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If you are looking for some themes for your version of Windows, be sure to check out the repository that Microsoft has. Some themes are available from the Microsoft Store, but there are a lot available at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop-themes-94880287-6046-1d35-6d2f-35dee759701e There are themes available for Windows 7, Windows 10 and Windows 11.
I’m always on the lookout for a good bootable hard drive cloning CD or USB utility. I recently came across Hiren’s BootCD PE, which seems excellent. It contains more than 50 different utilities. Check it out!
From Ghacks.net: Rescuezilla is a free open source disk imaging solution that supports data backups, restores and recovery actions. The application is operating system agnostic, as it needs to be put on an optical disc or an USB drive; one of the benefits that comes out of that, is that may access the application at …
My daughter has gotten into cross-stitching, and likes to make her own patterns. The Graph Paper Printer utility is a great tool for her.
“PDFsam Basic, a free, open source, multi-platform software designed to split, merge, extract pages, mix and rotate PDF files.” Give it a try…
I haven’t tried this myself yet, but ghacks posted about a program called Microsoft Windows and Office ISO Download Tool. It makes it pretty easy to download ISOs of all of the different Windows versions. You still need a licence key to activate them properly, but if your computer didn’t come with a restore CD, …
I haven’t tried this yet, but if you are interested in a free Windows disk cloning software package, check out Macrium Reflect Free. According to the site, the free version will do the following: Macrium Fast Imaging VSS Support for Data integrity Drag and drop user interface Reorder & resize partitions GPT support UEFI Support …
I run WordPress on half a dozen blogs. None of them get a lot of traffic, but they allow me to post about things I’m interested in, as well as keep in contact with certain people. Here are a some links to some good tutorials to do various things with WordPress. How to Install WordPress …
Ghacks has a nice article about a tool that will convert a Windows XP computer to a virtual machine VirtualXP is a free for personal use software that can turn an existing Windows XP system into a virtual machine that you can run on a newer version of Windows afterwards. It works by converting the …
C|Net has a nice article about how to find your Windows Experience Index in Windows 8.1. I followed the steps, and mine is 5.9 because of the hard drive.