tweaks

Stop Windows From Restarting Your Computer After Updates

Sometimes, Windows downloads important updates and decides it’s going to restart your computer, whether you like it or not. Here’s how to disable that behaviour.


Fix The Biggest Google+ Annoyances With These Userscripts

Last week at Google I/O, the company’s social network received a facelift. In some ways, it looks great, but it also introduced a slew of new problems. Enter userscripts to clean things up.


Keep Windows’ Blue Screen Of Death From Automatically Restarting

In the event of a serious problem with Windows, a blue-screen error code can help you figure out what’s wrong. If your system reboots too quickly to see what the code is, disable automatic restarts.


Stop Quicktime And Preview From Auto-Restoring What You Left Open

Mac: Auto-restore works great when you want to pick up where you left off, but how many times do you leave open a photo or video you actually want to see again when you re-open Preview or Quicktime? A couple of terminal commands can disable this annoying — and potentially embarrassing — feature.


Bring Back The Merge Folder Dialog In Windows 8

In Windows 7, when you copy a folder to a destination that contains a folder with the same name, you’ll get an alert that asks you if you want to skip the folder, merge the two or cancel. In Windows 8, Microsoft took that dialog away and just does the merge without asking. Here’s how to get that control back.


YouTweak Fixes All Kinds Of YouTube Annoyances

Chrome: YouTube has its share of annoying behaviours, and plenty of extensions and scripts exist to correct those behaviours. YouTweak is another tool for your arsenal, but it takes on some newer annoyances, including subscription videos and history.


EXperience Offers Useful Tweaking Tools For Rooted Android Phones

Android 4.0+ (rooted): One of the best things about having a rooted phone is that you can really get your hands dirty tweaking it. eXperience is a new app that lets you overclock your phone’s CPU, give you independent volume controls, and control music with the volume buttons.


Add Any Shortcut To My Computer With This Simple Tweak

If you want a few more options for getting around in My Computer (or just “Computer” as its known in Windows 7 and beyond), you can add anything to this page by placing shortcuts in a little-known folder. Depending on what version of Windows you’re running, this folder may be in a different place, but here’s the quickest way to get there.


Preme Adds Useful Tweaks To Window Management In Windows

Windows: Preme adds a collection of useful tweaks to window management on Windows, including the ability to scroll windows without clicking on them. We featured Preme once before, but it bears repeating now that Windows 8 is out and this app has been updated with a nicer interface.


Market Helper Enables Incompatible Apps On Rooted Android Phones

Android (rooted): Every once in a while, you hit up the Play Store only to find that the app you want “isn’t compatible with your device”. Want to try it anyway? Market Helper gives you the power to do so.


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