When your computer is running at peak performance you probably won’t think twice about downloading some piece of software on the Internet. Most of the time, applications are safe and advanced computer users know how to download software safely and choose trusted download sites. However, sometimes it’s possible to let our guard down and accidently [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Windows allows you to check your hard drive for errors so that these errors can be repaired. This is called the chkdsk.exe or Check Disk utility. This is a task that can be easily automated with Task Scheduler. This does require rebooting to complete, so it is probably ideal to simply trigger the disk checking [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Default programs are used by the Windows operating system to determine the program that needs to be opened when a user wants to perform a specific action on the operating system. This can be a click on a link in an email program, a click on an email address or a click on a playlist [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

A few months ago now I was commissioned by my publisher to make a series of video tutorial versions of some of their Step-by-Step books.  I made four, Windows 7, Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010 and HTML5.  Now they’ve taken the fantastic step of making some of these videos available for FREE online. It’s not just [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

Whether your computer has Hardware Virtualization or not, this is a simple way to run XP mode on Windows 7 without Hardware Virtualization, as it is included in the Microsoft download. There is no additional cost to do this. You can run XP on your Windows 7 operating system with ease. Originally, Microsoft required that [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

This is a basic tutorial on how to set up a VPN, or Virtual Private Network on Windows 7. You can use this to set up your own VPN server. This assumes you are using a router to connect to the Internet, and you have permissions to add port forwarding to the settings. You’ll also [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

A issue has been confirmed recently by Microsoft that is impacting users of the Windows 7 client operating system and users of the Windows Server 2008 R2 server operating systems even with the latest service pack releases installed. Some customers running those operating system versions have reported that their systems stop responding randomly. Microsoft has [...]

Categories: troubleshooting, Windows

I’m not really making that much use of the jumplist feature that Microsoft has implemented into the Windows 7 operating system. With a fast SSD as my main drive, it feels that the extra click needed to start the application is simply not worth it to open a specific feature or page that way. A [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Windows 7 has a built-in utility to create, resize, or delete hard drive partitions. No third party software utilities are required. You are able to expand or condense partitions after creating them using the inherent function rather than blowing cash on a third party utility that is simply going to perform the actions in this [...]

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