Portable – Daves Computer Tips

Xbox Rumours Persist Amid Huge Game Pass Price Hikes

Marc Thomas — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:54:30 +0000

Over the weekend, a Reddit user started a rumour that Microsoft had cancelled the next Xbox console, and the gaming community went into a tailspin. Microsoft then replied that things were not ‘up in the air’ and that the company is actively investing in its first-party consoles, etc. It takes a lot for a trillion-dollar company to make a statement refuting rumours, so read into that what you will.

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Move Installation Folders To A Different Drive

Jim Hillier — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:00:49 +0000

A relatively new portable freeware called FolderMove provides a simple/easy method for transferring installation/application folders from one drive or partition to another drive or partition. With the price of SSDs coming down to a more reasonable level, many users will have migrated their system over from a traditional HDD to a much faster SSD. However, on a dollar per gigabyte basis…

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40 Best Portable Freeware – 2024

Jim Hillier — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 05:41:10 +0000

Best Free Portable System Cleaning & Maintenance PrivaZer – Superior cleanup and privacy tool Wise Disk Cleaner – Safe and very effective disk cleaning tool – Wise Disk Cleaner Review Patch My PC – Excellent automatic software updater supports 300+ applications (Patch My PC Review) Geek Uninstaller – […]

CCleaner vs Wise Disk Cleaner vs HiBit

Jim Hillier — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:04:14 +0000

Many years ago we published a series of articles pitting the then ubiquitous CCleaner against several free alternative junk file cleaners. The purpose of that exercise was to try to convince CCleaner users that there are more effective free alternatives available. Since then, and since Avast acquired CCleaner, it has, in my opinion, gone further downhill. Every time I have written an article…

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How I Rescued A Laptop With Windows To Go

Marc Thomas — Wed, 01 May 2024 04:01:22 +0000

The other day a customer gave me a laptop for repair, saying that her daughter had dropped it and it would no longer boot. The laptop in question is an HP Stream model 14-AX022LA of meagre specifications that includes a Celeron dual-core CPU, 4GB of memory, and 32GB eMMC, both of which are apparently soldered to the motherboard. It also has three USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI port, and an SD card slot.

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Local Send – Exchange Files Wirelessly

Marc Thomas — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:03:00 +0000

Local Send is a free, open-source, cross-platform program for sending files across your local Wi-Fi network. How many times have you sent files to yourself over WhatsApp, email, and other applications? Heck, even Phone Link/Link To Windows is limited to only saving files from your phone to your desktop. Local Send can be set up in seconds and should be installed on each device that needs to be…

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A Quick Look At QuickLook

John Durso — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 04:01:27 +0000

How to add a MacOS-type QuickLook file preview to Windows. Anyone who has used a Mac is familiar with a handy feature called QuickLook. On a Mac, you can preview a file by pressing on the spacebar. Videos will start playing, documents will be shown, and images will just pop up. It’s a lot faster than opening the file. However, this feature is not in Windows.

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Uninstalr: New Free Powerful Uninstaller

Jim Hillier — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:05:05 +0000

Uninstalr is a relatively new free and powerful uninstaller with a portable version available. We are already spoilt for choice with uninstallers but I thought I’d take a look at this new offering anyway and was suitably impressed. Uninstalr is available in both installable and portable versions. The portable version consists of a single executable weighing in at a mere 4.00MB and it’s the…

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How To Send Full Size Images In WhatsApp

Marc Thomas — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 04:39:43 +0000

Have you ever noticed that when you send a photo in WhatsApp the end result is a much degraded picture? This is because the images are automatically resized and compressed. For example, a 4000 x 1868 pixels image (1.95MB) when sent via WhatsApp will become a 1600 x 747 pixels (221KB) image which is of considerably lower quality than the original. The same applies to video and I know this because I…

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Quickly Change DNS Servers With DNSJumper

Jim Hillier — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 04:02:12 +0000

DNSJumper is portable freeware that allows users to quickly and easily change between DNS servers. DNSJumper also provides a quick and simple method to flush the DNS cache, which can occasionally be necessary when experiencing issues connecting to certain websites. Flushing the DNS cache isn’t all that difficult to do in Windows, merely requiring a simple command entered into a Command Prompt…

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Are You Using The Optimal DNS Server?

Jim Hillier — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 04:01:45 +0000

An often-used analogy to explain the Domain Name System is that it serves as the phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly computer hostnames into IP addresses. For example, the domain name www.example.com translates to the address 93.184.216.34 ~ Source Wikipedia The DNS (Domain Name System) has been an integral part of the Intent since 1985. DNS translates domain names to IP…

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CPix: Free Portable Image Viewer/Converter/Resizer/Encrypter

Jim Hillier — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 05:03:11 +0000

CPix is a small, free portable photo viewer that can also encrypt, resize, edit, convert from one format to another, and much more. For a full rundown on all CPix features visit FileFriend CPix Feature List The CPix download consists of a 2MB Zip folder extracting to 4.5MB. Simply double-click the extracted executable to run the software: As you can see from the above screenshot…

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2 Free & Portable Remote Desktop Applications

Jim Hillier — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 05:08:56 +0000

A review of two free (open-source) and portable alternatives to Team Viewer. I’m pretty sure almost everyone would be aware of TeamViewer which is free for personal use and the most popular remote access software on the planet. However, here are two free (open-source) and portable alternatives. Both scan 100% clean through Virus Total. In my experience, one of the most critical aspects of any…

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Start Everywhere: Free Start Menu Alternative

Jim Hillier — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 05:13:51 +0000

Start Everywhere is a free & portable Start Menu alternative that can be run either as a replacement for the Windows native Start Menu or as well as. Start Everywhere is highly customizable, both in terms of display and content, and can be set to display anywhere on the screen. The download consists of a mere 712 KB single executable that scans 100% clean through Virus Total. At first run…

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