Just What Is Using Up All My Hard Drive Space? If you are getting low on disk space, and you have completed a quick disk cleanup, one of the next steps, is to find out exactly what is using up all that space on your hard drive. One of the best Windows freeware hard disk analysis programs is WinDirStat. This program will quickly scan your hard drive and display exactly
Some docking tricks you can really use ! You might have already discovered you can maximize an open window by sliding it to the top of the screen, or docking and automatically re-sizing it to fill half the desktop by sliding the window off the screen to the left or right. But…did you that you can accomplish the same thing without using your mouse. With the active window open you can
Windows 7 & 8 Taskbar Enhancements… Some you know… Some you probably don’t. Most people who have used Windows 7 and 8 long enough accidentally stumble upon some of the more useful features in Windows 7 & 8. One is the convenient enhanced taskbar where you can hover over program icons and see a small graphic thumbnail of the actual application window without opening it. The graphic below shows the result of hovering
Optimize Your Traditional Hard Drive but not your SSD Drive ! Every version of windows since XP have included a basic Disk Defragmenter program. On recent versions of windows you will find this in the start menu under Accessories, System Tools. On Windows 8 it may be easier to just search for it using the search tool.On traditional hard drives this improves performance and speed by piecing together parts of
Use a free on line service to convert a PDF to text. Bundled with the right software some scanners can convert the text in a document to editable format, but most of you probably don’t have ready access to these tools. Say hello to “ONLINE OCR“. ONLINE OCR hast the traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool, which scans each letter in the file and converts it into text. With ONLINE OCR,