Program Installations with a Twist, Part 2

Last time we discussed Portable Applications for your windows computers. There are several great things about portable programs.  One being they are independent which means they stand alone.  For instance, when installing them you select only one folder. Once installed, you will find that program and all of its related files in that folder.  This…

Program Installations with a Twist, Part 1

This column was brought about by a group of us geeks discussing the current Windows operating systems.  Of course, this included the Windows Registry and the way applications are now installed on a Windows based computer.  Basically there was a consensus that we would like to do away with the registry and the way applications…

Browser Tricks, Part 1

I have a couple of tricks for your browsers today.  These questions came in emails from Ivan and a couple of other readers recently.  Today we will look at some of them.  Please remember to send me your questions because I like to write about some of them from time-to-time. First, Ivan asked about putting…