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Friday, November 9th, 2007One of the first thing I noticed when I first installed Windows Vista was the large desktop icons taking up precious desktop space. I like to decrease the size of my icons to maximize my desktop space.
On screen keyboard in Windows
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Many people do not know Windows comes with a free on screen keyboard. The on screen keyboard is great for people with disabilities, people who do not know how to type, or maybe for people who just like using the mouse instead of the keyboard. Whatever the reason may be here is how to enable the onscreen feature in Windows XP and Vista.
My Computer is slow to boot
Monday, November 5th, 2007If you find your computer booting very slow one of the best thing you can do is remove startup programs and prevent them from starting during boot up.
How can I show hidden files in XP
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007This takes a little digging but here’s how to show hidden files and folders in XP, this will also work on Vista:
How to change desktop background
Saturday, October 27th, 2007Here’s how to change desktop background picture in Vista.
- Right click anywhere on the desktop
- Scroll down and left click on “Personalize”
How to extract RAR file
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007RAR is a compression format, it is used to make files smaller and download friendly. To open a RAR file you can use WinRAR to extract the files. The only problem with WinRAR is it costs money although you can download a trial version. My personal favorite program to extract files is 7-Zip it supports RAR files and it’s free.
How do I Disable Vista UAC
Saturday, October 13th, 2007Vista has a number of security features that help protect the user for malicious programs. UAC (user access control) is a great feature built into Vista. UAC alerts you whenever a program requires administrative access to the computer. The confirmation screen can get annoying sometimes and if you decide that you can’t live with it I will show you how to disable UAC in Vista.
How much ram do I have?
Sunday, October 7th, 2007To find out how much ram or how much memory you have in your computer find your My Computer icon on your desktop in XP, for Vista users go Start, Computer now right click and select Properties and a System information window will appear showing how much computer memory is on that computer.
What Is My IP Address
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Every computer and most electronic devices in the world has a ip address, that is how they communicate with each other, it’s like a street address or a phone number. How do I find my Ip address? You can easily look up your ip address from your computer. Here’s how
How do I burn a Cd or Dvd in Vista
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Vista comes with a pretty decent burning program to burn a cd or dvd. There are two ways to burn a cd or dvd in Windows Vista the first one is called ‘Live File System’ and the second one is called ‘Mastered’. When you burn a cd/dvd using the live file system it acts like a hard drive or a usb stick, you can add more files onto the disc at a later date, that’s pretty cool. The downside to using this method is dvd players can’t read these files, and only machines running Windows XP or later can read the discs. On the upside, if you use rewritable discs you can erase files on the disc.
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