If you’ve upgraded to Windows 7 or Vista, you may have noticed that Windows explorer no longer supports a “folder up” button that can take you back up to the parent folder. Instead, Windows 7 and Vista only has a back button. To travel up the folder →
How to acces folder options in Windows 7 and Vista, quickly and from any open folder
In Windows XP, users were able to access folder options quickly, via the tools menu in any open folder. In Windows 7, however, there’s been a slight change, and at first glance it seems that the tools menu is simply not there anymore. I recently needed →
How to add bookmarks to a PDF document (using free software)
This posting will describe the process of adding bookmarks to your PDF document using free software. Bookmarks are used in PDFs as an interactive index that can instantly transport the reader to certain pages, sections, individual elements within the documents, and even external documents or media →
How to export to PDF from MS Office 2007
One of the more consistently touted features of OpenOffice is its ability to export documents straight to PDF. But did you know that Office 2007 supports exporting to PDF format as well? All you need to do is download and install the free “Save as PDF’” Office →
How to extract the sound from videos in FLV or MP4 formats, such as videos downloaded from YouTube or other video sharing sites
Have you ever needed to extract the sound file from a downloaded video, such as videos from YouTube or other video sharing sites? In this post I will show how to separate the audio track from a video file (a process also known as “demuxing”). Of →
How to change your default browser on Windows XP to portable Firefox (or any other portable browser)
This posting will describe how to change your default system browser on Windows XP to a portable version of Mozilla Firefox using a free program called DefaultBrowser, doing so reversibly and without installing the non portable version. The same process described here could be used to →
How to split a very large text or CSV file by a specific number of lines/rows
This posting will describe how to split a very large CSV or Text file into a number of smaller parts by specifying the number of desired lines within each of the resulting pieces (for example, by 65536 lines for use with Excel 2003 or 1,048,576 for Excel 2007). The method →
How to unblock blocked startup items in Vista
If you’ve ever encountered a blocked startup app in Vista and would like a work-around that can bypass it then read on. This posting will describe how to launch an app on startup as a scheduled task, which will circumvent the startup apps list altogether. Ultimately →
How to convert DVDs into iPhone, iPod, PSP or AVI formats (for free)
This article will describe an easy, straightforward way to convert DVD videos, including commercial/encrypted DVDs, into any of a handful of popular video formats; specifically iPhone/iPod/PSP (MP4 or M4V), as well as AVI. It will use two freeware titles in the conversion process: Handbrake and DVD43. If you’re →
How to uninstall anything: free apps that get the job done
Forget Windows’ add/remove programs, there are free programs out there that can do a much better job uninstalling programs, cleaning up afterwards, and/or removing programs in batch.
This article presents three handy free programs designed to remove installed applications from your system: Appremover (uninstalls security applications), →
How to create shortcuts with a relative path for use on USB drives
this posting will describe how to create program shortcuts on the root folder of a USB drive that preserve the relative path of the USB drive’s folder structure (such that these shortcuts will always work no matter what drive letter Windows assigns the drive). It will →
How to change Windows’ default image editor (and find a good freeware replacement)
This posting will describe how to change the default image editor used by Windows using a small freeware program called Imgeditor, and will propose 4 freeware image editing programs that you can use instead (Photoscape, GIMP, Paint.Net, Image, and I.Mage). I was recently testing a screenshot →
