Drop shadow is an effect that adds shadows to text. The freeware Paint.NET doesn’t include any drop shadow options. However, you can still add drop shadow effects to text with the Paint.NET Effects plug-in. To save the plug-...
Windows includes a Character Map from which you can copy and paste characters or symbols not included on the keyboard into documents. For a better way to enter characters and symbols, check out the WinCompose software. That enable...
Editing the registry is a great way to customize Windows. However, the registry editor in Windows could do with a few extra options. A bookmark tool for bookmarking registry keys would be handy, and it would be great if you could ...
Another post discussed how to merge text documents together. You can also do the opposite and split txt files with Chopping List. That’s a program that splits txt files based on custom delimiters. This is the Chopping List p...
Search And Replace is software that you can search & replace specific text in documents with. Instead of deleting and entering text in the document yourself, you can quickly search and replace text strings without opening the ...
Splat is a freeware app that you can set up profiles with without setting up new Windows account profiles. You can set up profiles that have triggers for launching or closing programs and background services. Each profile can incl...
In Windows 10 build 9926, there is a new feature called Battery Saver. As its name suggests, this feature will help you squeeze out some juice for your device at a specific low percentage of battery. It does this by reducing backg...
A batch file is a script file executed by command line interpreter. With AutoStater X4 you can set up batch files that open software, files and website pages. The batch runs all the items in a specified sequence. You can save the ...
There are various third-party image viewers available for Windows. Most will probably include search, tag and slideshow options. However, few of those can boast 3D effects comparable to the Visions image viewer. That’s an im...
This article told you about the Lyrics plug-in for Windows Media Player. That shows you the lyrics for songs in Windows Media Player. To find lyrics for an MP3 without a media player plug-in, check out Lyrics Finder. Lyrics Finder...
If you copy and paste some tables from a website into an Excel spreadsheet, they might include hyperlinks in them. To remove the hyperlinks, you could delete them and then re-enter the text. However, there’s a couple of shor...
If you’re drafting a Word document that includes images, you can alter the layout of the text so that it wraps around the pictures. Wrapping the text around images will remove empty spaces from the page that would be left if you a...
Most of Excel’s graphs have gridlines. The gridlines highlight data points on the charts. You can customize Excel graph gridlines from the Chart Tools tab. First, select a few numbers on an Excel spreadsheet. Click Insert an...
If you often open the same software packages, it might be handy to set up a schedule for them. You can set up a schedule for the software to open at specific dates and times with Freebyte Task Scheduler. That’s a freeware pr...
Windows 7 has a variety of bundled apps, and you can also add a few more that Microsoft removed from the OS. Windows Movie Maker, Windows Calendar and ClipBook Viewer are three apps bundled with XP and Vista. You can also add them...
