The recently released action role-playing game, Fallout 4 has become extremely popular. It is available for PC and game consoles. On PC, it has a number of issues you might face. One of the most annoying issues is invisible locks. Once you reach the lock picking stage, the screen fades out but no lock appears anywhere to interact with! Read the article to know what causes this issue and a workaround.
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Fallout4 – set a non standard display resolution
The recently released action role-playing game, Fallout 4 has become extremely popular. It is available for PC and game consoles. On PC, it has a number of issues you might face. One of the issues is that you have a very limited list of pre-defined display resolutions. If your native display resolution is not listed in the game preferences, here is how you can set it.
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How to run Fallout 4 fullscreen on 4:3 display
The recently released action role-playing game, Fallout 4 has become extremely popular. It is available for PC and game consoles. On PC, it has a number of issues you might face. One of the issues is missing support of 4:3 screens. The game does not offer any option to select a usable resolution for screens with 4:3 aspect ratio to run it fullscreen.
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Get the excellent AquaSnap software for 50% off (limited time offer)
Here is good news for all Winaero readers. Today and tomorrow, you will be able to get the excellent software, AquaSnap for half of its original price. Here are the details of the offer.
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Download Colorful animated cursors for Windows
Celebrate the holiday season with a new cursor pack for Windows which spruces up your boring, regular mouse pointers with rich, exciting, colorful, animated cursors.
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Control your Windows system volume and balance from notification area (system tray)
In Windows Vista, Microsoft rewrote their volume tray applet and discarded the one used up to Windows XP. While the new one has its advantages like being able to adjust per-app volume, the old volume control provided easy access to the left speaker and right speaker balance. Winaero coded a simple FREE utility few years ago to restore this to modern versions of Windows like Windows 7, Windows 10 and Windows 8.1/8.
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Get Windows 10 Snap features in Windows 7 and XP using AquaSnap
In Windows 7, Microsoft added Aero Snap which made rearranging windows easier even though the underlying abilities were present in Windows since Windows 95. In Windows 10, Microsoft introduced more features for snapping windows. But Windows 10 as we know from experience has far too many issues and is nowhere near the quality of Windows 7. So for those who wish to continue using Windows 7, here's a good news. With a free app, you can get some Windows 10 Snap features on Windows 7.
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How to set the BIOS date in VirtualBox
VirtualBox is my virtualization software of choice. It is free and feature-rich, so all my virtual machines are created in VirtualBox. In this article, we will see how to set the BIOS date for a VirtualBox VM.
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Fix Gimp cannot save PNG image
If you are a Gimp user, sooner or later you will face the issue when Gimp cannot save a PNG image. It creates a file from the Save dialog, but it will be of zero size and Gimp shows an error. Here is how you can fix it.
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How to change the background color of Pidgin windows
Pidgin is a very popular open source instant messenger which is available for various operating systems like Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Pidgin supports several protocols and consumes very light amount of system resources compared to bloated apps like Skype. Pidgin also does not show ads and is very stable. However, customization is not its strongest attribute. It has only basic options. In this article, I would like to share how you can change the background color of Pidgin windows.
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