Not all PCMech readers are full of joy and happiness. Many are IT administrators, meaning they deal with whiny annoying "customers" every day. As such, they’re pretty darned bitter. We at PCMech recognize this and have introduced a new Dark Side membership program. It includes the following: A snazzy new white uniform, complete with laser rifle: ...

It should be noted up front that this method only covers software that is registered in Add/Remove in Windows. Other software (like PuTTY or JkDefrag which are standalone executables) won’t show up in a list like this. But if it’s in Add/Remove, it will. Why would you want to do this? There are several good reasons:You plan on upgrading from XP to...

The folks at Yahoo recently released a new email client which works on Windows, Mac or Linux. It is called Zimbra Desktop. Yahoo continues to hold sizable market share when it comes to online email accounts. Yahoo bought Zimbra in 2007. It was a good union because you could see Zimbra entering into the foray with Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Calendar to create a really...

A very useful command line tool which ships with Windows is Netstat. Netstat allows you to view all active network connections on your computer. This is a great way to make sure you don’t have anything unexpected on your computer sending or receiving network traffic. An alternate, more user friendly, version of Netstat is TCPView. From the web site’s...