It used to be that defragging your hard drive was the best thing you could really do to speed up your computer. Since defragging the disk won’t do as much to improve Windows 7 performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your…
87 Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
Getting used to using your keyboard exclusively and leaving your mouse behind will make you much more efficient at performing any task on any Windows system. I find that if I am using a lot of Windows shortcuts and am avoiding the mouse as much as possible that I can…
How to replace a failing hard drive
In this age of ipads, tablets, and even chromebooks we don’t seem to have as much trouble with failing hard drives. rouble is it does still happen on desktop computers and I ran into this yesterday. My son has a desktop computer with a fairly small 160 gig hard drive…
Fixing Windows 7 Tips
While the latest windows version is Windows 8 or even 8.1 there are a lot of people still using windows 7 which is still chock full of features, functions, and capabilities. Still there are plenty of problems and errors that could arise which can cause all sorts of headaches for…
Windows 7 Home Premium RDP broken
One of the things that was a real hassle when Windows 7 came out was the lack of RDP server access when you only have Window 7 Home Premium. The RDP feature is only included in Windows 7 Ultimate. What this mean to us as a family is that if…
iPhone 6 Plus Details
Apple just announced the iphone 6 plus and this will be interesting to see the difference that this will hold with the Samsung S5 Here are the details of the new iPhone 6 Plus 185% more pixels in the iPhone 5.5 than there was in the 5S. And they’re all…
How To Make Complex Decisions
One of the things that has always driven me crazy is the way that in our minds we can decide what is right based on a number of factors but when you try to get that down on paper it is really difficult to judge how to make a decision…
How to Search Your Files in Windows 8
Windows will usually search for whatever you type in the Search box by looking in the file name, file contents, and file properties of all the files in the current view. Type “Moon,” for example, and it will find files named “sunset in moon.jpg,” files tagged with “moon,” and files…
How to Delete Simple Spyware
Spywares and adware are not only annoying but more often than not tend to damage your computer software and sometimes can even cause some damage to your hardware too. These annoying bugs have become a bane for internet browsers worldwide. They have become a normal occurrence that we sometimes tend…
Unlocking Files that are In Use
As part of one of those day to day kind of things that I run into are users on our network that need to replace files that lots of people have access to. In our case these are PDF files and occasionally when a file needs to be replaced with…