This is a incredibly handy little tip that I found over at APC Magazine. When you’ve been working on your computer for a day or two and it’s starting to slow down […]
Clean After Me is a new software by the well respected NirSoft developers. The application is as usual portable and can be executed right from its location. The main purpose of the […]
If you are looking for a software that checks hard disks for read errors and provides a visual representation of the process you might want to take a look at Ariolic Disk […]
Reble is a software for Windows that is providing a group of friends access to their combined music collection over the Internet. Think of a buddy system from an Instant Messenger with […]
If you have a Logitech mouse you are probably also using the Logitech SetPoint software to configure the different mouse buttons. Logitech Setpoint is a huge - the setup file is over […]
Interesting. That was my first thought when I read about Depeche View which loads all text documents, including html, php, log and several other file extensions of a selected directory and sub-directories […]
One Loupe is a tiny software program that can magnify parts of the screen when you run it on a Windows device. The program is fully portable and requires no installation on […]
Maximized windows usually cover the whole screen but the taskbar if it is configured to be permanently displayed. The main use of a maximized window is obviously the increased space for the […]
Samer reviewed a wonderful software at his website Freeware Genius today called Album Art Downloader and I would like to take the opportunity to review it as well. When I looked at […]
That is correct. If you’re one of those people, and I believe they are still around, who still likes the Windows XP Luna interface (that’s the lollypop blue one), then this is […]
Microsoft finally released the Security Bulletin for June 2008 that contains links to seven updates for various Microsoft products. The bulletin lists three critical, three important and one moderate update with only […]
Previewing all fonts installed on the system can have two benefits. The first is a quick overview of the installed fonts. The number of fonts installed on the system becomes immediately clear […]
Media Checker scans CDs, DVDs and folders for unreadable files. It actually could be the application to use before trying to recover those unreadable files with an application like CD Recovery Toolbox. […]
The Windows command line tool that can be accessed by typing cmd.exe in the run box or via the start menu or start screen of the operating system has not been changed […]
Microsoft did integrate search right across the operating system in Windows Vista but restricted access to Windows Search technologies only. Windows Search provided decent performance, but just wasn’t as fast or efficient […]
I'm not a huge fan of those visual tooltip applications no matter if they are integrated in the operating system or in other applications like Opera. The main reason for me personally […]
Tamir contacted me today per email describing how he was looking for an easy way to backup and restore the wireless network profiles. He actually discovered some netsh commands but nothing that […]
Replacing an older hard drive with less space with a new one that offers hundreds of additional Gigabytes can be a confusing task. How do you get the data from the old […]
File recovery from old media disks like CD or DVD might become a huge market in the near future. People using them to store important data, like family pictures, documents or videos, […]
Hotspot Shield is probably the only working free VPN solution that enables users from all over the world to access websites that provide their contents only to visitors from the United States. […]
Windows is creating a minidump whenever it's crashing. This minidump contains data that was stored in part of the memory. The interesting aspect of this procedure is that it's relatively easy to […]
Windows 7 will be the Microsoft’s 7th incarnation of their OS kernel, hence the name (yep, pretty clever). As it evolved with time each successive Windows release still contained many UI elements […]
Short question to get this article started: What is the main advantage of a circle based menu when compared to the usual rectangular menus in Windows ? Right, every menu entry is […]
Add-ins, Add-ons, Extensions and Plugins are a great way to extend the functionality of a product. The new features can be supplied by third party developers or by the initial developer. In […]
I discovered the application SMOz on the Make Use Of Website and decided to give it a try because my Windows start menu is already filling up with all kinds of applications […]
Backups are important. I'm not only saying this because of the three dedicated servers that I'm running on the Internet that host my websites which earn the money I'm living from. No, […]
Sysinternals Live Beta was announced yesterday. Sysinternals have developed highly acclaimed and useful software for Windows for a long time, they are the developers of Autoruns, Process Explorer, Process Monitor and dozens […]
It's been a while since I've compared various software update checkers and I felt that it was time to download and test the old applications and several new ones again for a […]
If you are running the Symantec products Norton Internet Security 2008, Norton SystemWorks 2008, Norton 360 or Norton AntiVirus 2008 on a machine with Windows XP Service Pack 2, and want to […]
What Microsoft has officially shown of Windows 7 is not much and their extremely tight-lipped approach has led to some confusion and false rumors in the past. The D6 Conference took place […]
Windows is not having the easy command line options to update the installed drivers or applications that Linux has. Many users forget to update their system drivers at all after installing them […]
If you are using Windows you know that you can move special folders, like the My Documents folder or Downloads folder, to another folder or even drive in Windows operating systems such […]
Desktop users will probably question why someone would need a shortcut to turn off the monitor when the button to switch it off is just a few inches away. It does not […]
If a company releases a product and a successor of that product a few years later and then a document comparing the features of both products; what would you expect from that […]
Many users think that replacing the Windows XP Bootskin, that is the graphic that is displayed during system boot, is a complicated process. That's actually far from the truth. Stardock have created […]
When I'm helping friends and family members who are not that tech savvy with their computers I always notice that they do not use keyboard shortcuts. Instead of doing the plain old […]
If you only want to print part of a web page, you have a couple of options on how to do so. It is for instance possible to highlight the area of […]
I'm not a huge fan of dashboards that take up valuable space on the monitor and I dislike the Windows Vista Sidebar mainly because of its inflexibility and resource consumption. Klipfolio on […]
There is still some confusion about the use of screensavers and I would like to explain it to those who do not know if it makes more sense to use a screensaver […]
If you have to access different networks with your notebook, say at home, work and at a friends house, you might have cursed the fact that Windows cannot save different network profiles. […]
