How-To Guides Archives - Page 13 of 16

Restoring Sleep Mode to Vista Media Center PCs

Alan McCloskeyJun 27, 2007June 21, 20141

If you have a Media Center PC, then you no doubt have lots of digital media stored on it. You probably also have this media

Where did Vista’s Task Manager Go?

Alan McCloskeyJun 20, 2007June 21, 20140

Some of us are old enough to remember when the old three-finger salute was used to reboot out computers: a specific key combination recognized at

Vista Solitaire Cheat (with Screencast)

Alan McCloskeyJun 8, 2007June 21, 20141

Ah, Solitaire. It has cost employers millions of dollars in wasted productivity, as it has come with every version of Windows since 3.0 (and possibly

View Nikon RAW Files (NEF) in Windows

Alan McCloskeyJun 8, 2007June 21, 20140

If you are using a professional Nikon digital camera, then you may have discovered how useful the RAW file format is in the digital darkroom.

How to turn off the UAC (annoying confirmation prompts) in Windows 7

Alan McCloskeyMay 30, 2007June 21, 20141

If you believe all those Mac commercials, then Windows has been “plagued” with security problems. Many of these problems arise from users inadvertantly installing spyware

Professionally Repair DVDs Cheaply

Alan McCloskeyMay 22, 2007August 1, 20140

If you are a technology junkie then you no doubt have thousands of commercial CDs or DVDs, not to mention thousands more of your own

Hide Start Menu Documents, Pictures, and Programs

Alan McCloskeyMay 21, 2007August 1, 20140

If you have a computer that’s shared by a few others in your home (wife, roommates, sentient demon monkeys), then you want to protect your

Associate a File Type with a Windows Program

Alan McCloskeyMay 21, 2007August 1, 20141

It always happens to us. You have your favorite media player, graphics editor, HTML editor or whatever, and you install the latest codec or optional

Force Icons Back to Small XP Size

Alan McCloskeyMay 18, 2007August 1, 20140

Vista icons are much more realistic in appearance in comparison to the looser, illustrative style of Windows XP icons. The largest size included in the

Hide your recent Documents, Pictures, and Programs on Start Menu

Alan McCloskeyMay 14, 2007June 21, 20140

If you have a computer that’s shared by a few others in your home (wife, roommates, sentient demon monkeys), then you want to protect your

Take Ownership of Windows System Files

Alan McCloskeyMay 11, 2007June 21, 20143

It always happens, even in Windows XP... you need to move or delete some files, but Windows gives you an error that you need permission

How to Auto-Login with Windows 7

Alan McCloskeyMay 9, 2007August 1, 20140

Since your Media Center is set up to be an appliance, there’s no need to login every time it boots. Although it will automatically login

Screensaver doesn’t come on in Vista

Alan McCloskeyMar 5, 2007August 1, 20140

I had an issue on two of my computers where the screen saver would never start. I could preview the screen saver, but no matter

Enable New Window Effects in Vista

Alan McCloskeyMar 1, 2007August 1, 20140

The transitions in Windows Vista are neat, but there’s only one of them. Everyone keeps talking about how Vista is so much like Mac OS

Google Secrets You Never Knew

Alan McCloskeyFeb 28, 2007November 28, 20140

Google is a great general-purpose search engine, and is so popular that many people refer to searching for something on the Internet as “Googling”. Ubiquitous