Documenting Windows Errors With Problem Steps Recorder

When working with a tech support person to resolve an issue with your computer, a screen image can be the most useful tool for showing the actual problem. Being able to show the exact error message goes a long way toward communicating what’s actually happening on your computer. Screen recording software, which can create a […]
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Having Trouble Connecting To Your Home Network? Here Are a Few Tips To Help

Networking on Windows was such a complicated affair 10 or 15 years ago that a network tech could count on a six-figure salary just getting computers to talk to one another. While home networking on Windows works considerably more smoothly now, you can still find that Windows stalls your attempts to connect a home network […]
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How Would You Like to Disable Metro on Windows 8?

It must have dawned on Microsoft at some point in the past couple of years that the mouse-based computing experience looked a bit dated in today’s touchscreen filled world. While Microsoft’s intentions in catching Windows up to a touch-based 21st century may have been good, they certainly seem to have got people’s goats with the […]
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How to Remove a Windows 7 Service Permanently

The Services console is a tool that allows Windows 7 users to turn Windows services on or off. It even gives the user the option to prevent selected services from loading every time the computer boots up. This is a very useful tool since some of these services are not essential to the startup process […]
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How to Create a Disk Partition in Windows Vista/7

With so much of our lives stored on hard drives these days, the backing up of information has become a necessity for all computer users. Anyone who has experienced the heartbreaking moment of hearing clicks and whirrs from their desktop or laptop, knowing that all of their important files are fizzling into dust, will tell […]
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Tips and Tricks for Freeing Up Memory and Improve Performance in Windows 7

All Computers require free memory to run faster and operate efficiently. The amount of free random access memory or RAM, virtual memory or virtual RAM (made up of free hard drive space called page file) and Graphics Memory can affect the performance of your PC dramatically. There are however certain tips and tricks to free […]
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Internet Security: How to Make Sure That Your Windows 7 OS is Safe

With great power comes great danger, and your Windows 7 installation is constantly under threat from the Internet. All it takes is one wrong click, one mistake, and your system’s got a virus that it can’t quit. That’s the only real drawback of going with the biggest operating system of this generation. Since most of […]
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