If you are a fan of XP, you can customize both Windows Vista and 7 so that they include a Windows XP style Alt + Tab switcher. The XP style alternative doesn’t include the thumbnails that are included in Windows Vista/7̵...
Most of the Windows desktop shortcuts include overlaying arrows. Although Windows doesn’t include any native options for removing them, you can still remove the shortcut arrows. To do so, add the freeware Windows Shortcut Ar...
Windows has a variety of shortcut keys for folders, Windows Explorer, system tools etc. These are 10 of my favorite Windows hotkeys. Most of them should work on all versions of Windows but some may only work on Vista or 7.
When you send a document to somebody, it’s not always guaranteed that it will include the same fonts. If the document’s recipient does not have its fonts installed, the document reverts to defaults. If retaining an MS Word d...
Are you searching for an option that will quickly close all your ope windows in Windows XP/Vista/7/8? If so you should add Close All Windows to the your software library. That is a program with which you can close all your open w...
The white Windows 7 Photo Viewer background might not always be ideal if the image displayed also has a white background. Photo Viewer does not have any options that change the background color behind images. However, you can stil...
You can add spreadsheet cell validation to highlight invalid data. If you add data validation to spreadsheets, invalid cell data is blocked. For example, to limit spreadsheet cells to numerical values only you can add data validat...
Grid colors can notably enhance spreadsheet formatting and layout. Most spreadsheet applications have at least a few options that you can add grid colors with. There’s a few ways that you can add grid colors to OpenOffice Ca...
Whilst the freeware OpenOffice suite has a spreadsheet application, you can also set up spreadsheet tables with its word processor. You can add formulas to the word processor’s tables much the same as a spreadsheet grid. Con...
A previous dotTech article covered how you can bring back classic DOS game titles to Windows. However, how about classic arcade games? For classic arcade games you should add MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulation) emulator to Wi...
OpenOffice spreadsheets display cell formula values by default. As such, the formulas you put in the spreadsheet are not entirely visible. However, there are a couple of ways you can display the cell formulas instead of their nume...
By default all text in the freeware OpenOffice word processor is horizontal. However, some might require document designs with alternative text directions, such as diagonal and vertical. You can change the OpenOffice text directio...
GNU Image Manipulation Program or GIMP for short, is a very powerful image editing tool. Let’s face it, we all need something to edit our pictures and we need something a little better than paint. Some people turn to Photos...
Recently I was browsing through a list of all of the applications that I use, some of them are not very popular but they are very useful. I needed away to cut-down the list and so I decided to list cross-platform applications only...
To change the monitor resolution, you would usually right-click the desktop and open the Display Settings window. However, you can change the resolution settings with keyboard shortcuts (aka hotkeys). As Windows doesn’t incl...
