I don’t know about you, but I would rather stop eating for three days instead of having to reinstall Windows on my computer (currently, I use Windows XP and Vista Ultimate, but I spend most of my time using the good old XP, as most people I know do). Why am I saying this? Well, [...]

As storage space available to most PC users grows, so does the need to check for duplicate files, especially when your 1 TB drive seems to be full, and you only keep a few games and a lot of family photos on it. When I say “a lot of family photos,” you have no idea [...]

“I have a strange icon on my desktop. How do I open the file I just downloaded?” I am sure you heard something similar to this at least a few times, or maybe you asked yourselves about opening some file with a strange extension. Of course, you can easily use Google to search for details [...]

Sometimes, a program coming from some guy writing little tools can be more valuable than a shiny piece of code from a notorious company, and as long as this guy isn’t adding some evil code to its creations (spyware and stuff like that, obviously), his programs deserve to become well known to the world. Today, [...]

Since Windows XP came along, one new system process arrived, changing everything in its way. Unfortunately, we’re not only talking about positive changes here, since svchost.exe was used by viruses as a disguise for too many times. Of course there are also positive aspects of this problem, and we’ll get to see them below. I [...]

Each time I am asked about ways of speeding up Windows Explorer, I feel like beating up someone. Not necessarily the one asking, of course, because sometimes people simply don’t know some things, so I can’t blame them for not knowing about the plethora of excellent file managers that will make your life a thousand [...]

When my friends are asking for my help, they usually want me to do things the way the want. That would be nice, but they would end up asking for my help again in a few weeks, and I don’t want that. I usually enjoy spending some quality time with them, instead of reinstalling Windows [...]