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Relocate Your Entire Documents Folder to Dropbox
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011Learn how to transform replace your Documents folder with your Dropbox. After this tweak, your My Documents folder will be available anywhere in the world! Continue reading
Open File Location in Process Explorer
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011A file location can be easily opened in the Vista and Windows 7 Task Manager, but this feature wasn’t built-in to XP. However, the handy task manager utility, Process Explorer, solves that problem for XP users. Continue reading
Open File Location in Task Manager
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011Did you know that you can open a file’s location from within Task Manager? Check out the handy troubleshooting feature! Continue reading
SlimCleaner
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011SlimCleaner is a free utility that’s designed like many others, but with all those features rolled into one. It contains a cleaner, optimizer, uninstaller, a shredder and much more. Continue reading
MooO FileShredder
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011MooO File Shredder is a free program that works a lot like your computer’s recycling bin, only this one has all sorts of options and can completely delete files! Give it a look! Continue reading
How to Format a Flash Drive
Monday, August 15th, 2011How do you format a flash drive? The same way as any other drive. It’s easy, so follow along! Continue reading
How to Format a Flash Drive
Friday, August 12th, 2011Learn how to format a flash drive quickly and easily with this step by step tutorial for Windows PCs. Continue reading
Rename Mulitple Files at Once
Friday, August 12th, 2011Do you have a bunch of files you need to rename, but you don’t want to take the time to go through each and every one? Give this handy little trick a try! Continue reading
YouSendIt: A Cheaper Cloud Storage For Businesses And Individuals
Friday, August 12th, 2011YouSendIt as we knew it has changed and changed for good. Let us take a quick look at the improved service and what it has in store for us. Continue reading
Read an Excel 2010 Document in Excel 2003
Friday, July 22nd, 2011This article tells how to open a Microsoft Word 2010 document in an earlier version of Word using one of two methods. Give it a look! Continue reading
Same Name Zip File
Friday, July 8th, 2011Does Windows randomly name your zip files for you? Is there a way to get some consistency? Read this tip – there’s a better way! Continue reading
Amazon Cloud Services
Friday, July 1st, 2011Previously, we’ve experienced music streaming start-ups like Soundcloud and mSpot that not only ease music streaming easier, they also do make it literally on-the-go. Let’s look at Amazon Cloud Services. Continue reading
Uninstall Internet Explorer Versions in XP
Friday, July 1st, 2011This tip describes how to uninstall versions of Internet Explorer from Windows XP. Continue reading
Simplify
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011When searching for an answer to a computer question, the most complex answer isn’t necessarily the best. Simplify. Continue reading
Disable Error Reporting in Vista and Windows 7
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011While disabling error reporting isn’t recommended, it’s possible, and here’s how it’s done in Vista and Windows 7. Continue reading
WinDirStat
Monday, June 13th, 2011Have you ever wondered what may be slowing down your computer’s performance? Here’s a free program called WinDirStat to help you analyze your drives to see where you could possibly free up some space. Continue reading
Backing Up With Windows 7
Sunday, June 5th, 2011Here’s a wonderful tip on how to easily back-up your entire Windows 7 machine onto an external hard drive. It’s really simple, so give it a look! Continue reading
Run Command Prompt as Administrator
Friday, April 22nd, 2011Eleanor writes:
I went to do something the other day on my computer and it asked me for an “elevated prompt”. What is that?
Hi, Eleanor! Thanks for writing.
I don’t know how long you have been using your computer, but if it’s been more than 24 hours, you should have run across some
Copy a Google Doc to MS Word
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011Nancy from Wisconsin, asks:
How can I copy a Google doc. into Microsoft Word?
Nancy, this is an interesting question. Fortunately, there are a couple of ways of copying a Google document into Microsoft Word. Let’s take a look at them.
Method 1 – Simple Copy and
The Everywhere Folder in Vista Explained
Friday, April 8th, 2011Richard from Illinois asks:
Can you tell me the significance of the folder “everywhere” found under “owner – search” in the folder ladder diagram. I show 5000 items that consist of deleted e-mails,copies of still active files, and what appears to be programs. what is it for and can & should it be cleaned out?
Solving a “Trayapp” File Problem
Thursday, April 7th, 2011Every time my computer boots, it starts to download some file called “Trayapp”. I have tried everything I know to find the program that “needs” this elusive file, but can’t find any information linking it to anything in my system. I have to manually “end program” every time I turn on my computer.
I know this problem must be
Saving Files to Disk in Windows 7
Friday, April 1st, 2011Carolyn asks:
Can you write something on how to save files to a CD in Windows 7?
Thanks for the question, Carolyn. While we’ve covered this topic on several occasions, I found no fully illustrated step-by-step directions in our archives, and no instructions at all specifically for Windows 7. However, while the look may
Setting the File Preview Option
Thursday, March 24th, 2011Hailey writes:
I have a lot of photos in My Pictures folder. The thing is, I can’t see the little pictures of the photos for preview, I can only see icons. Can I change this so that I can see my little pictures again? I have Windows Vista.
Hi, Hailey!
Yep, you can change the icons to the
Password Protect Zip Files
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011Harold from Austin, Texas asks:
In Windows 7, is there a way to password protect zip files?
A zip file is a file package that has been compressed to a specific format. ZIP, RAR, and 7z are common zip formats. You can also organize your files with data compression programs
