The Right Click Menu helps us a lot in doing our work faster. However, there are things that we would like to add to it and things that we would like to remove from it. FileMenu Tools is a free software using which you can add a lot of commands to the right click context [...]
Have you ever right-clicked on a file or folder in Windows Explorer and had to wait a few seconds for the context menu to appear? This slowness when right-clicking occurs because there are simply too many programs that add their own entry the list.
At one point, my computer had 15 to 20 items in the [...]
Another reader asks: I have had my computer for quite some time now and my grandkids are always telling me I need to get a new one. They say mine is too slow and it just doesn’t work right. As for me, I’m not convinced. Do you have any guidelines I can follow to see [...]
With so many great open source programs on the market, it’s pretty normal for people to use third party text editors, photo editors, etc instead of the default programs installed on Windows.
For example, when I double click on the TXT file, it always opens up in Notepad. That used to be OK, but now that [...]
Back by very popular demand! Several people have problems with the dreaded “red X,” so you’re definitely not alone when you ask this question. All of us here in the office get multiple e-mails about this topic everyday, so even though we’ve done a tip on it before, here’s a little more explanation that [...]
Auto Delete is a free utility that can automatically delete files from a specific folder which are older than a specified time. Most of my downloads get saved in the “Downloads” folder and most of them are of no use after a few days. So i can use it to periodically clean my downloads folder.It [...]
Leaving your computer in a hurry but you don’t want to log off? You can double-click a shortcut on your desktop to quickly lock the keyboard and display without using CTRL+ALT+DEL or a screensaver.
To create a shortcut on your desktop to lock your computer:
Rather than depending on each client computer to manage its own tasks, such as connecting to the Internet, file sharing, or sending and receiving e-mail, in a client-server network, the client computers “outsource” these tasks to the server. This allows the client computers to run leaner and faster, as well as providing a single point [...]
Today Morning, I received a mail form one the reader who sent us four snapshots of various restrictions he/she is facing on a computer.
There was nothing written in the mail other than this text – Please solve my problem and these four images as shown in the image below
Trouble:
This problem is related a particular symptom when you cannot open any drive on double click, normally when you cannot open a particular drive on double click you can open it by right clicking the drive and select explore.
