Windows Tools, Help & Guides

What’s one of the most common ways to get unauthorized access to someone else’s computer – especially that of a friend or family member? By guessing the password!

Someone who knows you well may be able to figure out your password, especially if he can try different possibilities before hitting on the right one.

If you’re running Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate edition (or the equivalent edition of Vista), you can set your Windows account to temporary lock if someone enters the wrong password several times in a row.

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We’re always seeing it on TV: John Doe logs onto his computer and the computer says “Welcome, John.”

Here’s  how to make your computer greet you, upon your return. Read the rest of this entry »

I was surfing around the National Geographic site, and found that they have published some 5000 wallpapers from their vast collection.
I’ve picked out a few images for you, from the Animal Theme. Enjoy

All images are 1600×1200 pixels.

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Tired of seeing your icons constantly re-arranged ?

Every time you swap between screen resolutions, or turn on (or off) your dual monitor, you will most probably experience that you have to re-arrange your desktop icons.

Many of the applications for dual monitor have a feature for saving and restoring the position (and layout) of your Desktop Icons. But if you don’t already have this functionality at hand, then this is for you.

How to Add the Save / Restore Icon Layout functionality to your Context Menu.

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You already know where to get the best wallpapers and icons, I’m sure. Now it’s time to bring you a collection of free screen savers. It’s so many creative people out there creating cool screen-savers for free, so why settle for those, trial-screen-savers, with limitations or nag screens ?

If the download link for some reason doesn’t work, try the “More Info” link instead.

Here, I bring my first collection of totally free screen-savers. Enjoy.

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Remember that we told you about the WinX HD Ripper, back in August ? This is the bigger brother the WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe. Digiarity, the developers behind these great programs, have yet again offered us 20 licenses to give away to you.

As always this is your chance to help improve this software by providing the developers with a few answers. Get your head on straight and enter this great giveaway. One of 20 licenses can be yours to keep.

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