SpeedRead is a free speed reading software for Microsoft Windows that supports a total of four different speed reading techniques. Speed Reading is a reading technique that increases the reading rate of […]
My main computer was turned on 294 hours and 15 minutes in the last three weeks which is an average of 14 hours per day. August 27 was the day with the […]
Svchost Viewer is a Windows program that has been designed to reveal the services behind specific svchost.exe processes on machines running Windows. The software program of choice to analyze processes is Process […]
Windows Live is rapidly maturing into a very real and competitive set of products. Each individual service isn’t the best solution, excluding Windows Live Writer perhaps, but it does have a huge […]
Users with many folders on their system may experience an annoying problem in Windows Vista which has already plagued many Windows XP users as well. Windows XP remembers the folder view settings […]
Windows XP users who update their system through automatic updates or the Windows update service might be in for a surprise. Microsoft has upgraded the company's Windows Genuine Advantage software for Windows […]
The Back to Basics series looks at common tasks and problems that Windows users might encounter on a daily basis and explains solutions and ways to do certain "things" on the system. […]
The Internet is full of optimization tips for reducing the boot time and making the computer boot faster. Many of the tips described have virtually no effect or even ill-effects. The Boot […]
Users who want to update their Windows operating system can use the automatic updates feature to download updates for Windows automatically, visit the Windows Update website in Internet Explorer or use one […]
Tiny Watcher is a free program for Microsoft Windows that monitors important folders, files and Registry locations on Windows machines. It is virtually impossible to keep an overview of all the system […]
I’ve always loved the ease in which multiple desktops are accessible in Ubuntu (and other Linux OS’s as well I presume, I haven’t tried any) and find myself wishing for the same […]
I reviewed Subtitle Download four months ago. Several new versions of this excellent software to download subtitles to your computer have been released since then and I thought it would be nice […]
If you want to extract the audio from a video file you got lots of options. You can load one of the classical video editing tools, use specific audio editing tools like […]
Are you bored of the system icons that Windows ships with? If you like to change the default Windows theme to a custom one you also might like to change the icons […]
It is not very healthy to work for hours starring on a computer monitor without taking breaks. Eye Defender was designed to prevent Computer Vision Syndrome; it can have all kinds of […]
You find lots of applications on the Internet that allow to slipstream service packs, patches and updates into a Microsoft Windows installation CD or DVD. This has a serious advantage the next […]
Windows Explorer can remember custom folder settings for each folder on the computer system up to a certain limit. Those saved settings include the display mode, the window position, the last modified […]
Microsoft just published Office Live Update 1.2 which improves the integration of Office Live with Microsoft Office programs. The four updates and tools that are installed by Office Live Update increase the […]
Microsoft has just released the security patches of the August 2008 Patch Day, a total of eleven updates for various Microsoft operating systems and products that are recommended updates. Six of the […]
The excellent registry cleanup tool Quicksys RegDefrag is now available in version 2.0. It features a new registry scan algorithm, improved Windows 64-bit performance and multi-language support among other additions. The Registry […]
Circle Dock was another contribution to the Donation Coder Programming Challenge. It was an entry by Eric Wong who contributed not only this but another software program to the Challenge. Circle Dock […]
SuperScan is a free port scanning networking tool that has the primary purpose of scanning an IP range. It supports extremely fast Host Discovery lookups as well as TCP and UDP port […]
Not many users know that Windows Explorer is offering several options on how the folders and files are displayed. One useful Windows Explorer tip that I came across a while ago is […]
Windows XP does not offer a way to quickly switch between different service profiles. The only way would be to enable or disable all services manually which would be quite a lot […]
Uploading multiple files to file storage sites has already been covered in the past here at Ghacks but described a method to use a script on a website to spread the files […]
The Microsoft Office Suite is currently not supporting the Open Format (ODF), a file format for spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. Most users will probably have come in contact with […]
The page rank of a single page on a website can be identified through various means. Users can use the Google toolbar - or a similar product -, run website scripts that […]
A good DVD backup application lets you pop in a DVD, press a button and sit back to watch the copying process. DVD Smith Movie Backup is one of those. The free […]
Microsoft Speed Launch is a prototype application available at Microsoft Labs, the repository that contains applications created by Microsoft employees. Speed Launch is an applications launcher that can also launch websites and […]
Windows already comes with the subst command that can associated folders with virtual drives so that those folders appear with a drive letter whenever partitions and drives are shown in Windows. Most […]
Analyzing drive health with SpeedFan is a guest post by Rarst who is running his own tech blog Rarst.net, a blog about software and IT-related web resources. Definitely worth adding to a […]
Update: Newer versions of Windows support additional file details that you can add to Windows Explorer / File Explorer. Simply right-click on the listing header, e.g. next to name at the top […]
Software virtualization is a clever security concept that puts certain applications and files in something that can be described as a virtual room where they cannot harm the underlying system. The benefits […]
It's sometimes important to know when specific computer monitors have been manufactured because they, like every other computer components, are revised from time to time which may improve monitor quality. Monitor Info […]
Where did I backup that file again? If you have asked yourself this or a similar question you might need a Disk Catalog Software which keeps a record of the contents on […]
It seems that Lifehacker is having Ghacks week which I personally do not mind but the amount of articles that they referred to is large to say the least. You may know […]
I was never that fond of blog editors that allowed you to write your posts on the desktop and send them to your blog after you have finished them. Never quite saw […]
WikiTaxi takes Wikipedia offline by processing Wikipedia backups and providing a browser like experience. It works by downloading the article backup of the selected language from Wikipedia and importing that backup into […]
If you want to check system settings in Windows, you either have to dig deep into the operating system, use widgets to display them in the sidebar, or run other applications that […]
Music Assistant is a great tool that can help musicians doing two things that they probably do on a daily basis. The first is helping them tune their instrument while the second […]
