Still haven’t made up your mind about Internet Explorer 7? No problem, you can always uninstall it and revert to the Internet Explorer 6 web browser that came with your operating system. Unless you’ve upgraded to Windows XP SP3, that is. Because Microsoft is telling computer users that if they install IE7 before XP SP3, [...]
By default, Windows Vista doesn’t allow you to install custom color and window decoration themes, unless they’ve been specifically reviewed by Microsoft. The reason is because Windows checks the themes with a cryptographic key, so you have to patch windows to allow custom-created themes to install. With a set of Uxtheme Patches, and a willingness [...]
If you’ve got Windows XP SP2, you might want to check the good ol’ Windows Update page today. A week after delaying the launch of Windows XP SP3, Microsoft today released the update through Windows Update. That means even if you don’t go out of your way to download it, there’s a good chance you’ll [...]
To put a lid on bloggers’ speculation about police getting “backdoors” to Windows security, Microsoft is starting to hush up on the subject. In an e-mail to BetaNews on Friday, a spokesperson described COFEE as a “customizable framework.”
Despite releasing a few more facts on Friday about a controversial new tool for police officers, Microsoft has [...]
A few weeks ago Microsoft announced a new partnership with the non-profit organization Companions in Courage which is dedicated to supporting families with children who are dealing with life-threatening medical conditions. As part of the partnership, Microsoft will be supplying hundreds of standalone Xbox 360 kiosks to children’s hospitals across the country.
The first wave of [...]
There are plenty of free CD/DVD burners for Windows, and to be honest we haven’t often been tempted to look beyond CDBurnerXP and InfraRecorder, which both seem to handle pretty much any tasks you can throw at them. The application can handle all of your basic tasks like burning data, audio, and video discs. It [...]
Freeware application AutoGK rips DVDs to hard drive-friendly DivX and Xvid formats for quick, easy, and high-quality backups. It does so by acting as an automating front-end to several other free ripping and encoding tools, which it automatically installs on your system.
Although I’ve never featured AutoGK, a lot of readers swear by it. If you [...]
Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.
The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB “thumb drive” that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. Microsoft General Counsel Brad [...]
By now most people have likely already upgraded to Windows Vista Service Pack 1, but one of the smaller feature upgrades might have passed most people by: You can now configure automatic defragmenting for All drives, as well as defragment all of your drives at the same time.
Set Automatic Defrag Options
Launch Disk Defragmenter by typing [...]
**Update**: For the last month or two I’ve been telling you that Microsoft planned to release Windows XP Service Pack 3 through Windows Update today, meaning most Windows XP users would download and install it automatically. But then Microsoft decided to go and make liars of all of us who reported so, by holding off [...]
PreviewConfig is a utility that gives Vista users the power to add file type support to the Explorer preview pane, which can be activated via “Organize.” Though the preview pane can be an interesting and useful feature of the OS, it really lacks in file support. It’s possible to add support for more without [...]
The Windows expert who originally speculated that Microsoft deliberately included a “trick” in Windows Vista that lets users install the OS from the upgrade version on Wednesday defended his position. Earlier this month, the Windows Secrets newsletter reiterated claims it made last year that Microsoft is aware that users can clean install the fully functional, [...]
It used to be that you would need four or five different programs to optimize your system, clean the registry, rename files, capture screens, etc…
That was before RegToy.
RegToy is a freeware utility that is basically a collection of utilities. The program sidebar is broken up into three main categories: System, User, and Others.
The System section [...]
One of the few things about Vista that just drives me crazy is the problems with Windows Explorer. I prefer to use “Details” mode for certain folders, but it seems like Vista constantly decides that the folder should show a different set of columns than what I had previously chosen.
The problem is that Vista “Auto-Detects” [...]
Windows XP users with a serious Mac crush have FlyakiteOSX to make their desktop resemble, if not work like, a Mac, but Vista users—even those upgraded to Service Pack 1—now have Vista OS X for a similar OS paint job. The installer does requires that you disable User Account Control to move forward, but you’ll [...]
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