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Viruses insist on making our lives impossible, they are capricious and resist being eliminated, but once...
Viruses insist on making our lives impossible, they are capricious and resist being eliminated, but once...
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In the previous post we saw how you could discover passwords behind the asterisks, without using programs, a…
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Although portable computers (Laptops, Notebooks, Netbooks) have buttons and power options, for the screen to…
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Although you remember in a previous article, with the DriverBackup! tool, I told you about what Drivers (or Controllers) are,...
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We well know that when we delete a file, either by emptying it from the Recycle Bin or directly (Shift+Del);...
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Many of us are used to carrying our own music to make...
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If you check your folders containing images or videos with WinRAR for example, you will surely see a hidden file called Thumbs.db…
fMerge is a free application for Windows, which can be very useful if we constantly work with text files...
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For security reasons, it is always good to keep track of everything that happens on our computer, even more so…
Christmas week starts and in VidaBytes We get in tune with this beautiful festivity, today I present to you a pleasant...
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When we mention the word 'metadata', we already know that we are referring to the 'information' of a file or document in…
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It is common knowledge that Word documents have been relegated to the internet, because today the format…
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If you remember, in a previous article I told you about ReOpen, a free program designed to recover closed windows in…
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If we remember correctly, in a previous post I commented on Q-Dir; a free application that would help us explore our…
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Although we remember, in a previous article I told you about EyeCare; a good free application to take care of your eyes during…
We know that when you delete a file in the usual way, it is not permanently deleted. This means that always...
Easy Safe Password, allows you to convert your usual passwords into highly secure encrypted passwords, ideal for use in…
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We well know that USB flash drives are a 'carry and bring viruses', so to call it vulgarly. By this I mean…
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With the exception of Windows 7, we well know that in older versions like XP especially, it's quite a yawn to search for a file. Well…
As users we are constantly opening and closing windows multiple times, in the same way we execute and end programs at random and…
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It is well known by all that Malware infections, to a large extent or at least a significant percentage,…
Yes, as the title of this post says, now we have the opportunity to download the songs of our…
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If you have a cell phone with little memory or an Mp3 Player with little storage capacity, then you will know…
Autoruns is a free application designed by Microsoft, which will allow you to view and manage all the programs that are…
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IniRem in its new version 3.0, is a free utility created by InfoSpyware, it is ideally developed to unblock browsers…
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As commented in Useful Applications, there are times when we are using someone else's computer (internet cafe, school, work, etc.) and...
One of the qualities of Windows 7 is undoubtedly the fast and real-time access to any file,…
Neblinux, the free Software community in Colombia, has developed an ambitious project; Neblipedia, a complete portable encyclopedia that works…
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In previous articles we talked about System Explorer, a super free task manager for Windows, although we mentioned that the definition…
You've had your small business for quite some time and you still manage it by 'pen and paper', great, but why...
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You have a blog and you need to take screenshots so that your images accompany your content, well then instead…
Commonly, to format a USB memory (pen drives, flash memory, etc.), what we do is go to My Computer (Computer) and…
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As we well know, Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), is a particularly well-known Windows application in the XP version, the…
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When we have a very important file and we want to protect it from outside eyes, what we usually do is place a…
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Who does not remember Donkey Kong! It is a classic Nintendo game, surely there were many of us who…
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