DNS cache temporarily store name resolution requests of recently visited websites. This speeds up web browsing, as DNS information can be fetched from DNS cache instead of processing from the start. Incase DNS cache goes bad or corrupt, you can need to clear or flush DNS cache data. This
Make desktop icons smaller as ‘list view’ on Windows
Large and big size icons on Windows desktop taking too much space? You can easily tidy up desktop interface by reducing size of desktop icons and displaying them in neat "list view" format. Deskview is a portable tool for Windows that change desktop icon size and display format in single
Setup & use Norton DNS on Mac, Windows PC
Whenever you visit a website (like microsoft.com), its address is converted into respective IP address as computers computers only connect to IP addresses and not human-friendly names. Besides options of using Open DNS and Google DNS,you can also try Norton DNS. Besides faster web browsing
How to wake up computer from sleep, hibernation
Sleep and hibernation allows you to save on power when computer is not under active use. You can easily put Windows PC to sleep or hibernation when moving away for sometime. When you come back, you can wake up Windows PC from sleep or hibernation state at a click of button. There are
Delete hiberfil.sys hibernation file to recover drive space
Windows Hibernate function support hibernate feature on Windows operating system. If you do not use hibernate feature then you can disable this feature and save lot of hard drive space. Hibernate function creates hiberfil.sys file that store snapshot of Windows system at specific time for
Delete erroneous, undelete-able files on Windows
Are you getting error while trying to delete file on Windows computer? In some cases, files just do not delete or remove and continuously give error on any attempt for deletion. Thankfully, there is workaround to delete such erroneous / undelete-able files on the computer. Easy steps to
Open multiple Explorer windows simultaneously
Windows Explorer pane is one of most useful place on Windows PC for bird's eye view of all contents on the computer. By default, we can only open one Windows Explorer pane. We have already seen Windows Double Explorer program to open two Explorer panes. How about opening more (upto 4)
How to disable autorun, autoplay on Windows
Autoplay (also called Autorun) feature of Windows operating system allows you to automatically view contents of CD or DVD dics inside the media drive. By default, this feature is turned ON. However, if you want to disable autoplay (autorun) - then you can easily disable this feature from
Monitor bandwidth & upload, download speeds
Internet speed is very important aspect of an internet connection. To refine things further, both upload and download speeds are critical measure of goodness of net connection being used. You can easily monitor and view status of internet: sent (upload) and received (download) data packets
Bypass Recycle Bin to directly delete files, folders
By default, when you delete any file or folder on Windows computer - it is sent to Recycle Bin (unless you are using Shift + DEL keys shortcut). Do you want to directly delete files and folders without need to send them to recycle bin? You can easily configure such setting for direct
