While not immediately obvious, the Add/Remove Windows Components allows you to double click particular entries: Double click Accessories and Utilities and you’ll see a sublist of Accessories and Games, which can also be double clicked to reveal even more specific … Continue reading
Control two networked computers with the same keyboard and mouse using Synergy, a free program available from SourceForge.net. It’s available for all platforms, but we’ll delve mainly into the Windows usage. Install the latest version for all the computers you … Continue reading
The latest version of Windows, Mojave Vista, is often criticized by others for being slow and having too many unnecessary features. We’re going to show you how to get several of Vista’s major features on XP – for free. We’re … Continue reading
Rather complicated simply to enable a quick feature: Right click on the Windows Media Player titlebar, select Tools, then select Options. Check the box that says Keep the Player on top of other windows. That’s it.
‘Print’ anything into a PDF file using PDFCreator, a convenient method of saving documents, webpages, and anything else that can be printed into PDF files. Download it here at pdfforge.org. When you install it, it’ll setup a ‘printer’ on your … Continue reading
While there exists a seemingly infinite number of ways to send files to your friends, Windows Live Foldershare takes the cake for being the most convenient — once you set it up, which can have its own quirks here and … Continue reading
As a follow up to our post on getting speech recognition for Windows XP (and 98, 2000), we’ve decided to write a series of tutorials on controlling your applications with it (The speech recognition is not as full featured as … Continue reading
Everyone knows about the Windows Wallpaper section in Vista, which is categorized by tags, unlike the rest of the sections presented in the Wallpaper dialog. This tutorial will go over how to add your own wallpaper to the Windows Wallpaper … Continue reading
Using a file from Microsoft’s Speech SDK, we can install both Japanese and Chinese speech recognition engines into Windows. This serves as a follow up to our previous post on getting speech recognition for free in Windows XP. Head over … Continue reading
Keeping all the software we have on a computer updated is a pain – open this program, check for updates, open this program’s updater – Secunia Personal Software Inspector takes the work out by profiling all your programs and then … Continue reading
