Windows Tools, Help & Guides

I recently posted in Windows Forums about what I think will be the emphasis in Windows 8 development. In a nutshell, I talked about “the cloud”. For those of you not familiar with this terminology, just think about local storage; your C: drive. Now imagine all of the things you hold dear on that little hard drive platter floating around on the internet, ready for you to grab from anywhere. Photos, contacts, e-mails, notes, files, application settings; the list goes on and on. That is the concept of the cloud. Read the rest of this entry »

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After we posted a review of Chit Chat for Facebook, we sent a few questions to the developer, and here are all the questions and answers:

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If you’re looking to keep up on (or share) the latest technology news, you can now do so in the Technology News forum on Windows Forums.

If you’d like to get up updates, you can get a daily digest of the latest topics over on Windows Forums.

Windows Forums member, cnitin, has written a guide which teaches you how to put a “Toggle Hidden Files” button on your right-click context menu.

This is useful if you frequently work with hidden files but don’t want them showing all the time. Instead of going into the folder options and changing the setting each time, you can use a convenient toggle that can be accessed by a right click in Windows Explorer.

Want to change the text from “Toggle Hidden Files” to something less obvious like “Update View”? Just download the zip file, attached to the guide, open toggle.reg in Notepad, change the bolded part of the following line, and save the file before running run.cmd:

@=”Toggle Hidden Files“

Just download the attached zip file (link to the guide below), and double click run.cmd. There are also instructions to do this manually, but the cmd file works just fine.

Learn how here: Add “Toggle Hidden Files” Option to Context Menu

You may have seen one of these “slideshows” before but if it’s been a while since you’ve seen/used the earlier versions of Windows, this can be a trip down memory lane. The Hongikat blog has screenshots of all major Windows versions since version 1.01.

Windows 1.01 (1985)

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