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How to Customize and Tweak Your System Tray Icons in Windows

Not all apps run in the foreground. Some sit quietly in the background, doing work for you with an icon in the Notification Area–also commonly (but apparently incorrectly) known as the System Tray. Windows helps you manage t…

Chris Hoffman Oct 24th, 2016

How to Change Your IP Address From the Command Prompt in Windows

It’s easy enough to change an IP address on your PC using Control Panel, but did you know you can also do it from the Command Prompt?

Walter Glenn Oct 19th, 2016

How to Disable the Control Panel and Settings Interface in Windows

The Windows Control Panel and Settings interface both expose a lot of settings that you might not want some users messing around with. Here’s how to disable them in Windows 7, 8, and 10.

Walter Glenn Oct 14th, 2016

How to Remove Programs from the “Open With” Context Menu in Windows

If your “Open With” right-click menu is getting a little cluttered, why not get rid of entries you don’t use? With a little Registry hacking, it’s easy to do.

Walter Glenn Oct 13th, 2016

How to Stop Your Mouse from Waking Up Your Windows PC

If a slight bump to your desk is enough to wake up your sleeping PC, it’s likely your mouse doing the waking. Here’s how to prevent that from happening.

Walter Glenn Oct 12th, 2016

How to Block (or Allow) Certain Applications for Users in Windows

If you’d like to limit what apps a user can run on a PC, Windows gives you two options. You can block the apps you don’t want a user to run, or you can restrict them to running only specific apps. Here’s how to do it….

Walter Glenn Oct 5th, 2016

How to Disable Search In Windows

If you really don’t use Windows Search much, you can disable indexing completely by turning off the Windows Search service. You’ll still be able to search–it will just take longer without an index.

Walter Glenn Oct 4th, 2016

How to Extract .RAR Files for Free on Windows and Mac

Have you ever downloaded a file only to find it has a strange .rar file extension? RAR is a compressed file format—much like a ZIP file—and in this article, we’ll show you how to open RAR files on Windows or macOS….

Taylor Gibb Sep 29th, 2016

When Do You Need to Update Your Drivers?

Talk to any tech person, read any forum, and at some point you’re sure to be told to update your drivers… but what does that really mean? And is it necessary to compulsively update your drivers? Here’s our take….

Lowell Heddings Sep 28th, 2016

How to Disable System Restore in Windows 7, 8, or 10

Windows’ System Restore feature will make sure that software installations, drivers, and other updates can be rolled back. The only price to this feature is some disk usage. If you want to disable System Restore, which is a b…

Lowell Heddings Sep 27th, 2016

How to Create a System Restore Point in Windows 7

When System Restore was introduced in back in Windows ME, it helped save some major computer snafus for plenty of users. The feature is still included in Windows 7, 8, and 10, and is a useful tool for fixing a myriad of pro…

Brian Burgess Sep 27th, 2016

Why Do Hard Drives Show the Wrong Capacity in Windows?

If you’ve ever purchased a computer with a hard disk capacity of 500 GB and opened Windows Explorer only to find that its capacity looked more like 440 GB, you may be wondering where all those gigabytes went….

Chris Hoffman Sep 26th, 2016

How System Restore Works in Windows

System Restore is a Windows feature that can help fix some crashes and other computer problems. To know when to use it, you’ll have to understand just how System Restore works.

Chris Hoffman Sep 26th, 2016

Live File System vs. Mastered Disc Formats in Windows

When burning a CD or DVD with Windows, you’ll be asked whether you want to use a Live File System or a Mastered disc format. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Chris Hoffman Sep 26th, 2016

Do I Really Need to Defrag My PC?

Ask any PC tech person how to make your computer faster, and almost every one of them will tell you to defrag your PC. But do you really need to manually trigger a defrag these days?

Lowell Heddings Sep 21st, 2016

Why Do So Many Geeks Hate Internet Explorer?

It’s common knowledge that almost every single geek hates Internet Explorer with a passion, but have you ever wondered why? Let’s take a fair look at the history and where it all began… for posterity, if nothing else….

Lowell Heddings Sep 21st, 2016

How to Reset Your Forgotten Windows Password the Easy Way

Forgetting your password is never any fun, but luckily there’s a really easy way to reset the password. All you need is a copy of the Windows installation disk and one simple command line trick.

Lowell Heddings Sep 2nd, 2016

How to Add Dropbox (or Other Cloud Services) to the Send To Menu in Windows

If you use Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and iCloud Drive to share and back up files, you can add them to the Send To context menu in Windows for quicker file moving.

Lori Kaufman Aug 31st, 2016

How to Set Up a Shared Network Printer in Windows 7, 8, or 10

Over the years, Windows has gotten much better about how it handles networked printers. But if you want to share a printer over the network, you may still need to do a little legwork to get it all up and running. Here’s how i…

Walter Glenn Aug 30th, 2016

How to Completely Disable Internet Explorer in Windows

A lot of Windows users dislike Internet Explorer enough that just using a different browser is not enough–they want it gone. Although there is no way to completely uninstall it, let’s take a look at how to disable Internet…

Brian Burgess Aug 25th, 2016

Share an Internet Connection Between Wireless Machines with an Ad Hoc Network in Windows 7

When you’re traveling sometimes you don’t have a Wi-Fi connection available for your portable devices or need to share files with another wireless computer. Here is how to create a wireless ad hoc network in Windows 7 to …

Brian Burgess Aug 24th, 2016

What Is mDNSResponder.exe / Bonjour and How Can I Uninstall or Remove It?

You are no doubt reading this article because you’ve noticed the mDNSResponder.exe process running in Task Manager, you don’t remember installing it, and it doesn’t show up in the Add/Remove programs in Control Panel. So what…

Lowell Heddings Aug 23rd, 2016

What’s the Difference Between Sleep and Hibernate in Windows?

Windows provides several options for conserving power when you are not using your PC. These options include Sleep, Hibernate, and Hybrid Sleep, and are particularly useful if you have a laptop. Here’s the difference between…

Lori Kaufman Aug 18th, 2016

How to Open Tabs from Your Last Session Whenever You Start Your Browser

Do you always have a lot of tabs open in your browser? If your browser has crashed on you, or if you just want to keep those tabs open next time you start your computer, don’t panic. There is a solution….

Lori Kaufman Aug 8th, 2016

How to Save Searches in Windows for Quick Access Later

If you regularly search for certain files in Windows, saving searches is a great way to access them more quickly than retyping the search every time. Saving searches is especially useful if you often perform more advanced se…

Brian Burgess Jul 27th, 2016

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Windows 7 (Page 5)

How to Customize and Tweak Your System Tray Icons in Windows

How to Disable the Control Panel and Settings Interface in Windows

How to Remove Programs from the “Open With” Context Menu in Windows

How to Stop Your Mouse from Waking Up Your Windows PC

How to Block (or Allow) Certain Applications for Users in Windows

How to Disable Search In Windows

How to Extract .RAR Files for Free on Windows and Mac

When Do You Need to Update Your Drivers?

Why Do Hard Drives Show the Wrong Capacity in Windows?

How System Restore Works in Windows

Live File System vs. Mastered Disc Formats in Windows

Do I Really Need to Defrag My PC?

Why Do So Many Geeks Hate Internet Explorer?

How to Reset Your Forgotten Windows Password the Easy Way

How to Add Dropbox (or Other Cloud Services) to the Send To Menu in Windows

How to Completely Disable Internet Explorer in Windows

What Is mDNSResponder.exe / Bonjour and How Can I Uninstall or Remove It?

What’s the Difference Between Sleep and Hibernate in Windows?

How to Open Tabs from Your Last Session Whenever You Start Your Browser

How to Save Searches in Windows for Quick Access Later

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