Some laptops and computers have a built-in one key system recovery program or partition. This helps you restore your damaged system to its previously backed up state, often back to “factory settings” (aka restoring you...
Do you play mobile Android games? How about use Android apps? If you don’t have an Android device, you can now download and use Android apps and play Android games on Windows. You can do that with the freeware BlueStacks And...
Here’s a trick that merges Zip files with images. Images are read from the header down, and Zip files are read from the footer upwards. As such, you can merge them into one single file with the Command Prompt. First, you wil...
OpenOffice Writer includes a hyperlink option like many of the alternative word processor software packages. Whilst you can add links to documents with the Hyperlink button on the toolbar, there’s a better, quicker way to ad...
When you remove software from your desktop or laptop, empty folders might be left behind. Consequently, there are a number of utility packages that include options for locating and deleting empty folders. Among them is the freewar...
Previous articles have covered how you can add shortcuts to the Windows desktop’s right-click context menu. However, the articles haven’t mentioned how to add cascading menus (otherwise submenus with arrows) to the con...
By default Windows Vista, 7 or 8 doesn’t show all file extensions in Windows Explorer. As such, known file type extensions such as mp3, txt, avi etc aren’t shown after the titles. However, Windows Explorer does include...
OpenOffice is a flexible freeware software package. As such, there are a few ways that you can customize the software suite’s toolbars. You can add new options to the toolbars, new toolbars and select alternative icons for t...
AOL shut down the Winamp media player in December 2013. It was once one of the best and widely used media players. The VLC Media Player is also one with plenty of options, and can play almost all media types. You can also add a Wi...
Duplicated files can take up quite a bit of space on your hard disk. There are numerous software packages that you can find and delete duplicate files with. Among them is the Easy Duplicate Finder utility, which is a freeware pack...
The Windows XP System Properties window was one that included tabs for hardware, system restore etc. You can partly restore the classic Windows XP System Properties window on both Windows Vista and 7. Then you can open that XP Sys...
Directory listings show all the files, and file details, within a specific folder. If you require some directory lists in spreadsheets or text documents, check out the Directory List and Print software. This is a freeware utility ...
If you’re sending documents to somebody who doesn’t have PDF viewers or office software, how are you supposed to share your PDF, Word or Excel files with them? Well, you could ask them to install a PDF viewer or office softw...
The Windows 7 taskbar doesn’t have a huge amount of transparency, even with the Windows Aero themes. Yet we can still enhance the transparency of the taskbar with Taskbar Transparency. That’s a portable application with which you ...
When you click on a folder in Windows Explorer to open it, it opens in the same window. An Open in New Window option would be a handy addition to the folder context menus. This is how you can add that option to folders’ righ...
