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Defraggler, from Piriform (Yes, the same company that makes another one of my favorite apps — CCLeaner for Windows and MAC), provides more features than Windows’ built-in Disk Defragmenter. That includes scheduled defragging and the capability to defrag individual files and directories. When installing Defraggler, be sure to accept its offer to replace Windows Disk Defragmenter. After you install Defraggler, click Analyze. This checks your hard drive for fragmented files — in other words, over time files end up with data scattered across sectors and not in contiguous order....

How to Change the Chrome UI Back To get started, launch Chrome and enter the following path into the address bar: Now change the “UI Layout for browser’s top chrome” from Default to Normal and relaunch the browser. That’s all there is to it. Now you don’t need to worry about forcing yourself to accept the new design or finding a different Theme to make the browser more appealing. Without any theme changes, this is how Chrome looks with the updated interface – rounded address bar and tabs:...

Dropbox for Teams Overview Our previous review of Dropbox for Teams is a good place to start if you’re unfamiliar with the service, but the short story is this: Dropbox is one of the most popular (and in our opinion, the best) personal cloud storage services. Dropbox lets you sync all your files across the web, your desktop (Windows, Mac or Linux) and mobile devices (iPad/iPhone, Android, BlackBerry). It does so with so much simplicity that it almost feels like magic....

Many of us know Live.com as the search engine and new Online Services brand by Microsoft. Unfortunately for Microsoft however, like MSN before it Live.com has never been able to gain much ground on Yahoo! or GOOGLE in the area of “Search.” Although this is bad news for Microsoft, it’s GOOD news for us. :) You see, Microsoft may not have the Search Market Share it wants on Live.com but, what is does have is PILES AND PILES of Cash to throw at that “want!...

What you might not know is that there is a hidden, even more powerful way to close pesky processes in Windows 10: the taskkill command. The advanced task kill command gives you more control as you end processes and even works on tasks that refuse to close even after killing them in Task Manager. Oh, and we’ll be running this from the command line, so get your fingers ready....

Update: It is back up here in DC as of 9:00pm EDT Moments ago Facebook updated their Twitter page letting users know that they’ve “fixed the issue”, but so far I’ve still been unable to login. Unlike Twitter, when Facebook breaks it doesn’t even show a fail whale, it’s just down! As usual Twitter is being bombarded by related comments complaining about the outage. Is Facebook working for you? Drop a reply below with your location and whether or not you can access Facebook....

That’s the good news. The bad news is that the Verizon iPhone 4 will not be a 4G phone. Repeat, the Verizon iPhone will not be an LTE phone. Of course, the worst part of AT&T’s 3G network is its spottiness and unreliability, so AT&T turncoats may find relief in the arms of Verizon. But we’ll just have to wait and see how Verizon weathers the onslaught of Apple-loving smartphone users come February 10....

Adjust Print Quality to Save Ink When you have to print out a text document, you can save a considerable amount of ink by setting it to print in Fast Draft Quality. Every printer is different and the setting for this will be in different places. In this example I am printing a contract as a PDF. I I just need to see what’s on it, so printing in high quality is certainly not necessary....

Please insert a disk into Removable Disk The other day I was trying to install Windows 8.1 with Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool, and the install failed on my new 64GB flash drive. After that, no matter what version of Windows I tried to use the drive on, I kept getting these errors indicating the drive wasn’t getting recognized. Note: In this scenario, I am using a drive that has no data on it....

Unlike Microsoft’s other discount programs, Microsoft DreamSpark offers students FREE, NO-COST access to all of Microsoft’s development, server and designer tools including the following software titles: (as of the writing of this groovy Article) Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2003SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server ExpressVisual Studio 2008 Professional and Visual Studio 2005Visual Web Developer 2008 ExpressVisual C++ 2008 ExpressVisual C# 2008 ExpressVisual Basic 2008 ExpressRobotics Developer Studio 2008 R2CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008 R2XNA Game Studio 3....

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To reiterate, when you usually try to load a DOS program in Windows 7, you’ll see a message like the one in the screenshot below saying, “The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running.” Also, if you try to run the DOS program from the command prompt (CMD) in Windows, you’ll run into another “unsupported 16-bit application” error message. We’re going to fix that....

What is Google AdWords Express? Google Boost AdWords Express is a simplified version of Google AdWords that is targeted at local small business owners. Rather than going through a complicated setup process, AdWords Express uses your business categories and automatically optimizes each advertising campaign with keywords designed to reach the best audience possible. The search categories can be managed in your Google Places listing. This allows you to create a maximum of 5 separate listings for each business location that you control, though that could get expensive depending on the level of competition in the area....

“Should I get the HTC EVO or the iPhone…?” “The Samsung Galaxy Epic 4g or the Droid X…?” Those are the famous last words that usually end in a bloody fist fight between fans of both sides. But, what about the facts? Have you seen the Smartphone Comparison chart in the groovyPost forum? When I was deciding what phone to buy that thing was a life saver! I think someone at Google picked up on the idea, because that is just about exactly what the new Google phone gallery is....

Not only does this make it easier to get to the specific city you’re looking for, it also helps declutter the search results, since all of the results relevant to Yelp.com will be lumped into this search result. The breaking news about sitelinks, per Google, is that they have upgraded sitelinks from a simple list of links to a full array of sub-search results, replete with full URLs and a very tiny snippet of description....

Google Docs and Google Sheets When you start Google Drive on your device and try to edit a document or spreadsheet, you will get a notification like the one below, prompting you to get the new apps. This change is in place for both iOS and Android. If for some reason you didn’t get the notification, you can find Google Docs here and Google Sheets here for Android in the Google Play Store....

It took 884 photographs, months of planning, and 5.5 hours of labor to complete but Clay Bavor, Google Group Product Manager, and other Google employees created a GIANT Google Logo Mosaic using 4”x6” photographs. Where did they get the pictures? Google employed photographers of course. Last week Google updated its logo with a new look. You’re probably thinking “Huh.. it looks the same!” You’re right, except they’ve removed the shadows and improved the reflective lighting on each letter....

What You Will Need: To starting things off, let’s take a look at a groovyVideo I made which reviews the How-To steps below real-time. Following the video, I’ll review the steps in a typical step-by-step fashion as well. Photography Tips – Taking a photo of the sky: Do’s: Take several photos – Of the image you’re trying to capture. I usually will take a few dozen just to make sure I get the shot I’m looking for....

Photography Tips As referred to above, check out BrickMonkey’s Article about HDR Photography for details and tips that you’ll need. In his article he mentions taking a capture of 3 images with different exposures. Sadly enough on regular cameras or on mobile phones you can’t really do this, so you’ll have to shoot image by image to get the result. An HDR Image combines from 3 to 7 images together, but for our first try let’s use only three....

Personally, seeing that I do a lot of Windows 10 tweaking and hacking, so differential updates is not a feasible option when you need to install the latest Windows 10 Insider build on multiple machines and Virtual machines. Here’s how to get access to them with a few registry hacks. Restore the Option to Download ESD Files in Windows 10 Insider Build To restore the option of downloading ESD files, you will need to modify two registry keys called EnableUUPScan and SupportsUUP....