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Devices drive harddisk Icon

Create Report with Information on All Drives with Letters - AutoHotkey Script

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This article presents an AutoHotkey (V1) script that creates a plain text report with information about all drives in a system that have a drive letter, such as C, D, E, etc. The information in the report is Type of drive, Status, Capacity, Free Space, File System, Volume Label, and Serial Number.
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Device usb drive Icon

Detect USB Drive Insertion and Deletion - AutoHotkey Script

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This article presents an AutoHotkey (V1) script that detects when a USB drive is inserted or removed. It displays a pop-up dialog and makes a logfile entry in each case. It provides a system tray (notification area) icon with context menu choices to open the logfile or terminate (exit) the script.
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A Free and Effortless Way to Save Money -

A Free and Effortless Way to Save Money

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A short review of a browser extension that effortlessly saves you money at participating online stores, like Amazon, Microsoft, and many others.
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Downloads

Automatically download files from the web - AutoHotkey Script

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In a recent question here at Experts Exchange about Windows 10 automation, a member asked for a solution "to download one by one automatically" 10 specific files from the Internet. This article presents an AutoHotkey script with the solution, enhanced to allow any number of files to be downloaded.
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Sample Title Case Conversion

Exclude words when converting to "Title Case" - AutoHotkey Script

In a recent question here at Experts Exchange, a member wants to enhance an AutoHotkey script that performs "Title Case" conversion. The enhancement is to allow specification of words that are excluded from the capitalization (conjunctions and prepositions). This article presents such a solution.
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Nine-Monitor Configuration

Keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) to move mouse in multi-monitor configuration - AutoHotkey Script

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In configurations with multiple monitors, it can be difficult and time-consuming to move the mouse pointer to a particular monitor. This article presents a script written in AutoHotkey that defines hotkeys — such as Alt+Ctrl+1, Alt+Ctrl+2, etc. — to move the mouse easily and quickly to any monitor.
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AutoHotkey Switch-Case

AutoHotkey Switch-Case

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Many programming languages have a Switch–Case capability. Since its first beta in 2003, AutoHotkey has not had one. Finally, in the recent 28-Sep-2019 release of Version 1.1.31.00, it now has Switch–Case. This article discusses it and shows a sample usage as applied to a previous post here at EE.
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Windows Update: Breaking News August 2019

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What's in August Patch Tuesday that breaks stuff
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MoveAllWindows

How to move all windows on one monitor to another monitor with one keystroke - AutoHotkey Script

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An EE member wants to move all open windows at once (not one window at a time) from a primary monitor to a secondary one by pressing a hotkey. Bonus: another hotkey that goes in the other direction — move all windows from the secondary to the primary monitor. This article presents such a solution.
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Start.Me Bookmarks Manager

Start.Me - An excellent Free and very useful Bookmarks Manager

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This article is about an excellent bookmarks manager I've been using that I thought deserved some promotion to make more folks aware of its existence. Free to use and very useful indeed. Enjoy...
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DNS Benchmark from Steve Gibson -

Improve website response times easily with DNS Settings

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Your configured DNS nameservers may be impeding your Internet experience. Improve the response times you get from websites by using a faster DNS Server. This article shows you how to both find better DNS servers to use, as well as how to configure your copy of Windows 7 and 10 to use them.
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BootSafe Software Review -

BootSafe - The "easiest" way to Boot Windows into Safe Mode

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Review of a small standalone freeware utility that is designed to remove the guesswork in trying to get Windows 10 (and all other versions of Windows) to boot into various Safe Mode configurations. Includes a short interview with the author of the program.
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Windows 10 Media Creation Tool

Create a Bootable Windows 10 device using the Media Creation Tool (MCT)

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Step by step instructions, including screenshots, showing you how to create a bootable Windows 10 installation USB using Microsoft's Media Creation Tool to upgrade to the latest version build of Windows 10. Enjoy...
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File Viewer Plus 3

Review: File Viewer Plus - The ultimate file viewer and editor!

How many times do you come across a file format that your computer doesn't recognize? Read on for a great solution I've found and been using myself, which is a lot more than just a file format viewer. Enjoy...
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Fix Google Chrome Issues

Resolve Chrome Issues 99% of the time using this method!

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I see people having issues with the Chrome browser so often that I decided to write this article on how to definitively determine problems you may be encountering with Google Chrome. I hope it helps you out...
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FoxyTab

How to save the names and URLs of open Firefox tabs in a plain text file - Redux

This article shows how to save the names and URLs of open Firefox tabs in a plain text file with FoxyTab, a Featured Extension. I tested it in the latest Firefox Quantum release (61.0.1 on this article's publication date), both 32-bit and 64-bit, and in Windows 7, 8.1, and 10 — all worked perfectly.
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PaperPort Splash Screen

What to do when PaperPort crashes, hangs, or fails to start - display settings and non-existent drives

Sometimes PaperPort will not even open. It displays the splash screen (above) and exits, or it may show an "Application Crash" dialog before exiting (sometimes with a dump, sometimes not). There are many reasons for this problem. This article discusses several of them and offers possible solutions.
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PaperPort Splash Screen

How to fix: PaperPort shows the splash screen then immediately closes - cannot run PaperPort

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Sometimes PaperPort will not even open. It displays the splash screen (above) and exits, or it may show an "Application Crash" dialog before exiting. There are many reasons for this, but a recent cause that has reached epidemic levels is due to an issue with Firefox. This article offers a solution.
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Stellar Outlook Toolkit

Review of "Stellar Toolkit for Outlook" by Andrew Leniart

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This is a comprehensive review of a bundled Toolkit designed for use by IT Professionals and End Users to help Microsoft Outlook fans manipulate Outlook files and repair some common problems. Enjoy...
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Gmail by Google

HOW TO: Solve a Repeating Password Error when Setting up IMAP with Gmail in Outlook

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Read this tutorial to learn how to fix repeating password error prompts when setting up Gmail IMAP with Microsoft Outlook. The entire process is described with step by step, illustrated instructions. Enjoy...

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