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Replace Notepad With Notepad++ or Any Other Text Editor of Your Choice

Notepad is a light-weight program suitable for users who need only very minimal text editing features. For advanced functionality, third-party editors like Notepad++ and Sublime Text are awesome with a lot of features built-in. If you’re looking how to replace the plain old Notepad with a third-party text editor of your choice (say, Notepad++), this … Read more

Process Monitor “Unable to write PROCMON23.SYS” Enabling Boot Logging

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It can also trace the entire boot process and save to a PML log file. When enabling the setting “Enable Boot Logging” from the Options menu in Process Monitor, the following error may pop up:Read more

Malwarebytes Tray Application Appears in Alt + Tab Switching Window

malwarebytes tray app in alt - tab window

After updating to Malwarebytes version 3.2.2, the “Malwarebytes Tray Application” window shows up in the Alt + Tab or Win + Tab task switcher window. This may be very annoying for users who use the task switcher frequently.Read more

Malwarebytes Real-Time Protection layers turned off at every startup

Malwarebytes Premium is an all-in-one security suite which guards the system from ransomware, exploits, malware and also provides web protection. In some systems, Malwarebytes Web protection module may get disabled, and the message Real-Time Protection layers turned off is shown in the notification area at every startup.Read more

Make Taskbar Translucent or Fully Transparent in Windows 10

make taskbar fully transparent or translucent

Windows 10 comes with a hidden, built-in setting to increase the taskbar transparency using the UseOLEDTaskbarTransparency registry value, as you may have already known. Here are two new third-party portable tools using which you can make your taskbar translucent, set gradient color, or make it fully transparent.Read more

Block Skype Ads by adding the Ad Server to Restricted Sites

If you’re a regular Skype user who finds the Skype chat window ads to be distracting, here is a neat way to disable the ads and the ad placeholders. The instructions apply to Skype 7 desktop app for Windows.Read more

TidyTabs adds Tabbed User Interface to any Program Window

TidyTabs is a program that brings tab support to all of your programs. You can add tabbed browsing capability to any program window, including File Explorer, Office applications, Wordpad, Notepad, etc.Read more

Find Which Program is Using Your Webcam Currently

Does your webcam indicator LED get turned on automatically without you doing anything? Are you’re worried if you’re being spied upon by some malware? Here is a neat way to find which program is using your webcam or microphone.Read more

Scanning your PC using Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) and Microsoft Safety Scanner

Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is a post-infection removal tool which is updated every month and rolled out through the Windows Update channel. Malicious software scanning runs as you install MSRT from Windows Update. You can also initiate scans manually whenever needed by running mrt.exe in the Windows\System32 directory.Read more

Get Notified When Windows 10 Brings a New Spotlight Image Every time [Lock Screen]

Windows Spotlight brings some amazing wallpapers for the Lock Screen, which you can save and use as your desktop background. By now, I’m pretty sure most users know how to view and store the lock screen images collection from the Assets folder.

Then I made a post on how to find the exact file name of the current lock screen wallpaper image in use, using the Registry Editor or a script to find the image file and save it to your Pictures folder automatically.Read more