When Something Beautiful Dies When we let something beautiful die the world is less beautiful place. We tend to a prize rose bush and we water it every day and we prune it when it needs pruning. We feed it and we tend to it and we enjoy its perfect fragrant blooms. Every day we look at it… Read More »
Be a power user with ServiWin from Nirsoft One of the most trusted names in freeware is Nirsoft. We’ve been using his utilities for a long time, and he still continues to churn out Windows utilities continuously… and most of what he does is minimalistic, but excellent. No fancy graphical user interfaces here. Rarely do we feature something… Read More »
System Reset and Refresh get married in Windows 10 In Windows 8x a lot of changes were made and many were not well accepted. However, one little known feature of Windows 8x was improved in Windows 10. In Windows 8x there was a System Refresh and a System Reset and the few people who knew about it were… Read More »
Check a site for cookies without visiting it While we have an ambivalent attitude toward cookies, many of you seem to be concerned with cookies and no amount of words by us are going to get you to stop worrying about cookies. Therefore in the spirit of capitulation, we offer to those cookiephobics among you a Web site… Read More »
Make Cortana use Google Instead of Bing search (and how to set a default browser in Windows 10) [Page updated on 6/28/2018] We’ve removed this tip because it does not work in Windows 10 versions released after April 2016. Hopefully you’re not still using an unsupported version of Windows 10. If you would like your Cortana searches to… Read More »
Windows 10 has a time machine — it’s called File History Windows 10 has a feature called File History which allows you to restore accidentally deleted, altered or corrupted files, quickly and easily. First, before you can take advantage of the Windows time machine – File History – you must turn it on. There are two ways to… Read More »