Monthly Archives: October 2014

How to stop Wipe from running in the background?

A lot of software right now are using precious resources because they are running in the background. After a while they start clogging the system, making it slower and slower. Wipe, a free software for deleting unwanted browser history, cookies and lots of other junk on your computer, prefers to stay locked in the background and here’s how you put it back to its place.

Step 1: When you run the software, it will automatically check for unwanted files on your computer. It will take a little while so let it do its thing until it stops, then click on the “Settings” button on the left.

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Step 2: A new window will show up with a list of options on the left and their corresponding function on the right. Click on the “Wipe agent” option on the left and then uncheck the “Launch Wipe agent with Windows startup” box on the right. That is all! By the way, Wipe is great at what it dows and you can donload it from Filepuma.com.

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How to update your motherboard driver fast with 3DP Chip

Either if you didn’t bother to update your drivers when first available or you just installed a new operating system, finding the right drivers is a nuisance and a time wasting operation. However, with a free and small piece of software called 3DP Chip you can do this in no time.

Step 1: Download the free software from Filepuma.com by clicking on the green “Download Now” button. Install the software but don’t just click blindly on the “Next”, “Yes” and “Accept”. At one point you will be asked if you want to install another product too so. Being careful will get you off the hook. After installation, the program will run automatically.

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Step 2: On the left side you will see the main hardware components: CPU, Motherboard, Video card, multimedia and Ethernet cards. The software will automatically collect the right data from your computer.

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Step 3:  The only thing you need to do is just click on the one component you want to update the driver for, in our case, the motherboard. A new window will open on your browser indicating the link to your download.

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How to Install Additional Components of Foobar2000

Foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.  There are some useful and important components in the installer, but you may miss them during your installation. What should we do to fix this? Here is the instruction.

 

1. Open the foobar2000 preferences dialog.

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2. Go to the Components page.

3. Click the “Install…” button and select the component archive, or simply drag it to the list.

4. Press “OK”, you will be prompted to restart foobar2000 in order to load the newly installed component.

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