My past years of experience in maintaining computers, both of mine and my friends has taught me that people are not very aware of SpyWare. Agreed that this is a lot better than a few years back when spyware was just beginning to raise its ugly head.
We have several spyware tools (which I shall look [...]
Internet Explorer 7 is indeed one of the better releases of the browser. It corrected a lot of things and made is developer and userfriendly. The best addition to the browser was the Tab Browsing. I would have loved to have more features like adblocking and mouse gestures, but I guess that wasn’t meant to [...]
Two months back I introduced you to USBDeview, which you can use to list and manage all your USB drives.
This week we take a look at a similar but more powerful tool, Drive Manager.
Drive Manager will help you manage your hard drive, mapped network drives, thumb drives (USB memory sticks), smart media and compact flash [...]
As you continue to use your PC, the files get defragmented. The more the defragmentation, the longer it takes time for your operating system to fetch the files resulting in decreased performance.
Windows comes with an inbuilt defragmenter which you should run regularly to keep defragmentation levels low. However, the higher the defragmentation the longer it [...]
My extensive development and maintenance work requires me to work with a lot of code. The worst part of maintenance is keeping track of what changes have taken place. Most of the time I don’t need to worry about the software I am upgrading.
However, I need to worry about the same whenever I have modified [...]
At times you might like to have a drive mapped to a particular folder / subfolder. This situation could arise if say you copied the cotents of a CD on your drive and the setup requires to have be run from a drive directly and not via the folder.
In such a situation the DOS SUBST [...]
Those who have been reading this blog regularly would have realized that I love tiny pieces of free / open source software.
One such piece of software is StripMail.
You will notice that many forwarded emails usual have broken paragraphs and plenty of line breaks. Still others have irritaing “>” signs at the start of every line.
More [...]
A simple utility that can unlock 43 Windows utilities you seldom hear about. All these programs can be accessed via RUN in the Start Menu, but it helps having the shortcuts embedded in the Start Menu, which this software achieves.
Some of the applications include:
Dr Watson diagnosis
Direct X diagnosis
Registry Editor
Telnet Client
Windows Services
Device Manager
Computer [...]
Continue reading about Tip Thursday: 43 Hidden Applications Unlocked
Over the period of time as you use your PC, you will connect several USB devices to it. These can vary from simple memory sticks and flash drives to music players, mobile phones, cameras and other devices.
All these devices on their install leave a print on your operating system. What do you do when you [...]
When my Dad was down this time, he brought along his iPod Nano. I already have an iPod 30Gb and so didn’t want to use his iPod Nano with iTunes. I searched around for some software that would let me manage the iPod.
I stumbled upon EphPod, which is an iPod managing application for Windows.
Their summary [...]
