When I was working in IT I sometimes dealt with support requests that involved the caps lock key. Users were complaining that they could not enter their password, or that they locked their account even though they were sure that they had entered the right password, or that their username was displayed in upper case [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

Delays during software installations in Windows are something that many Windows users experience from time to time. One of the most common causes is the spawning of an installation window in the background, especially if it is waiting for user input. Installations won’t commence until the user interacts with that window, which is bad if [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

The Windows XP operating system displays several user related system folders in the My Computer overview. These system folders include Shared Documents and user folders. Some users, especially those who are working on single user computer systems, might want to get rid of these folders to receive a better overview of the connected hard drives [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

MSConfig, which stands for Microsoft System Configuration Utility, is a administrative tool that gets distributed with the Windows operating system. It has been designed by Microsoft to provide quick access to several system settings, files and parameters like startup items, Windows services or ini files like boot.ini or system.ini. MSConfig can be accessed from the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

System administrators might want to limit the use of external USB flash drives by making them read only. This can actually be useful in several situations like preventing users from copying local data to the external device or preventing malicious software from spreading on a computer network using those flash drives. The Windows operating system [...]

Categories: Software, Uncategorized, Windows

The Windows XP Start Menu is divided into two parts. The left part can contain custom links to folders and applications while the right part is more or less static. It points to user folders like My Documents or the Control Panel of the Windows operating system. It is possible to change some of the [...]

Categories: Windows

The Edit option pops up in Windows after right-clicking a file type in Windows Explorer. Windows associated one software program that can be used to edit that file type. For image files it is usually Microsoft Paint while text documents are usually opened in Notepad. Those applications are set in the Windows Registry where they [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Some software uninstallers leave lots of traces behind. This can be files in the program directory, in a Windows folder but also in the Windows Registry. There are uninstallers like Revo Uninstaller that will automatically scan the Registry and specific folders in Windows for traces of an uninstalled program helping the user to get rid [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The Windows Registry is of uttermost importance to the Windows operating system. Malicious software makes use of the capacities of the Windows Registry regularly by changing system settings and adding malicious scripts to the system startup process. Many security software programs do not protect the Windows Registry from those dangers which is why running an [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows