Windows

Its designation being a reference to its maliciousness (malicious intent), “malware” is essentially software that’s been designed for nefarious purposes, either to disrupt someone’s computer system or glean some type of information from it.  Part of the problem with malware of course is that it often remains largely invisible and/or...

Some have gone as far as to call it the best OS that Microsoft has produced to date and it’s easy to see why.  With a more intuitive interface and loads of fresh abilities all wrapped up in a more aesthetically pleasing package, Windows 8 is certainly an attractive addition...

Unlike the older times having one email address is no longer an option that many users would prefer. Plus having multiple accounts on same service provider needs an effort to launch more than 2 different browsers to access the accounts simultaneously. Google now provides the feature of logging into your...

If you’re stuck with a Windows machine and have always been jealous of how your friends with macbooks could simply swipe two fingers on their touchpad to scroll, you don’t have to feel sad anymore. There’s a program that will let you do just that! Two Finger Scroll is a...

Last week, I’ve installed the latest version of Windows – Windows 7 on at least four different machines and was asked by one of the new and rather forgetful users that if he were to forget the Windows 7 product key, how would he find/trace it out again. I took...

Everyone knows the “New” submenu that is positioned in Windows Explorer’s right-click context menu. You use it to create a new folder, text file, image, spreadsheet, etc. However, sometimes this menu can get very crowded as you install more and more applications on your computer. ShellNewHandler lets your Customise Explorer’s...

Windows 7 was released a couple of months ago with a whole bunch of new features. Unfortunately, the power management leaves a lot to be desired. Power Plan Assistant 7 is a small tool for managing power consumption on Windows 7. Features Powerplan has a dynamic system tray icon that...

On Windows, we have Notepad – and many of us have often wondered why they couldn’t ship something that had more features than notepad does. There are a number of alternatives to Notepad out there, and a lot of them are too rich with features. But not Notepad GNU. Notepad...

So you’ve got this spanking new 500GB hard drive, and you excitedly start filling it up with things. But, after a week, it’s almost full! But you don’t understand what is taking up all that space. If you’re a bit of a Linux geek, you would have heard of the...

If you want to tweak every last thing on your Windows installation without touching the registry, you can use a number of tweaking tools. TweakMe is an easy-to-use, comprehensive and simple tool to tweak a wide variety of things without having to touch the registry yourself. TweakMe features TweakMe has...