Windows does not display folder sizes in Windows Explorer, actually those sizes are not displayed anywhere in Windows. Treesize is a solution for those users who want to find out which folders […]
A few years ago applications that would undelete files were not that common but this has changed tremendously over the last years. Today Windows users get to chose between several programs that […]
At the beginning of each month, when the new pc magazines are published, a flood of free commercial application posts hits the blogosphere. It is practically impossible to avoid these articles but […]
The Windows firewall in Windows Vista and newer versions of Windows cannot be disabled or enabled quickly. A user who wants to enable or disable it would have to open the Control […]
Microsoft Pro Photo Tools is a free application for the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows XP that provides functionality to edit the photo's metadata. Metadata are information that are automatically […]
You can automatically hide the taskbar in Windows so that it only becomes visible if you move your mouse over the area where it is hidden. This is extremely practical if you […]
Renaming multiple files can be quite a challenging task in Windows. It surely does not make much sense to rename hundreds of files manually, it would literally take ages to rename all […]
then you have come to the right article. If I would ask you to name five browsers, which would you mention ? Most likely Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari as the first […]
I seldom run into an application that is as hard to describe as Shell Enhancer. When you install the application you can configure some settings of it and I was really blown […]
The Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be released to the public tomorrow. A lot of users have already downloaded the service pack from various locations like download portals and the Bittorrent […]
Fileseek is another application developed by the creator of Display Fusion, one of the best multi-monitor wallpaper applications in existence. The software is a file search tool that can be seen as […]
Studio Twenty Eight is the homepage of designer Javier Ocasio who is offering his services and also some of his visual styles, wallpapers and icons on the site. Each category contains a […]
If you take a look at the online tutorials on DVD ripping you find some that require five or six different tools to rip a single DVD. Thankfully though it is possible […]
Did you ever run into a Vietnamese tool for Windows? I did just a few minutes ago. I read the article about Reg Toy at the Download Squad website and made the […]
It feels like I'm updating my computer every day in the last weeks. Microsoft issued yet another two security patches for Internet Explorer and the .net framework that can be downloaded from […]
There were basically two editions of Windows XP for home users, namely Home and Professional. While this was confusing for some it turned out to be a minor problem. When0 Vista launched, […]
Did you notice that operating systems tend to become similarly over time? It's the same in the browser war, if one browser introduces a unique feature it will be copied and added […]
Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008 is a free edition of Microsoft Office Accounting that is currently designed for small businesses in the United States and the United Kingdom. While there is no […]
While I'm not someone that likes transparent windows, I can acknowledge that some users might find transparency pretty useful. Blend is a tiny Windows application that can deliver transparency for all or […]
Environment variables are divided into system and user variables. They contain information about the path and its directories for instance. Those are the location that Windows looks for when it can't find […]
The Explorer Preview Pane in Windows Vista is only displaying the contents of several file types that have been added by Microsoft as the default file types. The contents of the file […]
A Windows Vista Feature Pack is basically an update to Windows Vista that adds new functionality to the Microsoft operating system. Those updates are normally included in the next full product release […]
I have to admit that I'm not much of a designer and that I have to rely on friends and people I pay to deliver designs for my websites. I mainly use […]
The MSN Messenger seems to be highly popular in Italy because this is already the second tool, the first was MSN Repair, that I'm reviewing that is fixing MSN Messenger errors that […]
If you experience slowdowns or poor network performance in Windows Vista like slow browsing performance occasionally or even all the time you may be connected to a router or network device that […]
My nephew is sometimes coming over and I would accept any bet that he is heading straight towards the computer pressing buttons and moving the mouse around if not supervised. This can […]
If you ever tried to change Windows system path variables then you may have cursed Microsoft for creating such a tiny form to edit them in as the editor Microsoft created offfers […]
Confirmation messages seem to be pretty unique to computers. Have you ever used a coffee machine that did ask you if you really wanted to start making coffee, an iPod if you […]
Avira AntiVir Personal 8 was released today and I thought it would be nice to write about this new release since AntiVir is one of the most popular free antivirus applications available. […]
MSN Repair is a small utility developed by the Italian software developer Valentino Marangi. MSN Repair 2 is the successor of the first version of MSN Repair which was already downloaded more […]
I'm not a huge fan of gadgets on the desktop. Does not really matter if they are implemented in the operating system or added by using a Widget engine. Placing gadgets on […]
It can happen that the tabs of the display properties are missing after installation of new graphics card drivers or a change of the graphics card itself. You may notice that only […]
If you ever tried to work in Windows NT systems as a limited user you surely have encountered wondrous things like having no permission to change the Windows clock and especially when […]
Watchcat is a tiny Windows application that can be run from any location on the hard drive. Its main purpose is to hide windows from the taskbar and alt+tab window switching display. […]
My parents are using their HP printer most of the time to print text documents but every now and then they also use it to print a picture they have shot with […]
A while ago I described how to add Windows Vista fonts to Windows XP. The method was very straightforward because Microsoft was supplying the fonts with a free software downloads so that […]
Moving the Windows taskbar from the bottom to the right side of the screen was probably the greatest layout change that I ever made or had to cope with since I started […]
If you ever have used Winamp you might have noticed how the different windows of Winamp snap when you move them close to each other. The windows are independent of each other […]
I published an article about Long Gone Icons in Windows before and walked you through a manual way of removing those icons from the system. Any icon that appears in the system […]
JavaRa is a small application for Microsoft Windows that serves two purposes. The first is to check if a Java update is available and if that is the case download and install […]
