Double Driver

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Double Driver [paypal_donation_button]   Even if you’re religious about backing up important data, I’ll wager you never thought to back up all your drivers. That’s a worrisome oversight. After all, if your system ever suffers a major meltdown, you’ll need mouse, printer, video, and other drivers to get everything up and running again. And take…

Spybot Anti-Beacon

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Spybot Anti-Beacon is a standalone tool which was designed to block and stop the various tracking (telemetry) issues present inWindows 10. It has since been modified to block similar tracking functionality in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems. Anti-Beacon is small, simple to use, and is provided free of charge. It was…

Start an Application Assigned to a Specific CPU in Windows 7, 8, or Vista

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Windows has an option that lets you start an application and set the CPU affinity, which assigns the application to run on a specific CPU in a dual-core system. To start an application you have to pass the affinity flag to the start utility in the command prompt. For instance, if you wanted to start notepad assigned to…