Category Archives: Windows Tips

How to customize the Command Prompt in Windows 10

How to customize the Command Prompt in Windows 10 One of our theories as to why some people find the command prompt foreboding is that it’s black and white; it looks too geeky — too DOS-like, and too arcane for many Windows users. B Windows 10 allows you to easily customize your command prompt by changing the background… Read More »

A Tutorial: Creating a Windows 10 DVD for Upgrade

A Tutorial: Creating a Windows 10 DVD for Upgrade It’s easier than you think! Windows 10 is available for free to anyone using Windows 7 or Windows 8. If you have a slower internet connection, or have tried to do a direct install of Windows 10 only to have an error, your best option is to create a Windows… Read More »

How to get Windows help from Microsoft

How to get Windows help from Microsoft How many of you knew that you can get help from Microsoft by phone in less than five minutes (usually)? EB, put down your hand, you did not know this! And to be honest, it’s only free if your problem is minor and easy to fix. You can get support for… Read More »

Windows 10 has a great right-click menu

Don’t forget! Windows 10 has a great right-click Start menu too Windows 10 Windows 10 has a lot of great features, and we’re discovering more every day. One of the features we like about Windows 10, obviously, is the return of the familiar start menu which is actually more configurable than any previous Windows start menu. One of… Read More »

Change your start menu and taskbar colors in Windows 10

How to change your start menu and taskbar colors in Windows 10 You have a beautiful desktop, pretty autumn leaves mostly yellow and orange with a little brown and red. Looks great. However your start menu background looks awful – looks like pooey brown. Ugly! (Is pooey a word?). How on Earth did your Windows 10 start menu… Read More »

Have you ever met Windows 10’s Getting Started?

Have you ever met Windows 10’s Getting Started? Yeah, I know. It used to be when Windows had Help section or Getting Started with Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1, we’d all snicker because it was nothing but a bunch of unhelpful gibberish written by some overpaid geek English major for whom Microsoft had no other use. So they stuck geeks with… Read More »