The more music files you add to your collection, the more time will be required to clean out any duplicates that might sneak in. As such, check out the Similarity software package. With that you can quickly scan for and delete a v...
The battery icon at the bottom right is tiny. It would be better to have a larger battery bar that makes the battery status clear. You can add exactly that to Windows Vista/7 with the freeware BattCursor software. Add the software...
Into the second public beta, Windows 10 has brought so many brand new features. It’s interesting that some of them were originally introduced in Windows Phone. This happened because Microsoft’s trying to create one Windows that ru...
If you often set up new folders and subfolders, New Folder Wizard might be a handy software package for you. New Folder Wizard is a program with which you can set up a batch of new folders. With it you can set up thousands of fold...
A mosaic is an art of creating images with an assemblage of colored stone or glass. You can add mosaic effects to your own images with Paint.NET. That includes a Mosaic plug-in which generates mosaic effects. You can add Mosaic to...
There aren’t many image viewers that have full keyboard functionality. Sure, most might include a few hotkeys; but they get cluttered up with other options. For a full keyboard image viewer check out Keyboard Image Viewer. K...
The ability to pin something to Windows’ Taskbar was first introduced in Windows 7. However, it feels limited since you can only pin programs, shortcuts, and webpages. In Windows 8.1, you can pin Store apps. Pinning things l...
There are various file archive formats such as TAR, BZA, ARJ and GZA. Although Zip is probably the most standard archive format for compressed files. You can convert Zips, and other archive files, to alternative formats with the A...
Windows Powershell is comparable to the MS Command Prompt. It consists of a command-line shell based on the .NET Framework. In addition, you can also customize the Powershell window with a few options. How to customize Windows Pow...
Finally, Windows supports touchpad gestures universally. By saying “universally,” it means every device with multi-touch trackpad is able to recognize touch gestures in Windows 10. Previously, PC makers get this feature with their...
As you know, Windows 10 brings dramatic changes to both the Desktop and touch environment. Start Menu is gone on non-touch device, Store apps run in framed windows, etc. That’s why it took me a lot of time to figure out how ...
Wouldn’t it be great if you could add document and folder shortcuts to Open file windows? Then you could select to open documents from a favorite list instead of going through the folders. Well, you can do exactly that with ...
Since the first build of Windows 10 Technical Preview (TP), there has been many changes to newly added features. One of them are Search and Task View buttons on the Taskbar. Search button will simply launch Bing search app and Tas...
The freeware Paint.NET has a plethora of editing options, and you can add more with plug-ins! Among the plug-ins you can add to Paint.NET is TR’s Snow Flake Maker. That’s a plug-in that adds snow flake effects to pictu...
Windows keeps various MRU (Most Recently Used) lists for documents and programs. For example, the Recent Items on the Start menu shows you recently opened documents. You can erase those lists with the freeware MRUClear utility. Yo...
