Windows Media Player has a variety of plug-ins that you can add to it. Among them is the Lyrics Plugin that adds lyrics to Windows Media Player. So when you play the song in Windows Media Player, the lyrics are shown in the Now Pl...
Windows Sticky Notes are a handy accessory that you can stick notes to the desktop with. Although it might seem that they have little in the way in formatting options, there are, in fact, many ways that you can format them. For ex...
Aero is the glass effect in Windows Vista and 7 that you can select to turn on/off from system properties. However, you can set up an Aero On/Off shortcut in Windows. With this registry tweak you can add Aero On/Off options to the...
Keeping backups will ensure that you don’t lose files. As such, there are a multitude of utilities you can set up backups with. Not many of those utility packages include options to schedule backups with. Cyoteck CopyTools i...
As Microsoft starts pulling Windows and Windows Phone (WP) together, we already have seen so many features from WP that made their way to Windows 10. With that being said, the latest one in Windows 10 TP build 9926 is Offline Maps...
The Windows Start Menu includes a user account picture at the top. Windows doesn’t include any option to remove the user account picture, but you can still do that with Classic Shell. That’s a software package which in...
Let’s just say that you took a screenshot or photo. You want to share your photo on a website with public access but you do not wish to reveal any of the sensitive data included in your photo (ex. name, address, bank account numbe...
In the effort of uniting the traditional desktop and Modern UI, Windows 10 build 9926 makes some significant changes to the familiar desktop. The new Settings app is a great example. There is basically no more Control Panel; Micro...
Windows 7 has a good selection of bundled games that you can open from the Games folder on Start Menu. However, it does not include the 3D Pinball and Inkball games that were usually bundled with other Windows platforms. Neverthel...
By now, most of us are well aware of the new malware that’s been found in Lenovo-based computers called Superfish. Superfish is as the name suggests, and works swiftly to create it’s own security loophole after travell...
Unless you have been living under a tech-rock, you have probably heard about the Superfish malware that’s recently come about for Lenovo devices. The first thing to understand is that it doesn’t extend outside of the L...
If you want Adobe Reader to automatically remember that last PDF page that you’ve viewed or read, all you need to do is to update its preferences. It’s a very simple thing to do but also really useful. It will definitely come in h...
Although Cortana has a great potential in Windows 10, some of you may still don’t want to have it enabled. Or maybe you just like to hide its search box to free up some space on the Taskbar. In this short article, I’ll show you ju...
The ZX Spectrum was among the first home computers dedicated to gaming. Now you can revive some ZX Spectrum nostalgia with emulator software for Windows. In addition, there are also websites from which you can run Spectrum games w...
By default, the Windows 7 icons are placed on the left of the taskbar. Windows 7 doesn’t have any options to center those taskbar icons. However, you can center the taskbar icons with TaskDock. You can add TaskDock to Window...
