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Screenpresso: Quite Possibly the Best Free Screen Capture Tool for Windows

Posted by Taylor Ling On January - 27 - 2011

Windows Guides’ Rating	Compatible with	System
4.5 out of 5

PROS: Great user experience, powerful built-in editor, tons of sharing options, and it’s free. Can be used as portable app.

CONS: Video capture in free version is too short, and this feature is still very new.

VERDICT: If you are looking for one of the best screen capture tools for free, this is the one.

PRICE: Free (Pro version $28)

VERSION REVIEWED: 1.2.1.4

DOWNLOAD: Screenpresso

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How To Easily Handle PC Sound Card Problems

Posted by Guest Post On January - 6 - 2011

In this guest post, James Ricketts discusses how to handle PC sound card problems. Find out more about James at the end of this post.

You just double-clicked your favorite song, turned the volume up, but guess what – there is no audio! You wait wondering what the cause could be, but still no luck. Your speaker simply refuses to produce any sound.

You frantically scan your sound file for a virus and the scan results show everything is clear. Your computer is new, so the cause cannot be a faulty sound card, or incorrect entries in the windows registry.

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Computer Drivers The Basics

Posted by Guest Post On January - 5 - 2011

In this guest post, James Ricketts explores the basics of computer drivers. Find out more about James at the end of this post.

Device Drivers – An Introduction

Computer operating systems, such as Windows, Linux and Mac, and hardware components, such as sound cards, memory cards, and video cards do not speak the same language. To communicate effectively, hardware devices and operating systems require an interface. This interface is provided by device drivers. These drivers enable the computer operating system and installed software to communicate with the hardware devices.

In this article, you will learn:

Why it is necessary to use only the latest drivers
Which is better – manual driver updation process or automatic driver updation process
What is Driver Finder?

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Create Multi-part Archives to Split Large Files for Emailing, Writing to CD [How To]

Posted by Rich On January - 4 - 2011

In the last guide, I showed you how to extract files from multi-part archives. If you want to create on of these archives yourself, follow this guide. This guide will show you how to create multi-part archives with the following tools:

7-Zip
WinRAR

Why would you want to create a multi-part archive?

You want to email a large file to a friend but your email limits attachment sizes to 20MB.
You want to host a file and want people to have a greater chance of wasting less time with failed downloads.
You have a file that’s over 4GB and you’re moving it to a file system that doesn’t support such a large size (i.e. FAT32.)
You need to spread the archive across multiple thumb drives, CDs, DVDs etc.

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Span Volumes, Make Windows Think Two Drives are One

Posted by Thomas On January - 1 - 2011

Do you have several physical hard-drives on your computer, but would like to have them collaborating as one? This can be useful for smaller SSD-drives or similar.

A quick Note before we continue!
Spanned volumes are not RAID volumes and they are not fault tolerant. If one of the disks in the volume should fail, you lose the data on both disks. That being said, let’s continue…

Preparations

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Use Windows 7’s Display Color Calibration to Optimize Your Display [How To]

Posted by Rich On December - 30 - 2010

As all screens are not created equal, which is why Microsoft have bundled a display color calibration tool with Windows 7. This tool is easy to use and this guide serves as a checklist for using it.

You should use this tool if:

You’ve not calibrated your screen yet.
You’ve changed monitors (even if it was calibrated with another computer.)