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I’m using a very old keyboard that doesn’t have a physical Windows key — it does have a 5/180° connector and an AT/XT switch on the back — but I don’t want to completely miss out on the functionality of the Windows key. Is there some group of keys in Windows 7 Pro that simulates […]

  Possible Duplicate:  Clone a Hard Disk Content to Another Hard Disk   What’s the equivalent of SuperDuper on Windows? I want to replace my current hard drive with a new one so I imagine that I would want a program that does a bit-for-bit copy from one hard drive to another, right? Solution: Clonezilla

  Possible Duplicate:  Remote connection to a PC over internet   I’m looking for something that would allow me to control their computer and that wouldn’t be very hard to configure. I think I’ll only need Windows-to-Windows support. What do you recommend? Solution: I find TeamViewer to be a great choice.  The service is free

I would like to use a (small) SSD disk as a cache for a large hard disk. I realize there are hardware-based products that do this: HighPoint RocketHybrid HBA, Intel SmartResponse and others. There is only one software-only product that I could find: ExpressCache by Diskeeper: ExpressCache intelligently and automatically combines the best attributes of

I have several PDFs that are quite large (one is 80+ MB). Is there a free way to compress that PDF to a smaller size? Solution: There is also Free PDF Compressor. It gives you the option of using the Flate or RunLength compression algorithms as well as different compression levels.

I have a blog, and sometimes I’d like to show my readers something specific about computers. I’ve seen a lot of screen recording software, but all seem to save as video files. Do any save as an animated GIF? I know how to transform a small video into a .gif, but I believe that I

Currently we are using Google Talk as messenger at our work place. Now we are supposed to replace it with some LAN based messenger. It should have at least following features chatting ( if logs are stored some where than it is good ), File sharing. Thanks. Solution: you could run openfire it uses jabber

I would like to know a tool to enforce regular breaks from typing to avoid wrist pain. I have a preference for simplicity, unobtrusiveness (at least until break time comes), a small resource footprint, and, if possible, “non-ugliness”. Solution: Workrave. Cross-platform, simple, wonderful.

I have data and files on my system, running Windows, and want to make sure that I don’t lose all the data or information when it gets toasted, either by a power surge or corrupted medium. I’ve heard that I should look into some kind of archive tool. What should I be looking into here

I can sort files and directories in Windows Explorer by date modified. I always let recent files display first. But when I sort by date modified, directories are always displayed after the files. Is it possible to sort files by date modified, but display directories before files? Solution: I’ve been trying to do the same