Articles about software
Nothing Will Go Wrong! Half-Life was launched by Valve on 19 November, 1998 and I first heard about it when working at a medical conference in August 1999. I’d been chatting with some fellow PC geeks who had a booth next to mine and we’d […]
I rarely turn off my desktop computer but sometimes I need a restart. Of all the programs that open automatically on startup, I would like my email program, Thunderbird, to be one of them. Thunderbird, at the time of this writing, does not support that
Slowly but surely more and more software vendors have been moving to a subscription-based model, to a point where owning software outright has become somewhat of a rarity. In fact, some software vendors who moved to an annual subscription some time ago are now only
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I wrote before about using the CMD prompt to delete files that are hard to delete because they might be locked by the system. In my case, I had a file with an extra-long name. I couldn’t rename, delete, or do anything else with it.
Giveaways & Contests Dave’s Computer Tips is working hard to bring top-quality software to our readers. Please note that none of the upcoming contests and giveaways are etched in stone. Changes may be made to this list at any time. Here’s what’s happening… Expired! Ascomp
Audials Movie 2023 Winners Announced! This contest has now expired. Winners will be notified by email. Congratulations to the Winners and Thank You to everyone who participated! Audials has kindly offered DCT five licenses for a giveaway contest for their latest version of Audials Movie
A long time ago my nephews wanted me to print up a large poster for them. A RuneScape world map. I used a program to do it but cannot remember what program I used. I received a comment in the previous post suggesting this program.
Giveaways & Contests Dave’s Computer Tips is working hard to bring top-quality software to our readers. Please note that none of the upcoming contests and giveaways are etched in stone. Changes may be made to this list at any time. Here’s what’s happening… Running Now!
The Argentine Peso Is Junk Frankly, I’m surprised that it’s taken Steam so long to make this announcement. The Argentine peso is practically worthless and is losing about 10% of its value every week. In fact, some experts forecast that it will plunge a further
Overview Everything, that has been around for 18 years, is used by many DCT readers. Many readers may have read Marc Thomas’s post Everything – Windows Search At Light Speed. Everything is on DCT’s list of recommended software. Everything, by Voidtools, is a free Windows
Giveaways & Contests Dave’s Computer Tips is working hard to bring top-quality software to our readers. Please note that none of the upcoming contests and giveaways are etched in stone. Changes may be made to this list at any time. Here’s what’s happening… Expired! Ascomp
Winners Announced! This contest has now expired. Winners will be notified by email. Congratulations to the Winners and Thank You to everyone who participated! Ascomp has kindly offered our DCT readers a chance to win a copy of their PDF-Compress software. These five licenses
Overview Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities developed by Microsoft for use with the Windows operating system. These programs add or change features to improve productivity or add customization. A while ago, I wrote about Microsoft PowerToys and my Top 5 Microsoft PowerToys. Later, I
