Google Chrome Extension that is installed by Enterprise Policy does not allow a user to uninstall or remove those extensions since they have the rights to do that. Mostly anyone involved in an organization has an administrator of the system who manages these settings and extensions. But if you are part of an administrative designation, ... Read more
What is a REG file A REG file is a Windows Registry File with the extension .reg. This is a text-based file that is generated by exporting registry values and can also be used for adding or changing registry values. While you can use them to back up the registry (especially significant before making modifications), ... Read more
Windows registry file is, in fact, a database that contains all the information corresponding to all the hardware devices and the software programs installed on Windows operating system. It is a simple text file with .reg extension. You can perform multiple operations on Windows 10 registry file depending upon your needs. For example, you can ... Read more
By default Windows installs all programs into the C:\Program Files and C:\Program Files (x86) directories. If the hard drive you have the operating system installed on is running out of space though, or you just want to have the OS on a separate SSD, you might want to consider changing these default installation paths. Be ... Read more
With some help of the Windows registry you can now change the width of Windows explorer borders. This can be nice in terms of style but also really handy since it will become far more easier to grab borders to resize a window. To change border width, point your cursor to the bottom left corner ... Read more
The selection box that appears when you hold the left mouse-button and drag your mouse away is blue by default on all versions of Windows. However you can change this setting by using two registry values in Windows 7 and Windows 8. Open the registry by typing regedit into the Windows 7 menu search on ... Read more
Sometimes the situation might come up where a device that was working flawlessly before will stop doing so, even if you try everything - replugging it, reinstalling its drivers, rebooting the computer - but nothing will help. A possible cause for this is a driver filter that was either installed by any third party software ... Read more
Windows 7 offers the possibility to switch between preinstalled sound schemes and also create new ones and delete those again. What it does not provide however is a way to export and import those schemes to use them on other systems. There is a way to do this but it involves copying over all the ... Read more
Importing and exporting whole sound schemes becomes handy if you want to apply your schemes to different computers or setup your system anew and don't want to copy the whole Windows theme. Doing so proves trickier as one might think though, since sound schemes are not saved as some kind of file or package as ... Read more
Apart from the usual file defragmentation on Windows 7, there is another undocumented function that rearranges boot files to grant faster access on them, resulting in shorter boot times. The usual boot options can be viewed by entering defrag -? into a command line window (this can be done in any command line window; to ... Read more