When maximizing Command Prompt (Cmd.exe) window in Windows Vista, by default the width of the Command Window will not extend to cover the full width of the desktop screen horizontally, leaving space to the right side of the window showing the desktop background. And worse thing is, users unable to drag and expand the size of Command Prompt window horizontally and vertically manually too.
Many people create a favicon which also known as a website icon, page icon or urlicon to associate it with their own webpage. It is somehow an identity or a logo representing a website. Favicon is quite popularly used nowadays. Web designers will create their preferred favicons and users can see them in the browser’s URL bar, next to the site’s name in lists of […]
Logitech has a free QuickCapture Gadget for Vista that can takes, captures, records and saves pictures or snapshots from webcam (web camera) that is installed on the computer. If you web cam does not comes packaged with such ‘spy’ software for free, Microsoft has free Webcam Timershot PowerToy for XP that can automatic recording of webcam images.
“Open Command Prompt Here” or “Open Command Window Here” provides an easy way to directly open command prompt window at the browsed location without having to using command line to change directory, especially to deep nested folder. Windows Vista has “Open Command Prompt Here” built-in but hidden, which will reveal when key sequence is pressed.
Windows Vista DreamScene only allows video clip in .MPG (MPEG1 or MPEG2 format) and .WMV (Windows Media Video codec format) extension to be set as a DreamScene wallpaper on desktop background. Other formats such as .AVI which popularly used by DixV and XviD encoders and .RMVB (RealMedia Variable Bitrate) cannot be configured and set as a motion wallpaper.
.SRT subtitle format created by SubRip program, which uses optical character recognition technology to rip or extract subtitles and their timings from .VOB video files or DVDs. While SSA, abbreviation of SubStation Alpha (or Sub Station Alpha), is another subtitle file format that allows for more advanced subtitles than the conventional SRT and similar formats. Most important, SSA is supported and readable by VirtualDub, an […]
SyncToy is a free synchronization software from Microsoft which giving away the program as part of XP PowerToy download. However, SyncToy has been upgraded to support both Windows XP and Vista, providing a convenient way to maintain 2 or more copies of files in different location in sync. Unfortunately, SyncToy does not provide an automated way to watch or detect any changes to files or […]
We teach our kids not to talk to talk to strangers or open the door to people they do not know. Yet, we leave a window wide open in our house. Every time, they use the Internet, they can be lured into talking to any number of strangers of diverse backgrounds, motives and moral outlook. More worryingly, these strangers can solicit our children via anonymous […]
The leading manufacturer of high performance and durable flash memory solutions, ATP has announced its new GPS Photo Finder, the portable, cool and useful GPS device which aimed for convenient “geotagging” of digital photos taken by any digital camera using JPEG image files.
If you don’t notice yet, the system and boot drives in Windows Vista have a different icon from the other normal non-system or non-boot disk drives. The boot system drive icon has a small Microsoft Windows logo on the image of the drive, which make the logo looks like a small Windows flag, as shown in the illustrations below.
Grisoft is giving away free AVG Anti-Virus Professional edition latest version 7.5 for 1 year which normally costs $29.95 for license and 1 year subscription for virus signature update as part of promotion with ComputerActive magazine and VNU reader.
Windows Vista is very much different from Windows XP in kernel design, graphics, security control, and many other aspects. Although most programs previously works properly in XP should run smoothly in Vista too. However, some old programs or older applications may have compatibility problems and issues when running in Vista, making the program unable to run, distort display, cannot right click and etc. In this […]
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