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Every now and then I get questions from people about unknown file types. And even more rarely I find file types, which I don’t recognise. Usually a quick answer is found by googling the file type. But if you get this a lot – then this freeware solution, might just be what you need.
OpenWith Identifies Unknown Filetypes
On August - 28 - 20102 COMMENTS
Advice on Getting Yourself Anti-virus Software
On August - 25 - 2010ADD COMMENTS
A colleague of mine recently asked me to have a look at his personal Notebook. He has a virus infection on the PC and doesn’t know how to get rid of it.
He dropped the Notebook off at my house after work one evening and I had a look. Immediately several screens popped-up at me screaming about all the infections on the machine. I found this strange as I didn’t know the program spewing out these warnings.
After a bit of research on Google I found that this was one of those programs enticing the user to download for free. Once installed, it produces false-positives so the user will be scared into purchasing it. I removed the offending program, and updated the perfectly good antivirus and firewall software on the machine, scanned the entire notebook to find no major threats.
All the user needs to do now is to purchase a new annual license and he is good to go.
My advice is to ensure you have one of the major anti-virus programs installed, preferably with a firewall built-in. It is quite easy to read-up on different antivirus software programs online by simply asking Google.
Tidy your ‘Send to’ Menu [Quick Tip]
On August - 25 - 20104 COMMENTS
![114 9 256x256x32 Tidy your ‘Send to’ Menu [Quick Tip]](http://i0.wp.com/www.mintywhite.com/images/wg/rsvr85/TidyyourSendToMenuQuickTip_F4A4/114_9_256x256x32.png?resize=125%2C125 "Tidy your ‘Send to’ Menu [Quick Tip]")
After installing some software, an entry appears in your Send To Desktop context menu.
If you’ve a plethora of software installed on your system, this context menu can become cluttered and not as useful as intended my Microsoft.
This Quick Tip is going to show you how to tidy up your Send to menu.
Actual Multiple Monitors, The way Windows Should Work
On August - 25 - 20103 COMMENTS
Actual Multiple Monitors is a software utility offering the unique set of productivity tools aimed to enhance the usability of Windows user interface when working with multi-monitor configurations (dual, triple and more).
| Windows Guides’ Rating | Compatible with |
 5 out of 5 |
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 NAME: Actual Multiple Monitors
PROS: A Complete Taskbar on every monitor, which gives you total control. CONS: It’s not free VERDICT: This is by far the best Multi Monitor System I’ve ever encountered. I love the endless possibilities, and control it gives me. PRICE: $29,95 VERSION REVIEWED: 2.3 DOWNLOAD LINK BELOW |
Windows Media Center – One Remote Control, Many Uses
On August - 24 - 20101 COMMENT
There were a number of surprise benefits I found upon making the conversion to Windows Media Center.
They don’t hype this much in the Microsoft literature on WMC, but I find the switch from 6 remote controls to just 1 a huge benefit. No more flailing around to set the TV to the right input, and the DVR to the right mode, and Sky box to the right channel etc. etc. It’s all right there on my new remote best friend.
The “Before” and “After” shots are below.
What is New In Google Chrome 6?
On August - 23 - 201011 COMMENTS
The Beta version of Google Chrome 6 was released on August 11, 2010. The browser has several versions as you can read in the post: Google Chrome – Software channel breakdown, since that post was written, Google even created a new version named Canary but that is a topic for another post.
Chrome uses the source code of an open source project named Chrominum. The project is in version 7 at the moment.
At the time this article was written Google Chrome stable version is 5.0.375.127.