Do you hate setting up new copies of Windows Live Writer with all of your account information and plugins? If so, be sure to check out this Live Writer plugin. It allows you to easily backup and restore those settings.

Microsoft provides you with a system utility (Disk Cleanup) which can clean up unused and temporary files. A portable freeware utility, called Windows CleanUp, does everything that Disk Cleanup does, but it does much more, and it’s much faster.

Google claims that their new public DNS service is faster, more secure and fairly private. I’ll fill you in on DNS and show you how to use this new service.

Windows Double Explorer allows you to view two or more folders in the same window. This makes dragging, dropping, copying, pasting and organizing so much simpler than the typical Windows Explorer. Here’s a detailed look at WDE.

Emsi Software claims that MalAware’s objective is to be a very small and very fast malware scanner. I believe they’ve succeeded. It’s only a 1mb file and it’s portable.

Now you can play the old arcade games at the Atari website. These are not clones, they’ve got the original code and have converted the games to a format you can play on the web.

In Window 7, the image thumbnail previews can get turned off by accident. This happened to me recently and I’ve learned to quickly return the image thumbnails to Windows folders.

TeamViewer allows you operate computers remotely, and in addition, it allows you to share files and carry on a text chat. There is a portable version available and a new beta version allows voice and video chats.

I don’t like the sponsored results and the textual ads in the default Google search results. I’ll show you how to banish these awful ads from your Google Chrome web browser search results.

I occasionally create my own gradient wallpapers and psychedelic wallpapers using MS Paint. It’s quick and easy once you figure it out. However, it’s not nearly as fast and simple as the wallpaper generator I’ve just found.

Let’s say that you are shopping at one of your favorite online retailers. You decide to make a credit card purchase and when you finish checking out, you see an offer to save money. Don’t click that offer until you read this. It could be a scam.

If you would like to share your internet connection wirelessly in your home or on the road, you could not ask for an easier way to do it.

Do you want to reinstall Windows XP on a machine that already has XP on it? If you back up the current activation keys, you won’t have to contact Microsoft later for a new product activation.

It’s fun to play computer jokes on your friends. Read on and I’ll tell you how to create one of the easiest, but most flexible pranks.

Many people worry what’ll happen to their data if they lose their little USB sticks. Recently I’ve been trying out a great program called SafeHouse Explorer. It’s keeping my data safe no matter who gets it.