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DNS request are usually cached by our operating system. It’s a good way to speed up the DNS lookups, but sometimes we may want to clear the cache or “flush DNS cache” so that it doesn’t hold the old values that are no longer valid.
Follow our guide below to “flush,” i.e., clear the DNS cache in Mac OS and Windows operating system. [Read more...]
In Windows, you can use the shell: command to quickly open any special folder directly from the Start Menu, Search menu or the Run dialog box.
Suppose, if you want to launch the Documents folder of your user profile, you’ve to type shell:Personal. In Windows 7, if you want to get access to Libraries, you’ve to type shell:Libraries.
There are many shell: commands available in Windows. These shell: commands are very useful if you want to quickly access or open special folders in Windows. If you want to have all the shell: commands list, for quick reference, we have compiled the list of ultimate complete shell: commands available for Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP.
You may be also interested in Beyond Windows 7 “GodMode” — 94 More Secret Windows Shortcuts Unveiled and 140+ Useful Windows Keyboard Shortcuts. [Read more...]
Starter is a freeware portable application that functions as a startup manager, Windows service manager and process monitor. It is very small but very powerful in functionality.
As you go on installing new applications in Windows, some of them are configured to launch themselves when Windows starts up. This slows up the start-up process and you end up hogging your system resources. You can use Starter to remove any unneeded program that is in your startup list so that it doesn’t run on startup any more and you gain back system performance. [Read more...]
Yesterday, we posted here about the availability and release of Microsoft Security Essentials 2 free antivirus for Windows. We did mentioned in our article that it is one of the most popular antivirus solution. It is without doubt also one of the most effective free antivirus application with detection rate matching those of the commercial paid products.
Almost five months ago, Microsoft released the beta version of MSE 2.0. A lot of improvements can be seen in the application. So, we thought that we should write a dedicated article highlighting all the improvements and the new features available in MSE 2.0. [Read more...]
Microsoft Security Essentials is one of the best free antivirus available for Windows. It is without doubt the most popular antivirus solution among Windows users. With detection rate that matches the commercial security products, it is without doubt one of the best software made by Microsoft.
Microsoft Security Essentials 2 upgrade brings in many improvements and new features, including the most requested heuristic scanning engine. MSE 1′s protection relied too heavily upon definitions, which is not enough for today’s ever-changing advanced threats. But with heuristic scanning engine and other new improved features, MSE 2 is now giving tough competition to other free and paid products. [Read more...]
Process Lasso is a unique application for Windows that will improve your PC’s responsiveness and stability during periods of high CPU load. Windows operating system is designed to allow programs to monopolize CPU usage without restraint but this leading to system hang and lags when a single process takes up huge share of CPU.
Process Lasso has been designed to optimize Windows responsiveness and stability by automatically adjusting processes and applications that take more than their fair share of the computer resource. It does so by intelligently adjusting the process priority of running programs or processes automatically using its unique ProBalance (Process Balance) technology, so that badly behaved processes won’t negatively impact the responsiveness of your PC. [Read more...]
When Windows becomes too slow and doing a simple task like refreshing the desktop takes ages, it is generally result of fragmented hard disk, junk files, and a badly maintained Windows registry. If you want to speed up your Windows and bring back the performance you used to get when it was freshly installed, then check out TuneUp Utilities 2011, an application that can dramatically speed up Windows performance.
TuneUp Utilities 2011 edition got released few days back and I got a chance to test it. I am testing it for the last few days on both my Windows XP and Windows 7 installation. It comes with a promising new feature TuneUp Program Deactivator with TuneUp Programs-On-Demand (more on this later) while including all the features from the successful 2010 edition. It also includes the new Overview of All Functions interface, Tuning Status, an enhanced Turbo Mode and a revamped Start Center. Read on to find out about our experience using TuneUp Utilities 2011 and how it became my favorite ultimate system utility. [Read more...]
If your computer is running Windows 7, or Vista, or Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2008 R2 and it freezes or stops responding when you try to rename a folder, then applying this hotfix KB980382 released by Microsoft may come handy.
The problem occurs in the following scenario:
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