Windows has various system resources such as RAM and CPU which are among the most notable. That’s why they are a key system specification listed on software packages. Their usage varies depending on the amount of software you have...
Windows Media Center on Windows 7 and up has a variety of multimedia options. For photographs it includes photo slideshow options. However, few might have guessed that it can also be an effective image editing tool, with options f...
If you right-click the Windows 7, 8, 8.1 Recycle Bin on the desktop, you won’t find any Pin to Taskbar option as you would with other shortcuts. However, you can still pin the Recycle Bin to the Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 taskbar. This...
Windows 7 includes variety of wallpapers and themes for you to choose on the Personalize window. However, there’s a much wider variety of international themes and wallpapers that you can add to the Windows 7 desktop. Only your own...
The Windows 7 Start orb isn’t one that you can readily customize. Windows 7 doesn’t include any options with which you can switch to alternative Start menu orbs. However, you can change the Windows 7 Start orb to other alternative...
When searching for a similar page to the one you have open, precise search engine keywords are usually essential. However, that is no longer so! Now you can bypass search engines with the Google Similar Pages in Action extension f...
The Windows 7 logon background is the wallpaper behind your Windows 7 user account password box. Windows 7 does not include any direct options to change the logon wallpaper in the same way as the desktop. However, with suitable so...
The Command Prompt is the antiquated DOS in a window. You can open the Command Prompt from Run. Open Run and then input Command Prompt to open its window. From there you can input DOS command to open software and documents. Comman...
Would it not be great if Chrome included thumbnail previews of your tabs? The thumbnails would then provide small previews of the tabbed pages. Well, that’s exactly what the Visual Tabs extension adds to the Chrome browser.
Most browsers now include tabs, but Windows Explorer — aka browsing files, folders, and drives in Windows — has yet to embrace tabs. However, with suitable software you can add tabs to Windows Explorer as well. Read on...
You can add a Control Panel shortcut to the Windows Vista, 7 or 8/8.1 desktop context menu (right-click desktop to open). However, the Control Panel is not a file, software package or website. As such, a few registry tweaks are re...
One of the great ways to showcase your photos is with CDs and DVDs. Picasa 3.9 includes a Gift CD option which adds a photo slide show to the CD. Add Picasa 3.9 to Windows or Mac OS X from the Picasa website, and then open it up. ...
The Window Recycle Bin is not a recycling bin for nothing. Deleted documents fall into the Recycle Bin where you can recover them. This is intended to allow you to easily restore files if you ever have second thoughts or if you ev...
When you add lots of shortcuts to your Windows desktop they can get a little disorganized. Sure, you can sort them by name, type and size, but that often isn’t enough. However, with 8Startlauncher you can organize the icons ...
Sure, you can manually customize each of the shortcuts on the Windows 7/8/8.1 taskbar and Start menu. However, there’s a quicker way to change them all in one go. This guide shows you how you can change Windows 7/8/8.1 taskbar ico...
