MP3 files became very popular during the late 90s. It was the Napster and Winamp era. Many people has amassed thousands of music files during those times. They would download the MP3 files all night and then spend their days renaming and organizing them in separate folders. Those days are gone now, but many people Read More …
So I wanted to view some important documents that I had saved last year in the XPS file format. I thought Windows 10 already has XPS Viewer built inside it, but to my surprise, I could not open XPS documents in Windows 10 PC. Upon some investigation, I found out that Microsoft has decided to Read More …
If you are a professional, then you know how much of file processing you need in a day of work. You have to save the invoices in a folder, sort them and later print them for accounting purposes. You may even want to create a cloud backup of your files. All these file processing, if Read More …
When you download a file from the internet, it may become corrupt during the download or for any other reason. But you can verify the integrity of a file using its file hashes. You can calculate the hashes of files and then compare them with the hashes provided by the download website and if they Read More …
So you were working with some of your files and after finishing up the work, you want to delete them or move to another location on your hard drive, and what you see is an error message that the files are in use and cannot be moved or deleted. This is because the file is Read More …
If you have come across the problem of having many files with names that you do not understand, then you need a tool for batch renaming these files. There are many good file renaming tools such as Rename Us. It is a small tool for batch renaming multiple files. It allows you to add criteria Read More …
When packaging some files together in a ZIP archive to be sent or distributed online, some people like to make all the files have the same time and date. This is done mainly for the aesthetic reason but sometimes can also help with the programs that depend on the timestamp of the files. In Windows, Read More …
When I start my computer at work everyday, I need to open many work related applications – these are the exact same programs that I launch in the same order regularly. I have been using a batch script to launch everything automatically since forever. If you also have to go through the same rigmarole everyday Read More …
Sometimes you download files from the internet and they come with filenames that are not compatible with Windows operating system. If you use tools like Cygwin in Windows, then they may also end up creating files in Windows that have file names which are valid in Linux but are not allowed in Windows. Once these Read More …
There are many reasons why someone would want to block a program from running in their Windows computer. It could be that you do not want your kids to play a game on the PC during until their school examinations are over. Or perhaps you do not want a pesky computer program to keep running Read More …