Category: Software
Updating your installed software can be important for security purposes as well as for performance and bug fixes. A useful option is to run a tool that can tell you which applications have an available update. Here are 7 free tools that can detect updates for installed software.
Being able to change DNS server stings on your computer can be of great benefit if you want to add a DNS that offers encryption or content blocking, etc. In this article, I show you how to change DNS settings within Windows, using various methods.
When you connect to a WiFi hotspot provided by many businesses, it will often show a WiFi login page that requires a password to connect. You can also do this for your own network. Here's how to create a WiFi login page from within Windows.
A video is made up of a number of still images played in sequence. If you want to extract a number of frames from the video, it's easily possible. Here is how to use the popular VLC Media Player to extract multiple video frames as images.
A firewall is an important part of your computer's security setup. There's a basic firewall built into Windows and several major third-party firewalls are available. Here are five alternative free firewalls that are a bit less well known than the big names.
Windows Search has never been that great but being built into Windows, it's the default option. A better and more efficient solution is using the popular Everything search tool with an add-on that allows quick file searches from the Taskbar.