Exploring Windows processes with Process Explorer

Exploring Windows processes with Process Explorer Today, we’re featuring another program from Microsoft Tech Net’s Sysinterals. Sysinternals makes several great utilities for Windows and a couple of them we use all the time when we’re doing computer repair. One of them is Autoruns, and another is Process Explorer. Today we’re featuring Process Explorer. Both AutoRuns and Process Explorer are… Read More »

How Big is Your Haystack?

Test the strength of your passwords with “How Big is Your Haystack?” There are password strength checkers all over the Web, but there is only one that tests your passwords as brutally as this one. How Big is Your Haystack will test your passwords against three different kinds of attack scenarios and give you an estimate of the… Read More »

A photo editor unlike no other

A photo editor unlike no other: XnRetro The author should be a role model for us. He describes his very amazing program in 15 words. We should take after him, but you know us: Verbosity is in our genes. We thought long and hard about how to describe this program and, believe it or not, the best way… Read More »

Take Your Breath Away

Take Your Breath Away “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.” I have been thinking about that particular aphorism lately. I wonder if our lives really are measured by the number of breaths we take or even by the number of moments that… Read More »

How to boot into Safe Mode in any version of Windows

Windows Safe Mode If you’re having problems with your computer and you suspect you’re infected with malware (a virus, Trojan, rogue, spyware, etc.) booting into Safe Mode is a good first step. Safe Mode is available in all versions of Windows and is a special mode of Windows were only the bare minimum of services load and minimal… Read More »