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I’ve tried a number of screen capture utilities and use some of them to create screenshots for www.mintywhite.com. I’ve compiled a list of the five best free screen capture utilities.
5 Free Screenshot Capture Utility Programs
On December - 22 - 200835 COMMENTS
Black Coffee Takes Care of System Administration
On December - 15 - 20089 COMMENTS
Black Coffee is an application designed to aid system administrators and advanced users in modifying user and local administrator windows settings. These settings range from Internet Explorer to Disabling Windows Shutdown. Black Coffee can only change settings if you’re on an administrator account; limited users will be unable to change settings, although they can view the settings.
Black Coffee runs on Windows 2000 onwards (XP/Vista.)
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Control Allowed Websites and Downloads in Vista [How To]
On November - 18 - 20082 COMMENTS
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You should protect young children when they are using the internet. Children learn best without you over their shoulders telling them what to do, but the internet is a scary place. In this guide you’ll learn how to control allowed websites in Windows Vista.
Vista User Accounts and Parental Controls Series
On November - 17 - 20086 COMMENTS
For the next week, I’m going to run a series of guides that will help you manage user accounts and parental controls on your Windows Vista machine.
If you have younger children, I strongly suggest you set up a user account for them and follow the instructions in these guides. You’ll learn how to do the following:
- Set up a user account with parental controls
- Collect information about computer usage
- Control allowed websites, downloads, and other internet usage
- Set time limits on computer usage
- Control games by rating, content, or title
- Block specific programs on your computer
Will Windows 7 be a Worthwhile Upgrade?
On November - 8 - 2008141 COMMENTS
An In-depth Look at Windows 7
A few days ago, I shared my initial thoughts on Windows 7. After spending more time with the operating system, I now share my findings and whether or not I feel Windows 7 will be a worthwhile upgrade.
I agree that Microsoft ran a little faster than they new how with Vista, which hurt them a lot. Windows 7 better be good, or people will either stick with XP until 2013, or switch to Linux, Mac, or the next big OS (will there be one soon?)
In this review, I’ll explore some of the new features Windows 7 brings and whether I like them or not. I’ll take a look at updated core applications, desktop and window management, home networking, and built-in troubleshooting. Then you decide… is Windows 7 a worthwhile upgrade?
My Initial Thoughts on Windows Seven
On November - 6 - 200846 COMMENTS
UPDATE: I’ve done a more comprehensive review here: Will Windows 7 be a Worthwhile Upgrade?
After a few hours exploring Windows 7, here is what I’ve found so far. Following are my likes and dislikes of the “standard” interface.
As you probably already know: if you don’t like something in Windows, you can usually change it to make it work the way you like. My thoughts focus on the default set up of Windows 7 M3.