clicking When You click Once
For the past few days I have experienced a rather strange issue on my computer that made the mouse double-click sometimes when I single left-clicked it. While that was not a problem […]
How To Fix Aero Issues In Windows 7
I received an error message that Aero was not enabled the first time I tried to install the custom Mac OS X theme for Windows 7. I remembered that I was running […]
Using Bitlocker in Windows (Best Practice Guide)
If you use a laptop for work, or it you carry important or sensitive data with you then it should be encrypted. Put simply the repercussions of not using encryption are far […]
Check if Your Devices Are Compatible With Windows 8
Before you consider installing a version of Windows 8, you should make sure that all of your third party devices work fine with the operating system. Third party devices include video cards, […]
4 Options To Save Bandwidth and Speed Up Web Browsing
There are certain situations where it may make sense to save as much bandwidth as possible while connected to the Internet. The most obvious is if you are limited to a certain […]
Limit The Upload Bandwidth Of Windows Programs
I noticed yesterday that the popular live streaming software Sopcast was using all of my computer's upload bandwidth. The program uses P2P technologies to distribute the live stream to all connected users, […]
Using Virtualization in Windows 7 Free Webcast
As we all use computers over more and more years we become comfortable with software that "just works" and we want to continue using it for as long as possible. This causes […]
Diagnosing a Blue Screen of Death Error in Windows
For many years now the famous Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) has been the ultimate indication that something disastrous has happened to make your computer die, but how useful is the information […]
How to Create a Hidden Encrypted Volume With True Crypt
A judge recently ordered a US citizen to decrypt storage space on a computer so that police forces could analyze protected files on the system. In this particular case, the defendant was […]
Attaching an Alert Task to a Windows Error
The Windows Event Viewer in one of the most useful, yet most under used features of the operating system. Accessed by typing event into the Start Menu search box, or through the […]
How to Write a Windows 8 Book, Research and Marketing
Last week I threw down the gauntlet to any readers who might want to write your own Windows 8 book with a couple of posts here and here offering a quick guide […]
Microsoft Outlook Window Not Appearing Fix
Outlook is not my main email client and I never really used it that much. Still, I have it installed as a part of my Office 2010 installation, and I tend to […]
How To Turn A Magnet Link Into A Torrent File
The popular Bittorrent indexer The Piratebay announced yesterday that the decision was made to switch the position of torrent and magnet link download links on the website in order to save bandwidth. […]
A Better Way to Use Ninite
Ninite is a great way to easily install many essential programs. It takes the work out of loading a new computer with the software you need. While there is one thing that […]
How To Run The Advanced Disk Cleanup Version In Windows
The Disk Cleanup tool offers a great way to quickly free up disk space by deleting temporary files that are no longer needed. It is in no way as complete or thorough […]
YouTube Tip: Shortcut To Skip Part Of A Video
If you are an Internet regular you have probably heard about the Wadsworth Constant, an Internet meme that has come to some fame at the end of last year. A user named […]
How To Copy Wlan Profiles
When you are moving from one PC to the other, or are making use of multiple devices running Windows, you probably want to have data available on all the PCs. This can […]
Before Dual Booting: What you Need to Know
The topic of dual booting operating systems has been covered in a few ways on this site, but here is a primer to provide you with some important information before attempting any […]
How to Configure Windows Remote Assistance On Windows 7
Windows Remote Assistance is a tool that Microsoft has integrated into the Windows 7 operating system. It is in many regards similar to popular remote access applications like Teamviewer, as it allows […]
How to Partition and Un-Partition your Hard Drive in Windows
Hard drive partitioning is useful for creating virtual drives and creating disk volumes that can be used for storing particular file types. For example, if you did not want to keep all […]
Diagnosing and Repairing Difficult Problems in Windows 7 Free Webcast
Windows 7 is Microsoft's most stable and reliable version of their desktop operating system yet, but it's still such a complex piece of software that when something does go wrong it can […]
How To Store More Files On Dropbox Than Your Ratio Allows
I have been using the cloud storage and file synchronization service Dropbox more frequently lately. You can read more about that here and here. You probably know that Dropbox keeps track of […]
Setting up and Configuring a New PC, Free eBook
With Christmas only ten days away you might well be lucky enough to receive a new PC or laptop as a present, or you may be giving one as a gift. New […]
How To Disable WLAN Background Scans
Some Windows users who are connecting via wireless lan to the Internet may have noticed regular ping spikes and sometimes even disconnects due to an automated background scan. Especially Windows Vista users […]
Display Files In Windows 7 Libraries, Favorites Differently
Files in standard folders can be sorted and displayed in a number of ways. When it comes to sorting, users have options to display files in list form or as thumbnails. The […]
Combine Dropbox and uTorrent to Load Torrents Remotely
You may come upon torrents that you'd like to download when you are out of house. Maybe you are at a friend's house, at work, or in a foreign country. The problem […]
Change The Default Folder Picture In Windows Explorer
Some folders in Windows Explorer show a single preview picture embedded in the folder icon. It seems as if the selected image is picked randomly from the available images in the folder. […]
Save Technet Documents As PDF or HTML
Microsoft's Technet site is a huge documentation repository for all things Microsoft. The library on Technet offers technical documentation for Microsoft products and technologies. Sometimes you may want to save documents to […]
Hard Drive Temperature Thresholds, What You Need To Know
Hard drives, like other electronic devices, have temperature thresholds that they need to run in. Manufacturers like Western Digital or Seagate inform their customers about those thresholds. But how can the customers […]
Transfer Video To DVD With DeVeDe
We have covered the video DVD creation software DeVeDe twice here at Ghacks. First a review of the Windows version (see Video To DVD) in 2008 and then of the Linux version […]
Play Playlist .PLS Files In Windows Media Player
The playlist (.pls) file format is without doubt one of the most popular formats when it comes to Internet radio stations. All it takes to tune into a radio station is to […]
Use RSSOwl To Discover New RSS Feeds
RSSOwl, my feed reader of choice, offers several interesting features that are not apparent on first glance. You may now that I ended up with this Java based feed reader after using […]
How To Remove The Office 2010 Starter Virtual Drive
A few days ago I wrote a brief tutorial about downloading and installing Office Starter 2010 from Microsoft. One of the "side-effects" of installing Microsoft Office Starter on the system is the […]
Cleaning Out Windows Live Mesh Temporary Files
Windows Live Mesh is a great little program that can synchronise your files across multiple PCs. laptops and tablets as well as creating an online backup of up to 5Gb using Microsoft's […]
Using Natural Language Search in Windows 7
Search in Windows 7 can be difficult and awkward to use as in order to use it properly you have to remember a lot of, sometimes very obscure commands including size:gigantic to […]
How To Disable The Caps Lock Key Permanently
When I was working in IT I sometimes dealt with support requests that involved the caps lock key. Users were complaining that they could not enter their password, or that they locked […]
Eraser Has Stopped Working, Fix Inside
For a while now I received an error message whenever I tried to run the file deletion software Eraser. Eraser, which I reviewed in 2005 for the first time here on Ghacks […]
