How to Declutter Your windows Context Menu [windows Tip]
windows tip: Whether you use them or not, many applications install superfluous entries to your windows right-click context menu resulting in a cluttered mess. The How-To Geek weblog details how to cl ....... Read more 13 hours ago
Are you a PC? Get it on your chest at the I’m a PC Store
Microsoft's "I'm a PC" ads have drawn decidedly mixed reviews. Its self-conscious campaign to counter Apple's effective Mac vs. PC commercials has got the geek community talking, but I'm not sure it c ....... Read more 19 hours ago
Microsoft offering free security program in 2009
Microsoft is going to kill off its windows Live OneCare consumer security suite and replace it in the second half of next year with a new, free product that currently bears the code-name of Morro. Th ....... Read more 1 day ago
Hot Corners Adds Actions to Desktop Corners [Featured windows Download]
windows only: Hot Corners, a free utility for windows desktops, adds the "hot corners" abilities of OS X's Expose system to any windows desktop. The system tray utility can assign actions like minimiz ....... Read more 1 day ago
Iconize windows Vista's Taskbar (Sort of ala windows 7) [windows Vista]
windows Vista only: If you like the look of the icon-only taskbar in the windows 7 Preview, you can get (almost) the same thing in Vista. The Intowindows tech site explains that using a free utility, ....... Read more 9 days ago
Get the windows 7 Calculator in Vista [Featured windows Download]
windows Vista only: We took a liking last week to the windows 7 calculator and its many uses for serious mathletes, as well its templates for calculating mortgages, salaries, and other real-world numb ....... Read more 9 days ago
Install the windows Vista Sidebar in XP [Featured windows Download]
windows only: If you're in no hurry to adopt windows Vista but you've taken a shine to the Vista Sidebar, Joshoon over at Deviant Art has uploaded a port of the actual application to windows XP. Usin ....... Read more 3 days ago
windows 7, Vista, and XP Bootup Benchmarks Updated [windows Startup Showdown]
Last week we timed the windows 7 Preview, XP, and Vista's startup times on a single PC triple-booting the three generations of operating system. However, our tests had their flaws, we made a big boo- ....... Read more 9 days ago
Aero Shake Clears Your Pre-windows 7 Desktop [Exclusive Lifehacker Download]
windows only: Free utility Aero Shake brings the windows 7 Aero Shake feature—which we previewed last week—to your pre-windows 7 computer. Like the new windows 7 feature, shaking the activ ....... Read more 9 days ago
Iconize windows Vista's Taskbar (Sort of Like windows 7) [windows Vista]
windows Vista only: If you like the look of the icon-only taskbar in the windows 7 Preview, you can get (almost) the same thing in Vista. The Intowindows tech site explains that using a free utility, ....... Read more 9 days ago
Parallels 4 Released, 50% Faster than Parallels 3 [Featured Mac Download]
Mac OS X only: The original windows-on-Mac virtualization software Parallels—which we've used to run windows and Mac apps side-by-side, set windows programs as defaults on a Mac, and boot our Bo ....... Read more 8 days ago
Treesize Free is a Simple Disk Space Visualizer [Featured windows Download]
windows only: We've previously highlighted some disk space visualization tools with all kinds of neat graphics, but Treesize Free shoots for just the opposite—a clean, simple interface showing h ....... Read more 8 days ago
Transmute Transfers and Backs Up Bookmarks Between Browsers [Featured windows Download]
windows only: Some browsers stash all your bookmarks and their metadata in a single folder that's easy to import to any other browser. For everything else, Transmute makes the work of shuttling bookm ....... Read more 8 days ago
AVG update cripples some windows XP systems
(CNET)
CNET - On Tuesday an update for AVG 8 suggested that a windows system file is a Trojan horse, and users who delete the file form the system could leave their windows XP systems endlessly rebooting or ....... Read more 8 days ago
D-Link DSM-330 DivX-Connected HD Media Player Review
With the massive influx of digital media in the past decade or so, consumers have become aware of the need for some way to use their media somewhere other than a computer. More specifically, we want ....... Read more 4 days ago
This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
Live Mesh Adds Mac, windows Mobile Clients (Mac, windows, windows Mobile)"Live Mesh, the cloud-based windows Live service that can synchronize files to the cloud or across computers, has gotten quite ....... Read more 4 days ago
DeskAngel Helps You Manage Your windows Desktop [Featured windows Download]
windows only: If you're looking for help managing a mess of windows on windows, it might be worth your time to check out DeskAngel. With sixteen features (with two bonus features for windows 2000 user ....... Read more 7 days ago
Ooops: AVG thinks key windows file is a Trojan
At least once a month - either via e-mail or on the Technology Bytes computer help show I co-host - I hear from users who have gotten into trouble because they didn't keep up with patches and fixes fo ....... Read more 8 days ago
Linkpost | 11.11.2008
Updated 6:11 a.m. ? windows 7: faster or just smarter? - The early build feels zippier, but is it an illusion? Keep in mind this is a pre-beta version of Win7. Also windows 7: Perception becomes reali ....... Read more 8 days ago
This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]
When there's too much Lifehacker and too little time, switch to our trimmed-down top stories feed to skip the extras and get right to the good stuff. Don't care about windows-only downloads or the iPh ....... Read more 5 days ago