Many families or companies have public computer. These computers may have several accounts on them for different users. Possibly even different setups for personal and work. Just because you have to share the computer doesn’t mean you can’t add a little flair to it. Awesome Logon Changer is well, an awesome way to spice up this screen a little.
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How-to Spice Up Your Windows Login Page
By | November 20, 2011 | 2 Comments
Free Download Manager Boosts Your Download Speed, Makes Your Downloads A Breeze
By | November 19, 2011 | 2 Comments
Many of us have fast internet connections as measured by overall total capacity, but rarely see maximum throughput. For example, I have a 100 megabit cable connection, but when I download a file via HTTP, I’m lucky to see more than 500KB/sec for that single file. Thankfully, there are ways to max out your connection.
Download managers open multiple streams to download the same file, and in doing so, get around limitations placed on the download speed. My favourite application to that end is Free Download Manager. There are two versions available on the website – a full featured version that offers a built-in bittorent client, video conversion and upload manager, and a “lite” version, that just has the download manager component. I only use the lite version, as I use µTorrent for my torrenting needs and have little use for an upload manager.
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4 Tips to Strengthen Your Windows Network
By | November 14, 2011 | 6 Comments
You’ve probably heard of how hackers easily infiltrate Windows networks of unsuspecting people. If you stick your head out of the water frequently and interact with other people on the Internet, you might also run the risk of being attacked at some point in time or another. By following a couple of tips, you can hold your own against those who want to harm you.
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Winyl Is The Ideal Music Player Alternative
By | November 13, 2011 | 5 Comments
There are a lot of options out there for music players. We have talked about a few music players for your computer and music players for your mobile devices. Winyl is a great replacement for a desktop music player.
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How to Move a Steam Game to Another Location
By | November 12, 2011 | 5 Comments
If you’ve just bought a fancy new solid state drive, you might want to move a select few games across for improved performance and loading times. You may also just be running out of space on your main drive and feel like relocating a game to a secondary hard drive. Unfortunately the guys at Valve Software have not been kind enough to let you move or install your games in different locations. Thankfully, there is a workaround for this dilemma. Basically we can move a game folder and then create a virtual link to it from its original location. That way we essentially “fool” Steam into thinking it hasn’t moved. Clever eh?
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4 Tips to Make Windows 7 Boot Faster
By | November 11, 2011 | 10 Comments
If you’re a hobbyist that runs a home server, or even a regular computer user that wants to get things done quickly, you will know how important it is to start Windows quickly. There’s nothing worse than having to restart a server and have your visitors tolerate 3 minutes of downtime. Add another 5 minutes of slow loading times until the computer’s fully loaded. When time is money, you really can’t be wasting any of it waiting for a computer to load.
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How to Fix An Upside Down Monitor Display [Windows]
By | November 7, 2011 | 3 Comments
You wake up in the morning, have a good long yawn, get out of bed, and check your email before going to work. You instinctively move your mouse down to the task bar only to find out that the mouse is moving up to an upside down task bar and your whole display turned over 180 degrees. Save yourself the neck pain of turning your head sideways. There’s a solution to this that’s much easier than bolting your desk to the ceiling.
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How to Prevent Windows 7 From Using So Much Memory
By | November 4, 2011 | 4 Comments
Picture this: You have a computer with two gigabytes of physical memory, you turn it on, and just after Windows 7 finishes loading, it’s already using about half of all that memory when you look into your task manager (hold “Ctrl + Shift + Esc” on your keyboard to access it quickly). Even if it looks a little scary, don’t panic!
What Gives?
In case you didn’t know, RAM (also known as physical memory), serves the purpose of storing pieces of every program you open. When you type “I’m Superman” into a text box in an open program, whether it’s true or not, each letter fills a space in your physical memory. This space can be deleted once you erase the phrase.
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24 Hrs Free Giveaway: VXSearch – Search Every Single File In Your Windows PC
By | November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Have you ever wanted to search that particular file, but can’t remember where it is located or the name of the file? VX Search is an application for Windows that can help you find that file quickly and easily, and yes, we have a giveaway. Read on for more detail.
VX Search is an automated, rule-based file search solution allowing one to search files by the file type, category, file name, size, location, extension, regular expressions, text and binary patterns, creation, modification and last access dates, EXIF tags, etc. Once you have performed a search, there are also ways to categorize and filter the search result and to copy, move and delete files right within the interface.
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5 Feature Rich Photo Editing Software For Windows
By | October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Everybody likes to take photos nowadays, but not everybody is a professional photographer. While I love taking photographs, most of my photos are not perfect and lack the elements of good photography like the light effect, color etc. I usually edit my photos before saving them to my library of photos. If you are professional enough and willing to cough out the money, Adobe Photoshop is definitely the best photo editing suite out there. For free alternatives that can do my job (simple photo editing) easily, here are 5 of them that you can use.
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