A lot of IT and other tech-savvy people will perform a defragmentation of a hard drive to boost performance. When asked what it does, sometimes it is easy to say that it helps your computer run quicker, without elaborating on the process behind the program. We’ll look at how to defrag a hard drive, why it is important to defragment your hard drive regularly, as well as a few things to remember before running the scan. How to defragment ...

Giving kids an unrestricted internet access is a scary thought for any parent. The internet is littered with websites that are unsuitable for kids, and better parental controls are needed more than ever. KIDZY enables very strong restrictions to web access, but not based on the regular content filtering mechanisms. Parents can add websites to the favorites and enable an administrative option which restricts access to just those domains. Children can ...

ReadyBoost came to the Windows operating system in Vista. ReadyBoost allows users to take advantage of removable media to help speed up your OS. ReadyBoost isn’t foolproof, but under the right circumstances and PC setup, ReadyBoost can make a difference. But does ReadyBoost really improve performance in Windows? Can it make such an improvement that you don’t need more RAM or a PC upgrade? Let’s take a look at what ReadyBoost is, how it works and whether it’ll ...

There are two registry items we can create to add a copy to folder and move to folder item to the Windows right-click menu. This will launch a popup every time it’s chosen that lets you choose where to copy/move the file/folder to without having to drag and drop like you normally would. Take a look at manually editing the registry yourself or download our pre-made tweak files at the bottom of this page. Manually edit the ...

We’ve looked at speeding up Windows 8 with ReadyBoost as well as using it to improve Windows 7 performance. While this built-in Windows feature is useful and can help with speed, it’s always nice to have alternative solutions. We’ll look at five other programs for similar use below. Each of these programs function very similar to ...

Do you hate trying to come up with secure passwords? Do you hate trying to remember them? If you’re concerned about your online security, then a password manager is a tool you should consider. There are a lot of password management choices, but not many of them come with feature set of Dashlane. Dashlane is a beautifully designed and very helpful password manager that is available on multiple devices. It’s available for Windows desktop, Mac OS X, Android and iOS devices. Today we’re going to review the ...

Windows Explorer is the main method of navigation around applications and folders. We’ve looked at customizing the appearance of folders and even running system commands right from an Explorer window. A whole new way to view and maneuver around Explorer is with Unreal Commander. There ...

Windows already includes a scheduled task feature but no options come inherently to make it easy for some operations. These include basic features like moving, deleting and copying files. Currently, a batch file with proper commands would have to be made and then executed as a program in Task Scheduler. This is unnecessary and most don’t want to go to the trouble. Download MoveBOT to do these same operations very ...

Receiving the “TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts” error in event viewer for Event ID 4226? A limit was first imposed back in XP SP2, with a concurrent connection limit of ten different connections per one second. Although most users won’t notice a difference in network activity if it’s increased, there is a registry value that can be set to zero to disable the maximum number of ...

Even if you run scans with programs like Malwareybytes or SUPERAntiSpyware, worms and other malicious programs can still infiltrate your system. They can and will run in the background, behind all your regular programs and may never even present itself in an interface form. It’s risky to let these ...