If you regularly need to switch between two settings on your printer (i.e. portrait and landscape mode, etc.) when printing from different applications, you can avoid a lot of messing around with thie tip from Propellerhead, which makes Windows believe…

If you share your PC with others you obviously know that it is next to impossible to keep your personal files and data private, but there is a way. The trick from Propellerhead is to use a built-in Windows facility…

Strange as it may seem there are some people who just don't like Microsoft, and we hasten to add that Propellerhead is not one of them. MS products and their funny little ways have kept us in gainful employment for…

If you have a broadband connection and read a lot of PDF (Portable Document Format) documents you may well find that the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in can be a quite slow to open in Firefox, which can be quite frustrating….

Windows XP is fairly forgiving but if you routinely have a lot of folder windows open you may find that Windows crashes or freezes when you switch between folders. This is due to the way Windows manages RAM memory; each…

Buried inside the Outlook Express Address book there's been a facility that for many years that only worked if you lived in the US. Propellerhead rediscovered it the othe other day. It's on the Home page, where you enter your…

On most PCs there a useful but little-known hidden diagnostic utility that can tell you a lot about your PC, including such diverse things as the version of your BIOS to CPU speed, memory capacity, display and sound adaptors. Using…

 Microsoft Word has lots of useful undocumented features, here’s one from Propellerhead that will save you a lot of time and trouble. The next time you want to replace a chunk of text forget the backspace or delete keys,…

Propellerhead has discovered a little known and very well hidden feature in Microsoft Word that lets you create eye-catching watermarks that can be used to identify or distinguish your documents by lightly printing a background image or words behind…

Here are a few quick tips from Propellerhead to tidy up the Outlook Express desktop and make it easier to use. You should know by now what all of the icons and buttons do, so switch off the text labels…