As some of you may know, Windows 10 borrows many features from Windows Phone, such as Storage Sense and Battery Sense. Another feature that’s from the mobile OS finally appears in Windows 10 is system-wide text suggestion in on-sc...
If you have a huge collection of movies, on or off your desktop/laptop, you can keep track of them with a movie catalog (or database). Sure, a movie database could be set up with application software such as Access. However, with ...
If you have read the article about the cool new Start Menu features in Windows 10, then you probably have an idea of how Windows 10 looks. Whether you are a big fan of the new interface of Windows 10, or you are prone to using the...
Images can take up quite a bit of disk space. As such, compressing images is good way to free up disk storage if you have lofts of saved pictures. With the freeware VJC you can compress the JPG image format. To add the software to...
Windows 10 is now in the public testing stage which means new build coming out to testers – called Windows Insiders – every few months. At the time this article written, Windows 10 Technical Preview is at build 9879. I...
Windows has a user password page, but you can also add extra locks to your desktop or laptop with third-party software. The freeware security application Eusing Maze Lock is one that shows notable innovation. With Eusing Maze Lock...
Those who often use the MS Command Prompt can edit file attributes with it. For example, you can select attributes such as Hidden, Read-only and archiving for specific files by entering attribute switches in the Command Prompt. Th...
Being a public testing product as Windows 10 means new features change time to time; sometimes they couldn’t make it to the final version. One of the controversial changes in Windows 10 is the Home location. This location shows yo...
One of the best ways to free up disk space without deleting anything is to compress files. This article covered how you can compress MP3s. You can also batch compress PDF documents with ORPALIS PDF Reducer Free. ORPALIS PDF Reduce...
PNG image files can take up quite a bit of hard disk space. One of the best ways to reduce their file storage is to compress them. You can both convert and compress PNG images with the freeware PNGGauntlet. This is the PNGGauntlet...
Each of your drives in Windows have titles (or labels). However, you can add entirely new labels to the C drive and others. This is how you can do that with the MS Command Prompt. How to change the disk drive name or label in Wind...
As you know, Start Menu in Windows 10 is one of the most wanted features in this new operating system version. It’s a combination of the familiar Windows 7’s Start Menu and Windows 8’s Start Screen. Therefore, it’s expected that t...
Audio files can take up a few megabytes of disk space. So adding lots of them to your hard disk will hog quite a bit of storage space. However, with MP3 Quality Modifier we can reduce the bitrate of MP3s; and that will then reduce...
There are plenty of CD/DVD burner software packages that you can burn audio/picture files to writeable CD/DVD. However, few of those add shortcut options to the Windows Explorer context menu. To burn audio or pictures to CD/DVD di...
Multiple desktops is one many new features introduced in Windows 10. Although it’s only at the preview stage, there are great functions provided. For example, you can create lots of desktops to manage your windows. There is a keyb...
