January 2012
Monthly ArchivesHow to save and set application process priority automatically
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For seemingly forever, Windows has allowed the user to adjust the application’s process priority so that it receives more than it’s fair share of the system processor. While it’s generally discouraged, the processes priority can be adjusted from within Task Manager and it’s right-click context menu. At which point you are able to choose from priority ranging from Realtime to Low – all processes launch with a priority of Normal. Setting a user process as High priority is a manual task and must be set each time the application is launched. Prio is a light-weight … Continue Reading
How to add an ‘always on top’ option to any Windows application
Many applications benefit from the ability to keep their interface on top of all other open application windows. Unfortunately, few applications actually include this feature. While I’m of the opinion such a feature should be native to Windows, that’s just not the case today. Users needing such functionality might be interested in checking out Window On Top. Window On Top is a portable utility that extends the always on top feature to every software. While running, the functionality can be toggled on and off in any active application window with the keyboard shortcut CTRL+F8 or a drag-and-drop … Continue Reading
How to optimize the latency in your wireless network connection
Wireless networking is highly convenient and generally exhibits acceptable performance for most general purpose computer use. However, for some Windows users – more specifically, for some wireless network cards and drivers – the nature of wireless can introduce unwanted latency in the connection. Chances are you’d never notice these brief hiccups in web browsing or even file transfer. Instead, the problem manifests itself in any real-time network activity such as VOIP or online gaming. Windows will periodically scan the airwaves for new wireless networks that you may – but quite likely won’t – want to … Continue Reading
How to generate email notifications on hard drive errors
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure – or something to that effect! Hard drive errors or crashes can turn a good day bad, or a bad day horrific. That’s why it’s critical to do all that is possible to prevent disk failures before data loss occurs. The problem is monitoring your disk health is inconvenient and time consuming – often times data access errors are recorded in Windows Event Viewer. This is your first clue that something is not quite behaving well. How often do you peruse Event Viewer? Exactly! Disk … Continue Reading
Downloading all YouTube videos of a user, playlist, or channel
YouTube – the great time-sink of our generation. Many an hour is lost each day by millions of users watching content online, specifically on YouTube. Logistically it’s impossible to consume all the content you wish to watch – with playlists or user subscriptions it’s easy to inundate your senses with days worth of quality content. It’s not hard for it to quickly become impractical to view all the media while online. While all smartphones have the ability to view YouTube videos, if you depend on this feature and don’t have an unlimited data plan then … Continue Reading
