Windows does seem to have the habit of changing the default browser back to Internet Explorer from time to time. Many web browsers do display a prompt on start that users can […]
Disk images come in various formats like the popular ISO format but also img, bin, mdf, cdi, nrg or b51. The formats are created by various applications and one hardly comes upon […]
The error message "There Are No Active Mixer Devices Available" appeared after clicking on the Volume icon in the Windows System Tray the other day. Audio worked fine before shutting the computer […]
If you have liked the Desktop Christmas Tree you will love Snow Desktop as it is the perfect companion for the Christmas Tree. Snow Desktop will make it snow on the desktop […]
Update: Newzie has not been updated since 2007 and I suggest you give the excellent RSS reader QuiteRSS a try instead. It is the program that I'm using currently to read news […]
Minime (via Lifehacker) is an AutoIt application that can be used to put any open window - be it program or folder - into the Windows System Tray. While that is not […]
Crystal Disk Info has been reviewed before here at Ghacks as a tool to display the work hours of any connected hard drive on a Windows system. The hard drive diagnostic tool […]
Roman send me an email yesterday reminding me that I never covered Easeus Disk Copy at Ghacks. He used the disk copy software in combination with gParted to move his operating system […]
Microsoft is protecting the Windows Vista operating system from unsigned third party themes. The protection prevents the installation from Vista themes if they have not been signed by Microsoft. The usual way […]
The maximize, minimize and close controls are located on the right side of each window title in the Windows operating system. While that might be a convenient location after working for years […]
Animated gifs have a bad reputation on the Internet which stems from the early days. There was a time back then when the Internet was new that animated gifs were considered a […]
Skype saves logs of all conversations in the voice over IP software. In Windows those files are stored in the Skype folder in the user profile. These log files are hard to […]
Tabs have become the standard in web browsers to browse Internet pages. They have several advantages like being space efficient or easier manageable. The first application for Windows that introduced tabbed browsing […]
If you ever had a kid running around in a room with a computer you most likely must have noticed that the little brats seem to be fascinated by the computer lights, […]
Microsoft removed the address bar in Windows XP Service Pack 3. The address bar was a toolbar of the Windows Taskbar that worked as a quick launcher for websites and files. There […]
Video analysis is an area that we have not covered before here at Ghacks. Kinovea is an Open Source video analysis software for coaches, athletes and medical professionals. It can be used […]
Metadata in Word documents can reveal information that the creator of the document had no intention to distribute. This ranges from information about the author to comments and a unique identifying ID. […]
Lots of tools- like the previously reviewed Mp3 Merge -Â can join multiple mp3 files into a single mp3 file that contains all audio of all files joined in the process. Mp3 […]
Hot Corners is a relative small Open Source application for Windows operating systems. It was written in the Auto It language which means that some virus scanners detect it as a virus […]
We have covered the Wikipedia Screensaver in the past which displayed and rotated through random Wikipedia pages. Some users did not like the randomness of the screensaver which could bring up inappropriate […]
We have already covered the Windows Live Facebook plugin today which made it possible to upload photos from the Windows Live Photo Gallery application directly to Facebook. The Live Upload To Youtube […]
The Windows Live Photo Gallery Facebook Plugin enables the direct upload of photos from Windows Live Photo Gallery to Facebook. Two applications are needed to make this work. Windows Live Photo Gallery […]
One of the more visible changes of the Windows Vista operating system was the Windows Vista Sidebar which made it possible to put so called gadgets on the Windows Desktop. Gadgets are […]
The Windows XP or Windows Vista Start Menus provide only limited options to customize their appearance and change the links and the way they are displayed. Open Menu+ is an Open Source […]
There is no obvious way to merge several Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and while many users probably could not think of a reason why someone would want to merge PowerPoint presentations some might […]
FragExt is not your usual defragmenting software that you point at a system partition and let it do its work. It can be used to defragment selected files much like Defraggler with […]
File Verifier++ is a portable software program for Windows that can check the file integrity of selected files. This is done by calculating the hash of every selected file on the first […]
Microsoft released only two patches for their products on this November's Patch Tuesday. The Microsoft Security Bulletins MS08-069 and MS08-068 patched two vulnerability with the status critical and important. The vulnerability rated […]
DeskAngel is a lightweight portable software application for Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista that provides additional windows desktop management functionality. Many of the features can be set in the system […]
I realize that I may not know enough, but does Windows 7 offer any radically different stuff? I mean I am one of the few people who likes Vista, but how exactly […]
Not everyone is a fan of changing the looks of an operating system. Some users are perfectly happy with the default skin it shipped with and would never think of changing the […]
If you have to pay per Megabyte transferred or only have a limited amount of free traffic until you have to pay for additional Megabytes transferred then you might want to use […]
If you like to stuff blinking lights, elfs or Christmas trees into and around your house as soon as the Christmas season nears you might also like the desktop Christmas tree. Everyone […]
Is it a good or a bad sign if a company starts to create specific uninstallers for their software programs to remove them complete from computer systems they had been installed on? […]
Scanning a computer system with a computer security software like ESET SysInspector can reveal security related problems in short time. Those security software programs are by far not the all-knowing and -seeing […]
Aero Shake and Snap was one of the new Windows 7 features that came to light during the Professional Developers Conference 08 in Los Angeles. The two features provide better windows management […]
It can sometimes be complicated to check if an Internet connection is still alive. Sure, modem or routers usually display information about the Internet connection and might reveal if it is still […]
Photofiltre is a professional looking image retouching program. It comes with the usual set of photo editing tools but the real strength of the software program lies in its image filtering and […]
The following article is a guide that explains how you can create profiles for the installed video card to optimize it for different applications, namely working on the desktop and gaming. The […]
Removing unneeded text from a text document can be a speedy or slow process. It's relatively easy if the text that has to be removed is not linked to other text that […]
