“My sister’s cat walked over my laptop keyboard and now my Windows 7 screen is upside down. When I boot up in safe mode its correct side up so I know theres nothing wrong with the monitor. How do I rotate the screen back to normal?” Those darn cats are such savvy Windows users. Some […]

“I want to have more space on my desktop. How do I hide my Windows 7 taskbar?” 1. Click on the ‘Start’ menu button. 2. Select ‘Control Panel’. 3. Choose ‘Appearance and Personalization’. 4. Now click on ‘Taskbar and Start Menu’. 5. Under the Taskbar tab, put a check mark beside ‘Auto-hide the taskbar’ and […]

Regardless of how quick or sparkly personal computers may be when they are brand new, it manages to get slower after some time. That top of the line PC you purchased a year ago may not seem like such a hot rod once you put in a few dozen applications, fill it with antivirus and […]

“I heard you can speed up the computer by doing a defrag, how do I defrag my computer with Windows 7?” Disk Defragmenter is a program built into Windows Operating system to help improve performance. Hard drives running Windows can get fragmented over time which basically means bits of information is scattered all across the […]

“I recently upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 and noticed the old Windows Vista install which is in the windows.old folder is taking up a lot of my hard drive space. How do I delete windows.old folder and save some hard drive space? 1. Click Start. 2. Type in “disk cleanup” in the search box. […]

“How do I uninstall Windows Live Messenger on my Window 7 machine, I can’t find it on my list of programs.” Looks like Microsoft hid the program pretty good so people can’t uninstall it so easily and hopefully give up on the idea of removing Messenger on their PC’s. Shame on you Microsoft. 1. Head […]

“I got an older PC lying around and was thinking of putting Windows 7 on it. What are the Windows 7 system requirements? ” Here’s what it takes to run Windows 7 on a PC: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM […]

“Is there a way to change the Windows 7 login picture?” Head over to Tweaks.com and download the Logon Changer for Windows 7. Here’s what you’ll see when you launch Logon Changer for Windows 7. Press the “Change Logon Screen” button at the bottom left hand corner. Select an image from your “Pictures” folder or […]

“Where can I download Windows 7 themes?” You can download Windows 7 themes from Microsoft from here. The Featured Themes section has a number of sponsored themes from major companies such as Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Ferrari just to name a few. There are also International Themes from different countries such as France, Canada, or Japan. […]

“How do you delete user accounts in Windows 7?” Log in as the Administrator. Click the Start (Windows icon) button. Select “Control Panel”. Under “Users Accounts and Family Safety” click on “Add or remove user accounts”. Click on the user account you want to delete. Click on “Delete the account”. Now you have a choice […]