The topic came up recently on our How To Uninstall Windows Internet Explorer 9 guide: Is it possible to remove or uninstall Internet Explorer 8 from Windows 7? The short answer is no, it is not. At least not if you mean to completely remove the web browser from the operating system. Internet Explorer 8 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

It’s been a busy time for me here as I’ve recently been doing a series of webcasts and lectures and I thought I’d share some of these with you here.  They’re all completely free and residing on YouTube. I also thought I’d share with you a couple of photos from my most recent seminar, at [...]

Categories: Advice

The Windows 7 operating system is climbing in rapid pace on the market share graph. If you look at the Windows 7 market share for the first quarter of 2011, you notice that the operating system has now about double the share of Windows Vista, its predecessor, and half of that of Windows XP. With [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Family computers should have independent user accounts for every family member. These user accounts can be configured by the system administrator, usually one of the parents, for specific requirements and regulations. Some parents for instance may want to configure the computer in a way that their children are only able to use it when they [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 introduces several new features, among them an option to pin websites to the Windows 7 Taskbar. Webmasters can customize the feature by adding meta information to their website’s header. How can webmasters add the content to their website? Everything is handled by meta tags that are added to the head area [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you’re having trouble with Windows 7 or want to find out more about how to troubleshoot the OS then I’ll be giving a free webcast this Thursday with my publisher O’Reilly.  The webcast will be based on my book Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out and is completely free to partake in. Windows 7 might [...]

Categories: Advice

One of the biggest problems with Windows, every version in fact is that there is a different installation DVD for each version.  Whether that’s Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate that’s nine different discs you need as each of these comes with a separate disc for the 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions of [...]

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Microsoft has decided to remove several context menu entries from Windows 7′s Windows Explorer context menu if more than 15 items are selected at once. The open, print and edit links are specifically removed whenever more than 15 files or folders are selected. This limit may affect context menu entries of other programs as well. [...]

Categories: troubleshooting, Tutorials Basic

What can you do if the Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Update fails? The answer depends largely on the error code that you see directly on the screen or in the Windows event log. Regardless of that code, it is still possible to try two generic fixes before you try to find a solution for [...]

Categories: troubleshooting, Windows