If you have children around and they are fascinated by your computer, one of the things you might consider is to lock your system by disabling access to Windows so no damage can be done if they press the wrong button or key. Here's 8 useful ways to do it.
Having programs constantly accessing the hard disk in the background which shouldn't or don't need to can be bad for performance and the stability of your computer. Finding out what is accessing the disk and how often is a good troubleshooting idea, here we have 5 ways for you to find this out.
If you find splash screens on program startup useless, here we'll guide you on how to disable the splash screen for some of the most popular applications and also using a tool that can automatically detect and hide splash popups for certain programs.
To convert from one format to another isn't difficult and you can install an archiver, extract the files and re-compress them to the new format. There are other ways to conveniently convert from one archive format to another though, here's a few to look at.
Many default Windows settings are there for the benefit of average or inexperienced users but they aren't that helpful if you're an advanced or expert user. Here we show you 4 programs to help quickly change a number of default settings in Windows to give you more advanced information and control.
Enlarging images using the normal scaling method with any image editing tool will only give you an end result of a blur and low quality pixelated image. You use can Vector Magic to automatically convert your image into a vector so that you can resize it while maintaining the quality.