Confirmed: Windows 10 Home users to receive forced updates
About two months ago rumors came up that updates could become mandatory for machines running editions of Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system.
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What you need to know about Windows 10's Game DVR feature
Microsoft's operating system Windows 10 ships with game DVR capabilities that some Windows users can make use of to record in-game videos.
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Idle Master for Steam gets you card drops for games you have not installed
Idle Master is a free program for Microsoft Windows operating systems that gets you trading card drops for games that you own but don't play or have not install
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How to remove unused preferences from Firefox's about:config page
Many extensions that you install in Firefox add one or multiple preferences to the browser to control various settings.
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Is Microsoft Edge really the fastest Windows 10 web browser?
Microsoft pushed out Windows 10 build 10240 yesterday to Windows Insider users which is the RTM build of the operating system.
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Newsbin Pro 6.60 launches with huge improvements
Newsbin Pro is probably the commercial program that I have been using for the longest.
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These Firefox features could be part of Mozilla's Great or Dead Initiative
Mozilla announced a while ago that it plans to improve the quality of the Firefox browser through a new initiative that it called Great or Dead internally.
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HWiNFO with remote monitoring
HWiNFO remote monitoring is a feature allowing you to track PC hardware sensors (temperature, usage, fan speeds) from one computer on another machine over a loc
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How to make Firefox or Chrome the default browser in Windows 10
Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system ships with Microsoft Edge as the default browser.
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Hooks for Android notifies you about anything
Hooks is a free application for Android devices that you configure to receive custom alerts and notifications for things you are interested in.
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Tab Origin for Firefox ensures you can always return to pages you came from
Tab Origin is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that provides you with the means to return to pages you came from even if you have closed them already.
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Microsoft Fix It to improve Windows performance
Microsoft released a Fix It solution for all current versions of Windows that diagnoses the performance of the system to improve it if issues are found during t
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Microsoft Security Bulletins For July 2015
Welcome to the July 2015 patch overview that reviews all security and non-security patches that Microsoft released this month for Microsoft Windows and other co
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Questions Microsoft needs to answer before the Windows 10 launch
Microsoft Windows 10 will be released in two week's time to Windows Insiders and users who have accepted the free upgrade promotion that Microsoft ran on Window
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Some versions of Opera promote SurfEasy VPN now
Norwegian company Opera Software acquired the virtual private network service (VPN) SurfEasy back in March 2015.
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Mozilla blocks all versions of Adobe Flash in Firefox
Mozilla has added all versions of Adobe Flash up to the most recent version 18.
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How to improve KeePass security
KeePass is my password manager of choice as it ships with everything I require and uses a local database to store passwords instead of an online one.
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Manage Windows tasks with TaskSchedulerView
TaskSchedulerView is a new application by Nirsoft that allows you to manage all Windows tasks in an easy to use interface.
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Windows 10: accessing program-specific volume controls
Microsoft modified how system tray controls such as Volume work in recent builds of Windows 10.
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FTP Support may be dropped in Firefox and Chrome
A recent Chromium bug listing indicates that Google is considering removing built-in ftp support in the Chrome web browser.
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Your photos may still sync with Google after removing the Photos app on Android
Sometimes, there is disparity between what designers and developers think is best or clear, and what users who use the product believe.
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What you need to do if Firefox is not automatically updating anymore
The Firefox web browser is configured to check for and install updates automatically by default.
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Startup Patrol: manage and block autostart programs on Windows
Whenever you install a program on Windows or update one, there is a chance that you end up with one or even multiple startup entries.
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NetStalker checks and notifies you of Internet connections in real-time
Do you know which programs and processes access the Internet on your computer and why? While it is easy enough to tell for programs that won't really work witho
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Popular password manager 1Password gets WiFi Sync option
Most online password managers require that Internet servers are being used for most of its functionality.
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Garbage Collection improvements in Firefox improve memory usage
Mozilla introduced Garbage Collection in Firefox 38 that improves memory management of the web browser as part of the organization's ongoing effort to bring mem
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Optimize tabs in Firefox with Classic Theme Restorer
Classic Theme Restorer is a popular extension for the Firefox browser.
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NoScript Tip: Check the whitelisted sites listing
NoScript is a powerful security add-on for the Firefox web browser that blocks the execution of scripts on websites and includes additional security features th
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Which Firefox features would you like to see removed and which polished?
Mozilla published a blog post about a week ago on the official blog of the organization which was entitled "what to look forward to from Firefox".
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Wallpapers Bot brings thousands of wallpapers to your system
Thousands of sites on the Internet offer free wallpapers which make dedicated wallpaper programs for operating system something that most users don't require to
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Sumo Software Updates Monitor review
Sumo, the Software Update Monitor, is a popular program when it comes to running automated checks for software that is out of date on machines running a flavor
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LastPage displays internal Firefox pages at the bottom of the browser
As a Firefox user, you known probably that you can display the browsing history or bookmarks in a sidebar in the web browser.
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Look up domain information with WhoisCL for Windows
WhoisCL is a free portable program for Windows that you run from the command line to look up Whois information of domains.
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My Last Search reveals what you searched for on the Internet
My Last Search is a free portable program for the Windows operating system that retrieves and displays the search history of popular browsers on the system.
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Why it pays to read the privacy policy before you sign up for a service
I browse the Firefox add-on store regularly to find out what is new and updated.
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Newsbot for Chrome: get related news and follow as stories unfold
The Chrome extension Newsbot made the rounds on Product Hunt earlier today and I decided to take it for a spin.
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Windows 10 Bug: DoSVC files occupy all hard drive space
So I started my PC running Windows 10 as usual and noticed on Steam that there was an update for Team Fortress 2 available.
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Microsoft details which features Windows 10 Home and Pro users don't get
If you plan to buy Windows 10 when it comes out, either retail, as a system builder copy or through a PC or tablet, you have the choice between Windows 10 Home
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Firefox 39: Find out what is new
Mozilla planned to release Firefox 39 on Tuesday but a last minute bug in the application required fixing so that the release has been delayed for later this we
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Medium launches password-less sign ins: good or bad?
The publishing platform Medium announced today that it has improved sign-up options for users of its service.
