Want to know how to delete wallpapers from your Windows machine? If you have ever changed your wallpaper in Windows, you’ve probably noticed the ridiculous number of useless wallpapers...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
How to Force Windows Explorer to Start in the Folder You Want
Few things in Windows are more irritating than the way that Explorer always opens in the same folder (C:\ for Windows 95/98, My Documents for Windows Me/2000/XP). If you have an entry in your Start Menu to run Explorer, you can change it to "Explore" at the folder of your choice:
Open Explorer, and go to your Start Menu folder.
Find the shortcut...
How to Avoid Getting a Computer Virus or Worm on Your Windows PC
Be careful about using MS Outlook. Outlook is more susceptible to worms than other e-mail programs, unless you have efficient Anti-Virus programs running. Use Pegasus or Thunderbird (by Mozilla), or a web-based program such as Hotmail or Yahoo or 'Outlook Express'.
Install an Anti-Virus program(ex. Norton, F-Secure, Sophos or McAfee.) Also available...
How to Make Windows XP Startup Faster
Windows seems to be getting slower in its old age. Especially when you first switch it on. We just clocked a brand new laptop at a shade under 2 minutes from pressing the "on" switch to it finally deciding that it was OK to be used.
Windows will never be ultra fast booting up because of everything it needs to do. Just look at the stuff Windows Vista...
How to Defragment Your Disk Drive Volumes in Windows XP
Disk Defragmenter MMC is based on the full retail version of Executive Software Diskeeper. The version that is included with Windows XP and later provides limited functionality in maintaining disk performance by defragmenting volumes that use the FAT, FAT32, or NTFS file system.
To start Disk Defragmenter MMC, use one of the methods...
How to Speed up a Windows XP Computer
Clear Out Forgotten ProgramsThe first step in tuning up your computer's performance is to remove any unnecessary programs. I install new programs all the time. Sometimes I'm thrilled...
How to Change a Windows XP Product Key
Here's How: Click on Start and then Run.
In the text box in the Run window, type regedit and click OK. This will open the Registry Editor program.
Locate the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder under My Computer and click on the (+) sign next the folder name to expand the folder.
Continue to expand folders until you reach the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current...
How to Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications
Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications
Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) notifications occur when your computer hasn't passed the validation test. The validation test can be failed due to being sold a pirated (non-genuine) copy of XP, or because you have changed your XP product key to a software-generated key, or sometimes it just happens for...
How To reducing the file size of a picture
can dramatically increase the file size of your 2007 Microsoft Office system document. To save room on your hard disk drive and to reduce download times, you can reduce image...
How To Transfer Data Between Two Hard Drives
Method 1Open the computer case and unscrew the hard drive from the computer that you will not be using to transfer the files.
Unplug the power, keyboard, mouse, etc. from the...
How to Back Up Your Computer Hard Drive
If your computer has ever suffered a computer virus or crashed unexpectedly, you may understand the importance of backing up your important computer data. If you have never performed this task, then read on to learn how to back up your computer hard drive. You will learn what the three things that you need to do to ensure that you never lose data...
