Feb 05 2012
Here’s a quick tip for tonight for Windows users. Back in Windows 3.1 there wasn’t a dedicated button to close a window so instead you had to double click the menu button in the top left corner. It wasn’t until Windows 95 that a dedicated close button made its appearance in the top right corner …
Jan 12 2012
As more of us start using Windows 7 you’ll need to get to grips with the various features built into it. One of the prominent features carried forward from Windows Vista is search. Now, you’d think that you could find stuff by clicking in the box and typing the words of the file you are …
Jan 05 2012
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. If you are editing the registry sometimes you might like two registry editors open at the same time so you can compare the existing state with the updated state. However, attempting to do so will only allow you ever to open registry editor. The way around this is to …
Jan 01 2012
Most Windows software these days follows the convention introduced back in Windows 95 to install applications into the “Program Files” or “Program Files (x86)” folder on your computer (usually located in C:\). With more recent versions of Windows such as Windows Vista and Windows 7 this has become quite important as the “Program Files” folders …
Dec 26 2011
Recently, I reinstalled Windows 7 from scratch after putting a brand new OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 solid state drive in my desktop computer but since then my computer hasn’t been going to sleep automatically after its nightly backup. After a bit of research, I found that I needed to use the powercfg tool to see what …
Oct 07 2011
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. If you like in a part of the world which observes daylights saving (which I personally find annoying) you can easily find out what happened or what will happen with regard to the system clock (whichever is closest). Under Windows Vista and Windows 7 all you need to do …
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