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Skype Voice Changer

If you always wanted to sound like someone else when making calls in Skype you might find the Skype Voice Changer application handy. The software provides the means to change the voice […]

NTFS Link Windows Shell Extension

NTFS Link is a Windows Shell Extension that provides the functionality to create hard links and junctions on hard drives formatted with the NTFS file system. Hard Links basically make it possible […]

Play Movies In Rar Archives Without Unpacking

If you regularly download movies packed in rar archives you might like the idea of playing those movies directly without having to unpack the rar archives first. A few specialized video players […]

AVG Remover

Software companies that release specialized tools to remove their software programs from a computer system are usually regarded with suspicion by many users. Many feel that there should not be specialized uninstallers […]

Windows Vista Taskbar Resize

Windows 7 changes the appearance of the taskbar quite drastically. One of the new visual changes to taskbar items is the height of each item. While it is possible to change the […]

Print Management Software

Remote Queue Manager Personal is a multi-lingual print management software for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista that can be used to manage local and remote print jobs. The […]

Launch Software Automatically With Xecutor

We all know about the autostart mechanism of the Windows operating system (and others) that will automatically start applications and processes that are listed in one of the many different autostart locations. […]

Windows XP exFAT File System Driver

Microsoft has released an update for Windows XP SP2 and SP3 system that adds exFAT file system drivers to the operating system. The exFAT file system is the successor to the FAT32 […]

Display Last 100 Changed Files

Last Changed Files is a portable software for Windows NT based systems like Windows XP or Windows Vista that will display the last 100 changed files of a selected folder or drive. […]

Registry Analyzer

Registry Ripper is a portable software program to automatically analyze Registry Hives. It will analyze a selected Registry hive and export the findings into a selected text document. Registry Hives are locked […]

SpeedCrunch Multi-OS Calculator

SpeedCrunch is a versatile calculator for multiple operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh and Linux. The calculator is still an early development version, but it contains several interesting options and functionality […]

Monitor Directories With Directory Changes Watcher

Directory Changes Watcher is a small, lightweight (2 Megabytes while running minimized in the Windows System Tray) and portable software program for the Windows operating system that monitors directories and can move […]

PagePlus: A better and cheaper DTP program than Publisher

99% of home users will use Microsoft Publisher as their desktop publisher but will be unaware of a free superior package offered by Serif. PagePlus is a 'budget' desktop publishing suite published […]

Analyzing Windows Shutdown Performance

The shutdown of Windows takes only a matter of seconds usually before the computer powers down. It can take longer if commands or applications are executed at shutdown - like cleaning temporary […]

Windows Timer

TimeComX is a portable software program for computers running a Windows operating system including Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 that can be used to put the operating system into […]

QtWeb Internet Browser

A handful of popular Internet browsers make up more than 99% of the browser market share. When you look on the Internet you find lots of articles about Firefox, Internet Explorer and […]

The Only Batch File Renamer You Ever Need

ReNamer is a very flexible portable batch file renamer that comes with powerful renaming options. It is possible to add multiple files or folders to the software program which are then shown […]

Virtual Floppy Drives

Modern computers do not come with floppy drives anymore which can turn out to be problematic if a software requires a floppy drive. This is usually software that has been written when […]

Windows 7 Codec Package

Not everyone is a friend of so called codec packages which basically consist of a collection of audio and video codecs that get batch installed on a computer system. The main point […]

Copy Locked And Open Files In Windows

Locked or open files are not only problematic when trying to delete them on the computer system. They can also be problematic when a user tries to move a folder with files […]

Converting WTV files

WTV is the default recording format in Windows Media Center if the TV Pack has been installed and it is also the default recording format in Windows 7 Beta. Microsoft has announced […]

Computer Whiteboard software Easy Whiteboard

Easy Whiteboard is a software to emulate a whiteboard on a computer running Windows. It turns the computer screen into a whiteboard that you can draw on making it ideal for presentations, […]

Digital Camera Software Picmv

The software that usually comes with the purchase of a digital camera is usually not the fastest nor the most comfortable to work with. It is usually much faster to simply remove […]

Fix Hard Drive Or DVD Not Showing Up In Windows 7

Windows 7 Beta is very stable. There are only a handful of beta testers that are reporting problems with the new operating system. Two of the problems will be addressed in this […]

Windows Directory Analyzer

Windows Directory Analyzer is a software program that can help analyze and manage files on the computer system. It provides options to scan a drive or folder for files to display them […]

Windows Explorer Tool TrayProdder

Tray Prodder is a Windows Explorer tool that adds two features that have been introduced in Windows Vista to previous versions of Windows. The two features in question are the ability to […]

BTF Sniffer Is The Ultimate Software To Reveal And Delete Traces

It does not happen very often that we review a software that does not come with an English user interface. The software would have to provide something that no equivalent software would […]

January 2009 Microsoft Security Bulletin

Microsoft has the habit of releasing security patches on one Tuesday each month. Time critical patches can be delivered out of schedule but that did not happen that often in the past. […]

5 Great New Features Of Windows 7

Do not worry. This article will not contain the same old blabla that most of the other Windows 7 toplist articles will mention. It will instead concentrate on five lesser known but […]

How To Burn Disk Images

It is surprising that many users who have downloaded the Windows 7 Beta release are having difficulties burning it on DVD. This article is supposed to act as a guideline for all […]

Multi Monitor Screensaver

Multi Photo Quotes is a screensaver designed for multi monitor computer systems - but working on one monitor systems as well - that can display images, quotes or a combination thereof. At […]

Windows Vista Shrink Volume Problems

Windows Vista comes with its own partitioning software that can be used to partition the connected hard drives. It can be accessed by clicking on Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer […]

Windows 7 Beta Download Without Limits

We have posted an article about the problems that were encountered during the initial Windows 7 Beta release on January 9. Users who wanted to download the beta on the release date […]

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Repair Defragment In Windows Vista

Defragment seems to make more problems in Windows Vista than it did in Windows XP. A recent test on a Toshiba notebook running Windows Vista Service Pack 1 revealed that a click […]

Microsoft Did Not Expect Such A High Windows 7 Beta Demand

You might have read that the first public beta release of Windows 7 was supposed to happen yesterday. If you followed the news on that day you might know that the beta […]

CD Audio Analyzer

Tau Analyzer is a CD audio analyzer that can determine if an audio CD has been produced using original sources or if there are signs if audio compressions in the audio files. […]

Keyboard Remapper KeyTweak

Keytweak is a keyword remapper that is compatible with all NT based versions of the Windows operating system including Windows XP, Windows Vista and even newer versions of the Windows operating system […]

Mount Remote FTP And Webdav Servers

NetDrive is a software to mount remote ftp and webdav servers that somehow has never been mentioned at Ghacks before. That's a rare occurrence especially if the software is well designed and […]

Rip DVD Movies

Oh noes, not another software program to rip DVD movies. Yes, there are mini different applications that can rip DVD movies. Some do not work with copy protected DVD movies while others […]

Monitor Computer Activity with Win Spy

The Windows operating system records all kinds of information when the computer is used. It records what searches are performed on the computer system, what programs are opened or saved, which urls […]