How to turn off background apps in Windows 10 Windows 10, like most things and people which are successful, is either loved or hated. Those who hate Windows 10 say Windows 10 was set up to spy on you and to harvest all kinds of information about you to help Microsoft earn gazillions by stealing your privacy. Ain’t… Read More »
A last fall we published an article showing how a download site can manipulate search engines, capitalize on the hard work of software developers, and roll up software that belongs to someone else in a nasty installer full of PUPs and malware. This site is called Softonic and it’s one of the biggest, most popular download sites, not… Read More »
Advanced startup options in Windows 10 Digging deep into the inner workings of Windows 10 we find the rather arcane feature called “Advanced startup”, see? Most of you who are just starting to use Windows 10 have probably never seen this option, and having just installed Windows 10, probably haven’t needed it. Down the road a year or… Read More »
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 »