8 Tools to Automatically Restart a Crashed or Closed Application

There are some important programs such as a gaming servers, webservers, databases or mail servers that we’d need to keep running at all times but not every piece of software will have a feature of monitoring itself and re-starting whenever it is closed. It’s a similar situation if you constantly download via P2P software or download managers because you might want to keep downloading or seeding even while you’re not at the computer.

5 Free Tools for Scheduling Windows to Shutdown, Hibernate, Sleep or Restart

There are a few ways to schedule an automatic shutdown that is built into Windows but they are not very user friendly. Here we have 5 free tools that can perform simple scheduled shutdown operations, and can also be a bit more advanced if you require it.

 Firefox Easily access and use all your stored passwords with QuickPasswords

if you are a normal internet user, than you have a lot of passwords. QuickPasswords is a password manager that helps you remember and use all your passwords.

Watch Youtube videos in VLC media player to skip ads, control playback speed, and multitask

So you are a Youtube junkie yet you find it annoying to watch Youtube in your browser for multiple reasons, such as the inability to multitask while watching videos. Want to know a better way to watch Youtube videos? Through VLC media player.

How to make YouTube videos load faster on Windows (XP, 7, 8, Vista), Mac OS X, and Linux

YouTube is owned by Google. Google is a web 2.0 company. They know how to manage server load. So then the question is why do so many people run into buffering issues when watching YouTube… even people on seemingly fast connections? This article provides more insights into this conundrum plus provides a tip on how to make YouTube videos load/buffer faster. Keep reading to learn more!

Minimize and lock open windows to prevent unauthorized access with WinLock

There are many ways to lock down security in Windows, including through a wide selection of third party apps. You can even use the Win + L keys to lock the current session and keep unauthorized users out. Unfortunately, that locks the entire session but what if you only wanted to lock various active windows. For example, while providing someone remote access to your computer, what if you wanted to lock-down just your current web browsing session? WinLock is a convenient tool that allows you to specifically hide and password lock and focused or active window.

Reset System and Hidden Attributes for Files or Folders Caused by Virus

When your files is missing due to virus infection, it may not necessarily mean that the files are deleted from your computer by the viruses. It could be possible that the files are hidden because the attributes has been modified. Here is how to locate the missing files and restore it back.

Understanding Different Types of Malware and What They Do

You may have heard of terms like malware, virus, trojan, keylogger, worm, rogueware, fake antivirus, rootkit, ransomware, adware, spyware and dialer. Here’s a brief and easy to understand explanation for the majority of known forms of malware to help you differentiate between them.

4 Repair Utilities to Fix the Majority of Known Windows Problems

 

When you have a nice and clean install of Windows, everything should work properly and it will be no problem to use. Unfortunately after installing and uninstalling third party software and drivers etc, the potential for minor or even major issues to appear quickly starts to increase. This is often caused by third party software or even malware leaving traces behind and not reverting back the changes they may have made to the system.
Not every Windows user knows how to analyze the problem in order to logically figure out a solution, so the best option is to look for possible fixes on the Internet. It shouldn’t take too long to come across a utility that will claim to fix your problems with the click of a button, sometimes even for a fee.

Convert PDF files to Word Documents, Text or Images

 

Some people like the Portable Document Format (PDF) and some are not great fans. The certainty is that at some point you will come across one to read. Not a problem because there are some good PDF readers around. Foxit Reader, Nitro PDF, SumatraPDF to name a few, and that’s assuming you don’t want to use Adobe Reader. If you want to edit or alter a PDF file, a popular way of doing it is to convert the document into Microsoft Word format and then do your editing from there.

5 Tools to Easily Install FreeDOS or MS-DOS onto USB for BIOS Flashing

 

Back in the days when floppy disks were still being commonly used, flashing your motherboard’s BIOS could only be done by booting the computer into DOS. When DOS is booted up on the computer, you’d probably have to switch to the floppy disk that contains the BIOS update file. Unlike today where updating a modern BIOS is far easier and convenient and you can update the BIOS directly from Windows using the software provided by the manufacturer, or simply put the BIOS file onto a USB flash drive and the inbuilt flashing tool inside the BIOS will recognize it.

A Useful Tool to Get an On Screen Volume Level Indicator

 

A lot of PC keyboards and a good number of laptops will usually have a couple of hotkeys somewhere to control the system volume, either by pressing an ‘Fn’ qualifier key and a number key, or some extra added on buttons. You might even have a nice little dial or slider to handle it for you. Sometimes there will be a function in the provided driver or software that shows the volume level status in a nice on-screen display. But if it isn’t available, you’re stuck with the basic Windows volume control options using the icon in the system tray. My Logitech keyboard has a dial and a mute button but nothing to display this on the screen.

4 Solutions to Restore Missing or Disappeared Safely Remove Hardware Icon

 

We’ve previously written about a trick on how to hide or remove safely remove hardware try icon. Although the tip has it’s uses, it’s is probably not useful for most of us because the majority of users own a USB flash or portable hard drive nowadays and we need the Safely Remove
 Hardware icon to eject or unplug our USB device so that
 the files in our USB flash drive won’t get corrupted.

Right Click Context Menus Added to your Desktop

 

The right click context menu is obviously an important part of Windows and can be very useful for providing shortcuts and options to do numerous things. From scanning a file for a virus or adding something to a zip file, to running a program as administrator, the list of possibilities is huge. Sadly, a lot of software tends to leave behind data in the context menu as well, even when it’s been uninstalled and no longer on the system. A utility that did that exact thing to me recently was Winpatrol. Obviously, it didn’t take long to get rid of it with a tool like ShellExView.

Best Archiver with Fastest Speed and Smallest Compressed File

The file archiving technology that originally came in ZIP extension was founded in 1989 by PKWARE and is still widely being used today. The good thing about using archive is you get to compress multiple files into one and also reducing the file size. This will allow anyone to easily transfer multiple files by sending only 1 file and also saving both time and bandwidth since the file size is smaller after compression. Today there are other archive formats such as RAR, 7z, ACE, CAB, GZIP, TAR and etc but the archive format that is being used widely is still ZIP. Even Windows started to natively support opening and extracting ZIP files since XP without using a third party software.

Requirements in Using Networking Tools on Remote Windows Computers

It is common for people especially who are in the tech industry to have more than 1 computer at home with one laptop that they can bring in to their office and the other desktop for their family to use. Setting up a local area network with the computers connected to each other is really easy with a router. When the computers are connected, not only they can share the Internet connection and files, but they can also be managed remotely from one computer as there are many free third party networking tools that comes with remote features.

10 Popular Web Browsers Tested for Memory and CPU Usage

A few years back, I used Internet Explorer for better compatibility with a number of websites. Moreover, I was already used to using Internet Explorer, so why bother changing? There are a quite a few web browsers around these days and they mostly have their own good and bad points. Whether it’s how many resources they take up or how quickly they load web pages, to what extra features they have included or can be added through extension plug-ins. If you’re not happy with your current browser, there’s really no excuse to not go out and try other browsers and see what they have to offer.

15 AntiRootkits to Detect and Remove Malware that Uses Rootkit Technology

Malware that uses rootkit technology are the worst because they are hardest to detect and can even stay infected on a machine for years without being discovered. Here we put 15 dedicated antirootkit applications to the test to see the effectiveness of these programs.