The Windows Vista Quick Launch bar added small shortcuts icons to the left of the taskbar. Windows 7 phased out the Quick Launch bar with pinned taskbar shortcuts, but you can still restore it on Windows 7. A little customization ...
Though a decent operating system, Windows 8 comes with some pretty stupid and useless programs Reminders, Maps, Travel and etc). Most people will never use these apps. Curious how to remove them? This guide will show you how! Let...
When you right-click a file or folder in Windows Explorer, a context menu opens with various shortcuts and options. They can include a multitude of shell extensions such as Scan with AVG and Find Empty Folders with Glary Utilities...
The user account picture is the one at the top of the Windows Start menu. Windows has a few default account pictures, and you can add your own as well. You can also add your own pictures to the list of default images, and delete t...
The previous articles in this three-part series covered setting up database tables and adding forms for them with OpenOffice Base. However, you can still add more to it such as database reports which give a more specific overview ...
Watermarks are faded background text in a document that indicates its status. For example, watermarks might include text stating DO NOT COPY or COPYRIGHTED. If you have a document with a specific status that should be noted, add w...
The Windows Explorer 7 and 8 library icons are not icons which you can customize in the same ways as more standard folders. Nevertheless, with suitable software you can still change the library icons to other alternatives. The sui...
This dotTech article covered customizing screens savers. Would it not be great if you could add shortcuts for them to the Windows desktop? Then you could play them any time instead of waiting for them to reach their periodic inter...
In part one of our guide on how to setup OpenOffice Base database, we covered how you can set up the tables for a software database. Of course, you can input software records directly into those database tables; but it’s bet...
The freeware OpenOffice spreadsheet application, which you add to your Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, Mac OS X or Linux software library from this website, is one with a variety of formatting options. Among them is a conditional fo...
You can add a variety of new options to the Windows XP/Vista/7/8 right-click context menus by tweaking the registry. Among the options that you can add to the Windows Explorer context menus are Copy To Folder and Move To Folder. B...
Those who add software to their PC or Mac willy-nilly might lose track of some of the software they have installed. Would it not be great to have a database which you can open to find the location of all your installed software? T...
Google’s ChromeOS is getting increasingly popular. Last year, 21% of all laptops sold ran Google’s OS. Recently Google has added the ability to run it right inside Windows 8. Some speculate that the Internet titan has ...
Have a productivity problem within windows yet only one screen? Own an Android tablet? If so, the answer is right under your nose. Using the iDisplay Android app will enable you to turn your tablet into a second monitor. Before We...
Ever had a situation where you wished you could print out a list of all the contents of a folder or directory in Windows but couldn’t quite find any tool which could do that. Sure, hitting Print Screen and then pasting the c...
