Tag: Windows
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Stick any program to the icon tray
Here comes a small freeware utility program that does only one thing, but does it right. Trayconizer is used to put any Windows program into the icon tray (not only the ones allowing it explicitly). For example, you can put the NotePad program in the tray icon with a single shortcut containing something like: C:\Path\To\Trayconizer.exe…
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Open the bottle for Wine 1.0
After years of preparation and beta-phase, finally, Wine has been able to reach launch as Wine 1.0. Why is it significant? Because this is the software package designed to be able to run many Windows applications from a GNU/Linux distribution. If you want to switch to Linux, you may not be willing to abandon some…
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Wine is coming to Linux
Usually, I would not comment about upcoming software applications and tools, but today there is an rumour that may be very important. We all know that switching from Windows to Linux is a difficult move because we have been used to so many applications available on one Operating System but not on the other (in…
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Software galore
We never can get enough of them, but our computers are sometimes overflowing. Software applications are everywhere, but how to choose the right one for the task at hand? I built a real collection of pages where you will be able to find nearly all you can dream for nearly all computers: Five important security…
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Read/write Linux partitions from Windows
When you have a computer with multiple partitions on the same disk or several disks with different partitions, things start getting bad if one of them is a Linux Ext or Ext2 partition: Usually, you can’t access the Linux partition from your Windows computer, Microsoft totally ignore your disk/partition. In order to correct this, you…
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Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows
A good 2-part tutorial from C|net. Dual-Boot Windows and Linux, Step 1: Get Ubuntu Dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu Linux