Windows 7 isn’t the all-new operating system that some people make it seem to be. But it’s a heck of a lot better than Vista. And Windows 7 does have some interesting and useful new features. One of them is something called the Troubleshooting Center. As you can see from the screen shot above, the Troubleshooting Center in… Read More »
This image provided by The DNS Changer Working Group (DCWG) shows the checkup webpage. It will only take a few clicks of the mouse. But for hundreds of thousands of computer users, those clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing their connections this July. Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers… Read More »
Most computer manufacturers don’t include Windows installation disks with their computers these days. Instead they give you a recovery DVD or put a hidden recovery partition on your hard drive. The trouble with these is they only give you one choice — to recover your computer back to the state it was in the day you purchased it.… Read More »
Microsoft’s free SyncToy originally appeared as part of the Windows XP PowerToys package. While most of the old XP PowerToys passed on to the big bit bucket in the sky, SyncToy has been improved quite a bit from the PowerToys days – it now comes in 32bit and 64bit flavors — so make sure you download the right… Read More »
We have Dropbox accounts, SpiderOak accounts and SugarSync accounts. And next week (rumor has it) Google will announce it’s own Dropbox clone with 5GB of free space — and we’ll probably get one of those too. Online storage is convenient, relatively safe (as long as your passwords are strong) and accessible from just about any connected device. You… Read More »
This tip was submitted to us by Marvin and it is a timely tip And it applies to all versions of Windows too! One of the most important Windows utilities is Task Manager. And there may be times, when you cannot access Task Manager in the usual ways (right-clicking on your taskbar selecting Task Manager from the menu).While… Read More »