Tip: Make Your Windows 7 Type A Little Clearer

Friday, 19 March 2010 | Jason Slater

Computer display screens are pretty inconsistent from manufacturer to manufacturer – and a very readable screen of text on one computer may not be quite right for you when viewed on a different screen.

If the text on your Windows … Read More

Measure Your Computer Boot Time

Monday, 8 March 2010 | Jason Slater

Windows Boot Time Utility – measure your computer boot time.

The current version of the free utility BootTimer, from Planetsoft.org, currently runs on Windows XP platforms and is a handy utility for getting a good understanding of your computers boot … Read More

Tip: Handling Folder Expanding In Windows Explorer

Saturday, 6 March 2010 | Jason Slater

Here is an interesting one, regarding Windows Explorer, that someone asked me about a few days ago.

They were telling me that on their work computer, which is running Windows XP, that clicking on a folder in Explorer automatically … Read More

Keeping Your Search Quiet In Windows 7

Saturday, 20 February 2010 | Jason Slater

If you use a shared Windows 7 computer and want to keep your search queries private you can highlight each search term in the drop list and press the Delete key on the keyboard (hold down the Delete key … Read More

Protect Your Files At The Command Line Using Cipher

Friday, 12 February 2010 | Jason Slater

A little known application utility in Windows is cipher.exe which allows you to utilise the functions of the encrypting file system (EFS), which we previously talked about in the article .

The cipher utility is pre-installed with Windows 2000, XP, and later versions and operates through a number of command line switches, we will look at some of the common ones in this article. It’s worth noting that many of the features of the cipher tool can be easily carried out using the tool options within Explorer – however you, like me, might be more comfortable in the command line.

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