Windows task manager is quite simple and don’t have much of the features so if you are looking for some task manager that can give you enough information of the processes running in the background then you should try this process explorer called System Explorer.
Though I have mentioned about the replacement task managers but this [...]
Want to transfer data from the old computer to a new one or is it your faulty drive? No problems, solution is the data copy tool called Raw Copy.
This program copies a disk as a raw image from one drive directly to another. The utility also comes handy if you want to move data from [...]
One of our readers submitted this problem of not being able to view the names of the users under the User Name tab of the Task Manager while System was listed as usual.
This is very unusual thing and can happen immediately after the system is booted up that is before the system is fully processed. [...]
Running multiple applications simultaneously, no doubt, slows down the system but also clutters the taskbar. So if you have a habit of keeping the taskbar clean and tidy then you can make the applications minimize directly to the desktop and not to the taskbar as usually is.
The tool is called miniMIZE and what it does [...]
If you have a habit of locking your system a lot then this utility called Mute on Lock is especially for you. This utility disables the sound that comes from the speakers when we lock our system.
Mute on Lock is a tiny resident utility that sits in the system tray and monitors your session: when [...]
It’s been a long time since the release of Windows 7 but there are few individuals who are not impressed with Windows 7 and want to continue with XP.
Windows XP is so simple and easy to use that not everyone wants to come out of XP. So if you are using Windows 7 but also [...]
If in case you are bored up with the regular text of the icons and want something exciting then here is something different for you.
You can change the names of the icons on the desktop to different characters or shapes like a circle, square, heart or a fraction. Doing this is very simple and requires [...]
It is a common problem that whenever we try to open an Office application we come across a dialog box with the following message:
Preparing to install…
Please wait while Windows configures Office Edition
These messages may appear if any one (or all) of the following DWORD values in the registry is missing from
It happens many times that we wish to run multiple Operating Systems but the effort required to uninstall one and install another is huge, so it is a better option to run another OS virtually without the need to install it.
VMware Player is the easiest way to run multiple operating systems at the same time [...]
Windows default Task Manager provides capabilities to manage the processes on the local system but it cannot be used to manage the processes of the computer connected to a network.
So if you ever wanted to manage and control the processes running in the background of a remote computer then this can be done easily with [...]
If you ever wanted to print or list the files you have in a folder then you can do that easily with the following tools which are free and simple to use.
Using these tools you can not only print the file names but also the file information like file’s size, date and time of last [...]
If you are bored up with the default Windows Task Manager and its simple functionalities then you can try a new and improved Task Manager called Security Task Manager.
Security Task Manager provides the users with lots of information apart from the usual process information. Security Task Manager shows comprehensible information about programs and processes running [...]
