Detect Duplicates with Clone Spy
Clone Spy is a free portable application that can detect file duplicates in a number of ways and react automatically or after user input on the discovery of suc
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Find out why text on a website is not properly displayed
Whenever I visit Chinese websites I stumble upon strange characters that do not resemble Chinese at all.
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Control Windows Media Center with Keyboard Shortcuts
For those people who use Windows Media Center, it can be a pain to have to navigate around the program using the mouse, especially if you’re
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How to close multiple windows in the taskbar at once
New Explorer folders are always opened in a new window on my system because I think it's a comfortable way to work with folders and windows.
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Replace the Windows System Tray Clock
The Windows System Tray clock does not provide many ways to customize its appearance and format.
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Auslogics Registry Defrag
The Auslogics Disk Defrag software is a popular hard disk defragmentation tool and many users who like it will probably also find the company's Registry defragm
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Should you try Skype 4.0 Beta ?
Skype just recently the first beta of their new Skype 4.
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A Few Useful Tweaks
Since this is a subject we have touched on a couple of times recently I decided to share a a few useful registry tweaks.
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Windows Longhorn Blog
It may be a little late to be discussing leaks of Windows Longhorn seeing as the project was reset over 4 years ago and we are now looking at Windows 7 on [&hel
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5 Windows Tweaks That Do NOT Work
Information that is added on the Internet hardly ever go away which is highly problematic if the information is not correct.
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Speed up Vista
When I first got Windows Vista about 7 or so months ago it did seem to be pretty slow compared to Windows XP.
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Facebook Chat and Google Talk on the Desktop
Gabtastic provides desktop access to the chat applications Facebook Chat and Google Talk.
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Notepad++ 5.0 beta
Notepad++ has been my Notepad replacement for the last years and I have never looked back since I installed it on my first computer.
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NMIndexingService.exe
NMIndexingService.
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Laplink PC Mover Promotion
A problem that many users will face when they buy a new computer is that they have to find a way to migrate the data from the old computer to the new […]
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A Few Defragmentation Tools
My defragmenter of choice has always been Auslogic Defragmenter, I have no idea how effective it is compared to other programs but it’s simpl
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Don't Reset!
This is a incredibly handy little tip that I found over at APC Magazine.
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Clean After Me
Clean After Me is a new software by the well respected NirSoft developers.
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Scan your Hard Disk for Read Errors
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 Ar
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Listen to your Friend's music with Reble
Reble is a software for Windows that is providing a group of friends access to their combined music collection over the Internet.
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Enable all options on all buttons in SetPoint
If you have a Logitech mouse you are probably also using the Logitech SetPoint software to configure the different mouse buttons.
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Browse all text files in a folder at once
Interesting.
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Magnify the Screen with One Loupe
One Loupe is a tiny software program that can magnify parts of the screen when you run it on a Windows device.
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Create No-Go Areas for Maximized Windows
Maximized windows usually cover the whole screen but the taskbar if it is configured to be permanently displayed.
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NOT Another Vista Transformation Pack
That is correct.
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Microsoft Security Updates for June 2008
Microsoft finally released the Security Bulletin for June 2008 that contains links to seven updates for various Microsoft products.
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Get Previews of all installed fonts
Previewing all fonts installed on the system can have two benefits.
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Check Media for Errors
Media Checker scans CDs, DVDs and folders for unreadable files.
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Console 2 a better cmd.exe
The Windows command line tool that can be accessed by typing cmd.
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Changing the Default Windows Search
Microsoft did integrate search right across the operating system in Windows Vista but restricted access to Windows Search technologies only.
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Visual Tooltip
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.
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Wireless Migrator
Tamir contacted me today per email describing how he was looking for an easy way to backup and restore the wireless network profiles.
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HD Clone
Replacing an older hard drive with less space with a new one that offers hundreds of additional Gigabytes can be a confusing task.
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CD Recovery Toolbox
File recovery from old media disks like CD or DVD might become a huge market in the near future.
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Fix Bandwidth Exceeded in Hotspot Shield
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
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Analyse system crashes
Windows is creating a minidump whenever it's crashing.
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Started something too big
Windows 7 will be the Microsoft’s 7th incarnation of their OS kernel, hence the name (yep, pretty clever).
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Orbit provides a circle based menu for Windows
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, e
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Microsoft Word Article Authoring Add-in
Add-ins, Add-ons, Extensions and Plugins are a great way to extend the functionality of a product.
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Organize the Windows Start Menu
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
