Windows 7 Articles - How-To Geek

Automatically Clean Out and Remove Empty Files and Folders

After cleaning out files on your hard drive, you may be left with a bunch of empty folders you want to delete. Rather than finding them manually, wouldn’t it be easier to use a tool that can find them for you and delete the...

Lori Kaufman Aug 22nd, 2012

How to Set Outlook Appointment Reminders at Non-Standard Times

Microsoft Outlook is a great platform for setting calendar appointments with reminders, but the default reminders in the list might not work for everybody, especially if you want to schedule a reminder for a few months in adv...

Lowell Heddings Aug 15th, 2012

Browser Slow? How to Make Internet Explorer 9 Fast Again

Have you noticed your usually speedy IE9 browser slowing down, or even crashing on you? Unnecessary plugins, extensions, and even browsing data can slow your browser down to a crawl, or make it crash. Here’s how to fix it....

Lori Kaufman Aug 7th, 2012

How to Make Your USB Devices Power Down on Safe Removal in Windows

Have you ever safely removed your USB device only to see that the LED activity light on your device remains on? This is caused by a change to Windows that has affected every version since Windows Vista. Here’s how to fix it...

Taylor Gibb Aug 6th, 2012

How to Access Shared Windows Folders and Stream Videos Over Wi-Fi on Android

Want to play videos from your computer on your Android, without the hassle of copying them to your device’s internal storage? Share a folder over the network with Windows. You can copy files back and forth over Wi-Fi, too....

Chris Hoffman Aug 4th, 2012

How to Create a Repeating Alarm in Windows 7 Without Extra Software

If you work on a computer all day, you might forget to get up now and then to stretch. To avoid your neck seizing up and your eyes bugging out, you can set an alarm to remind yourself to get up every so often....

Lori Kaufman Aug 1st, 2012

Browser Slow? How to Make Mozilla Firefox Fast Again

Have you noticed your usually speedy Firefox browser slowing down, or even crashing on you? Unnecessary plugins, extensions, and even browsing data can slow your browser down to a crawl, or make it crash. Here’s how to ...

How To Clean a Windows PC on Your Network Remotely with CCleaner

Have you ever needed to clean someone’s PC but you wanted to do it from your computer instead of theirs? Here’s how you can remotely execute CCleaner on any Windows PC you have network access to.

Taylor Gibb Jul 31st, 2012

5 Windows Command Prompt Tricks You Probably Don’t Know

We tend to use the command prompt quite a lot here at How-To Geek, so we decided to show you 5 tricks we use in the command prompt that you might not know–read on to find out what they are.

Taylor Gibb Jul 30th, 2012

How to Create a Secretly Disguised Folder Without Extra Software

Almost anyone knows how to make a “hidden” folder in Windows, most people also know how to make Explorer show hidden folders. Instead, if your folder looked like an innocent shortcut no one would know you have data in the...

Taylor Gibb Jul 26th, 2012

How to Hide Zip Files Inside a Picture Without any Extra Software in Windows

Since images are read from the header down, and zip files are read from the footer up, you can easily merge them as one single file , and no one will ever know. Read on to find out how.

Taylor Gibb Jul 25th, 2012

How to Edit the Windows Context Menu the Easy Way

Editing the Windows context menu can be done manually by hacking away at the Registry, but you may not be ready to dig in there just yet, in that case read on to see how you can get the registry keys generated for you....

Taylor Gibb Jul 23rd, 2012

How to Clean Up Your Messy Windows Context Menu with CCleaner

Lets face it, one of the messy sides of Windows is its right-click context menu system which seems to get more cluttered every time you install a new program. Here’s how to fix that, the easy way.

How to Force an Application to Use a Specific Network Card

Have you ever been connected to a network, and plugged in a 3G card and wished you could make only a certain program use your 3G connection ? Well you can, read on to find out how.

Taylor Gibb Jul 10th, 2012

Add Multiple Types of Items to the Desktop Context Menu in Windows 7 or 8

The context menu in Windows provides a convenient place to start programs, access websites, and open folders. There are several ways to add programs to the menu including a registry method and a free tool....

Lori Kaufman Jun 27th, 2012

Easily Add Program Shortcuts to the Desktop Context Menu in Windows 7

If you use the Desktop context menu often, wouldn’t it be useful if you could add program shortcuts to it so you can quickly access your favorite apps? We’ve shown you how to do this using a quick registry tweak, but ther...

Lori Kaufman Jun 20th, 2012

Get the Windows 8 Charms Bar in Windows 7, Vista, and XP Using a RocketDock Skin

Have you tried one of the Windows 8 Preview releases and found you like the Charms bar on the Metro Start Screen? If you’re not quite ready to give up Windows 7, there is a way to get the Charms bar from Windows 8....

Lori Kaufman Jun 14th, 2012

How to Display RSS Feeds on Your Windows Desktop

Recently we explained what RSS Feeds are and how you can benefit from them, and today we are back to show you how you can get all your RSS Feeds displaying on your desktop. Read on to find out how.

Taylor Gibb Jun 11th, 2012

The 35 Best Tips and Tricks for Maintaining Your Windows PC

When working (or playing) on your computer, you probably don’t think much about how you are going to clean up your files, backup your data, keep your system virus free, etc. However, these are tasks that need attention....

Lori Kaufman Jun 2nd, 2012

How to Install Mac OS X Lion on Your HP ProBook (or Compatible Laptop)

There’s nothing more satisfying than building a hackintosh, i.e. installing Mac OS X on a non-Apple machine. Although it isn’t as easy as it sounds, but the end result is worth the effort. Building a PC with specific comp...

Usman May 29th, 2012

How to Share CD & DVD Drives Over the Network on Windows

From ultrabooks to netbooks, computers are shedding their optical drives. If you still use an occasional CD or DVD, you don’t have to buy an external optical drive – you can share another computer’s optical drive over...

Chris Hoffman May 18th, 2012

How to Change Your IP Address Using PowerShell

We have already shown you how you can change your IP address from the command prompt, which required long netsh commands, now we are doing the same thing in PowerShell, without the complexity.

Taylor Gibb May 14th, 2012

How to Use CCleaner Like a Pro: 9 Tips & Tricks

There’s more to CCleaner than clicking a single button. This popular application for wiping temporary files and clearing private data hides a variety of features, from fine-grained options for tweaking the cleaning process ...

How to Take Screenshots of the Windows Logon Screen: 2 Geeky Tricks

There are ways to run a screen capture utility – or any other program – from the welcome screen. Windows doesn’t make this easy, but it’s possible. The logon screen runs on the Winlogon desktop, an isolated Windows de...

Chris Hoffman May 6th, 2012