Windows

Windows on Windows was bitten by memories of the monochrome days. So it introduced a handy tip to emulate a monochrome feel for your command prompt windows. Not good for anything practical, but hey, it’s still fun! Greg Shultz at TechRepublic tells us how:

Open a Command Prompt window.
Right the title bar and select the Properties [...]

If you play with Windows a lot, like me, you probably know that it is always a good idea to create a restore point. So, if something goes wrong you can just get back to the previous state as quickly as possible. Instead of going the traditional method (Start | All Programs [...]

Windows XP includes a feature to prevent unsigned drivers from installing on our machine. This is the case to most beta drivers that I install for my graphics card. It is very distracting to see the message that this driver is not signed and it is not secure enough. I found a way to get [...]

If you’re tired of people messing with your PC whenever you step way, it’s time to send them the right message. Don’t Touch My Computer Episode 2 is the fun filled sequel to our initial DTMC screen saver. In addition to a stream of fun animations that play out, the lovable dog does a whole [...]

If you are the kind of person who loves the Mac OS X interface very much, you should try FlyakiteOSX to see the impressive effects. You can change the look and feel of your Windows XP computer to be extremely similar to that of Mac OS X by installing the free FlyakiteOSX transformation pack. If [...]

If you feel that your YouTube videos are taking too much time to load because of your low speed Internet connection, you do not need to worry, because there is small utility that will help you overcome this efficiently. Speedbit Video Accelerator is a tiny piece of software that will help improve your experience with [...]

Sometimes the best way to keep people from prying into your personal folders is to keep the folders’ existence secret from the get-go. That’s easy to do with Cleanersoft.com’s Free Hide Folders.
The program lets you make any folder (and its subfolders and other contents) completely invisible with a just a little pointing and clicking. (Note: In [...]

mtExplorer is a minimalist multi-pane file explorer. I have tried quite a number of dual-pane and tabbed file explorers, but none of them could give me four to six Explorer panes simultaneously in a single window.
So I wrote mtExplorer, which can be configured to display 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6 Explorer panes at once. [...]

The start menu search box is one of my favorite features in Vista, but searching can be slow if you have a lot of personal files - by default the start menu search also searches files, Windows contacts, Windows mail, history, and favorites.
You can customize the search results returned in the start menu search box [...]

If Microsoft’s recent press reports are to be believed, Vista is a great success. This means Vista is selling twice as fast as Windows XP when was released in 2001. 20 million copies have been sold in the period from January 30 to February 28. The amazing fact is that Vista has sold more copies [...]