The user interface of User Account Control (UAC) settings in Windows 7 has changed to reflect the move to make UAC less annoying, more user control and more user friendlier approach. In Windows 7, the UAC has a slider bar which allows users to configure and select which level of notification (and hence protection against unauthorized and malicious access) they want. With the fine-tuning of […]
UAC (User Account Control) in Windows 7 has been streamlined, enhanced and optimized to give Windows 7 user better experience when using the operating system while protecting the security of the system. According to Engineering Windows 7 blog, Windows 7’s UAC undergoes the following changes: Reduce unnecessary or duplicated prompts in Windows and the ecosystem, such that critical prompts can be more easily identified. Enable […]
Some photographers or editors may need to review, label and rate large amounts of digital photos in their daily operation, and the process is tedious and may take up to few hours. FastPictureViewer was designed to help them save time. FastPictureViewer is a small and fast windows application that supports rating, copying images on the fly and viewing the images either in window mode or […]
If you have tried multiple screenshot programs but not fully satisfied with them, you may want to give this tiny snapshot program a try if it can help you better. Named as Greenshot, it is one of the simplest but yet very useful screenshot targeted for those Windows PC users that need a much quicker way to print screen and add some color texts onto […]
There are various add-ons or plugins to Firefox browser which allow users to have quick access or quick launch to their favorite or most visited websites. The recently released tool, SiteLauncher, is another interesting quick launch tool that allows Firefox users to access their favorite website using some hotkeys with their keyboard.
Instant Messaging has become an important communication tool nowadays. It has become an indispensable tool especially for youngsters and white collar workers. They prefer to use this online communication tool to connect and keep in touch with friends rather than other means of communication because it is no cost, easy to use and it is fun. They are various add-ons or plugins can be installed […]
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 […]
Your Windows 7 desktop has getting messy with lots of shortcuts, icons, files, documents and applications scattering all over the place, at every corner of the desktop? If you plan to let Windows 7 to auto arrange these icons automatically, user can always right click on desktop, and then select “View” and opt to “Auto Arrange”.
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.
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