One of the common problems Windows OS users face is unresponsive system, system breakdown or system freeze due to the installation of some error-prone programs and application tools. When a software program or application is unresponsive, users normally choose to terminate, stop or kill the problematic application using the Windows Task Manager. Terminating the application, however, might cause undesired results such as loss of data […]
Many music collectors may face difficulty to find their music files if the music tracks and songs collection are not properly organized and managed. TagScanner is one of the tools that can help users to organize and manage their music collection. It can edit tags of most audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames, and perform any transformations […]
Normally a image editing software is required to be downloaded and installed before a photo or picture can be resized, cropped, sharpen, converted to monochrome (black and white), added with border, or performed editing on characteristics of image such as on tint, contrast, exposure and color saturation. Microsoft Paint does not do the job nicely, and if you don’t want to install an additional program, […]
Even though you have multiple gigabytes of physical memory (RAM modules), Windows operating system, especially Windows Vista and Windows 7 is always hungry for more memory. And virtual memory is the free and easy resolution, by using a paging file stored on hard disk which can be used as if it’s RAM. However, virtual memory’s paging file, i.e. pagefle.sys with system and hidden attributes, takes […]
Windows Vista comes with a built-in weather gadget for Windows Sidebar, which display local temperature and weather condition directly on desktop. However, since the RTM of Windows Vista, even after release of Windows Vista SP1 and beta availability of Windows Vista SP2, the weather gadget does not work on system installed with non-US locale or location.
When reading Windows related articles on My Digital Life, especially when dealing with new releases been published by Microsoft, be it at alpha, pre-beta, beta, release candidate (RC), release-to-manufacturing (RTM) or another other stage of development, there tends to be a build version number that been tagged with the code bits or the ISO images. For example, Windows 7 Beta 1 has the build number […]
Microsoft started to implement Windows Product Activation (WPA) scheme in Windows XP in order to reduce the piracy rate of Windows operating system. WPA requires all installed copy of Windows from XP version onwards, including Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003/2008 to activate their copy of OS in order to use the full featured system without interruption. For technically advanced enthusiasts who want […]
One of the most annoying experience when using Windows operating system is unable or cannot delete or remove files and folders that supposed able to delete. When a file is in used or accessed by running program, or a folder that contains file that been accessed, opened, written or used by other user or program, Windows will fail to delete or remove the file or […]
Usually when one download a file from the Internet, web browser such as Firefox will prompt for location to save, or simply save to one default folder. It may take user some time to find or switch the folder to save and store the files. Automatic Save Folder is a Firefox add-on that able to automatically save the files to desired location based on the […]
When right clicking on an application program (its icon) on the Windows 7 Superbar (Taskbar), he or she will be presented with a Jump Lists, which show contextual menu items which related to the particular program, such as listing recently used documents and files, ability to run another instance of the program, option to pin or unpin the application on the Taskbar and click to […]
JumpLists is a new feature in Windows 7 that applies to all Taskbar application icons that allows easy access to common tasks related to the corresponding application. When user right click on an icon of an application sitting on the Windows 7 Task Bar, a “Jump Lists” contextual menu will display all the last instances of the application in the Taskbar, together some other frequently […]
When right click on a shortcut (.lnk) icon or file in Windows Vista, there suppose to be a menu item called “Open file location” on the right click context menu. However, sometimes, the “Open file location” command may go missing or simply not showing up when right clicking on shortcut in Windows Vista. The error happens on shortcuts that point to all files, folders, documents […]
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