Anyone who has set up a home or small office network will know how difficult it can be to manage and oversee what's going on. Propellerhead has been testing a freeware utility called The Dude, which displays all of…

Windows (all recent versions), has a little-used facility that lets you add your own notes to some types of files. As Propellerhead points out these are hidden from normal view but easily accessible and remain attached to the file,…

As regular readers may know Propellerhead is fascinated by all things radioactive and just couldn't pass up the chance to run a Nuclear power station? Fear not, the inevitable meltdowns were all virtual, using a Nuclear Power Plant simulator…

Okay, so worse things happen at sea, but don't you just hate it when you shut down your XP Computer, only to be confronted with error message boxes telling you that 'This Program has stopped Responding' and asking daft…

This neat little tip comes to us from Propellerhead reader Gavin Hatherell and it should appeal to anyone who has spent any length of time grubbing around the backside of their PC, hunting for sockets. Over to you Gavin. Most…

The range of a Wi-Fi connection varies but in most cases you're lucky to get more than 25 metres inside a building, less if there's a lot of metal or thick walls between your PC or laptop and the…

This Propellerhead Top Tip is actually an extension of one we published a while back, namely installing your printer twice, to trick Windows into thinking you have two separate printers. The 'second' printer can then be configured for a…

Not that you need reminding but Summer has just arrived, probably only for a few days but Propellerhead suggests that you should still make sure that your PC is well ventilated as a hot PC is an unhappy PC, which…

You can't take your desktop PC with you when you are away from home or the office, which is why God invented laptops, but there are plenty of occasions when even a portable PC is too much to lug…

There's always a moment of fear, when you've just downloaded a program from the Internet and you click on the file or .exe icon to install it. What if it contains a virus or something nasty that will crash…