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Right Click Takes too Long on Windows: How to Fix & Causes

Although when you right click on a file or folder, the context menu should appear almost instantly, there are times when you could get either a lag or even Windows will hang. Here's a solution for tracking down and fixing this lagging problem.

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5 Ways to Disable Touchpad When Typing in Windows

The touchpad on laptop is inconveniently placed where you will accidentally touch the pad with the palm of your hand while typing and moving the cursor to another part of the screen. Here are 3 tools to disable the touchpad while you type on the keyboard.

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5 Ways to Allow Install of Unsigned Drivers in Windows 7

Windows 7 and Vista 64-bit by design does not allow you to load any unsigned drivers. This security feature does provide some protection against rootkits, but many author of a freeware cannot afford to sign their driver files. Here are 4 ways to load unsigned drivers in x64 Windows.

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2 Tools to Detect Problematic Drivers causing Audio or Video Streaming Dropouts

If you are streaming audio or video and constantly receiving dropouts, apart from your internet connection, another issue could be a problematic hardware driver. This is not always easy to troubleshoot manually, but there are a couple of tools available that can help identify what is causing the dropouts.

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MouseMux Alternative: Best Tools for Multiple Cursors

When doing presentation or brainstorming on one computer with a few people, having multiple mice and keyboards really helps to get the job done much faster. Here are two ways how you can do it.

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How to Increase Brightness of Laptop [Acer, Dell, HP]

Unlike laptops or notebooks, the LCD monitors connected to a computer does not come with an option for you to dim or increase the brightness on the screen which makes it very uncomfortable to your eyes. Here are 2 freewares that is able to adjust the brightness of your display.

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3 Apps to Create a USB or DVD with All Hardware Device Drivers for Windows XP, Vista and 7

The problem when you have re-installed Windows is that quite often you need to find and download at least some of the hardware device drivers. One solution is to have a complete set of drivers on a USB drive or CD so you don't need to rely on the internet.

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