Renaming a file is as simple as hitting F2 on your keyboard. Well it is all good unless you have ten or twenty or more files to rename.
Short for Peter’s Flexible RenAmiNg Kit, PFrank is a bulk file/folder renaming program that lets you can easily organize your music, picture, video, or any other [...]
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When you are working on your computer and installing a new program, the installation suddenly fails. Now you are left with a partly installed program.
You try to install the program again, but you are unsuccessful. Or, maybe you have problems trying to remove an old program because the installation files are corrupted.
This is where Windows [...]
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ISODisk is a FREE and powerful ISO disk image file tool. It allows you to create upto 20 virtual CD/DVD drives, mount an .ISO disk image and access the files on it as if it were burned to CD or DVD.
You can also quickly create an ISO image file from CD/DVD-ROM. Once you map the [...]
Microsoft has been using “Windows 7″ as the codename for its new operating system for quite a while now. However, yesterday Mike Nash, Corporate VP, Windows Product Management announced that this will be the name of the next version.
The decision to use the name Windows 7 is about simplicity. Over the years, we have taken [...]
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Imagine the situation that you are running Windows Vista and need to run XP or even Linux. Well, you have two options before you, viz. install Linux or XP as a dual boot or run it within your Operating System as a virtual machine.
There are two free softwares available that achieve the second purpose, viz. [...]
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One of the main reasons I disabled User Aaccess Control was the extremely irritating popups that interrupted even the most mundane of tasks.
I guess, I’m not the only one and Microsoft has learnt from the experience!
Based on what we’ve learned from our data and feedback we need to address several key issues in Windows [...]
If you are using Windows, the number of shortcuts that Windows presents you is phenomenal. You even have the option to create your own shortcuts to launch applications.
Here are ten shortcuts that can improve productivity:
Windows Key + R
Open the Run window
Windows Key + F
Open the search window
Windows Key + E
Open Windows Explorer
Windows Key + 1, [...]
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A secret to keeping your computer smoothly is to perform regular maintenance on your computer. Last week we covered ten tools to defragment your hard disk. Besides defragmenting, you should regularly clean all temporary files. Cleaning all these files manually can be quite a pain. So, here are some tools that can assist you to [...]
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I love software. I make sure I track regular releases and have identified several sites that help me do so. Below is a list of seven file repositories and software directories that I use.
Freeware Files
As the name suggests, Freeware Files is the place to get completely free and open source software. You won’t find any [...]
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Yesterday, I covered five of my favorite multimedia players. Today I’ll cover ten Windows tools that you can use to defragment your hard disk.
You need just one. So, take your pick!
Contig
Contig is a single-file defragmenter that attempts to make files contiguous on disk. Its perfect for quickly optimizing files that are continuously becoming fragmented, or [...]
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