Ever get a Blue Screen on your computer, only to have it automatically reboot without showing you the message? This tutorial will walk you through making sure your computer is configured to show you the details of the message before rebooting.
This tutorial will help you use an application to make a graphical “roadmap” of the files on your hard drive. It will allow you to see what takes up the most of the space and where they are on the drive.
Use this tutorial to set all the folder on your computer to look the same automatically. It will set all of them to lok the same, as well as all the folders you create in the future.
Don’t have an anti-virus and don’t want to shell out a lot of money to get one? This tutorial will guide you through setting up AVG Anti-Virus to eliminate all viruses on your machine. The nice things about AVG is it has a high detection rate and is totally free.
A Simple, but useful, tutorial showing you how to make your computer show hidden files and folders. This needs to be done to do a lot of tweaking within windows XP.
If you are looking for ways to increase the speed of your computer, defragmenting is a good portion of that process. This tutorial will show you how to use the Windows XP built-in defrag tool to help increase loading times of your PC.
Has your computer been running slower than normal? This could be due to too much buildup of temporary files and unneeded registry keys. In this tutorial, we will walk through using a free application called CCleaner to clean up these pesky issues.
If your computer is used by other people, it may be a good idea to create some user accounts so that you can protect your personal data. By creating user accounts, you allow users to access only certain resources, like certain folders, applications and so on. Apart from having a good firewall and an antivirus, creating separate accounts for each user is a great way to increase your network security.
This is another addition to the newly added Windows Basics section of our site. This tutorial will show you how to use Windows XP’s Set Program Access and Defaults to set which programs will open for certain tasks.
The purpose of this tutorial is to beginners some insight into TCP/IP settings. For this guide I will be using Microsoft Windows XP, but the version of the operating system you are using doesn’t really matter. If you are using a different version of Windows, you should be able to find the same settings that I talk about in the tutorial, but there may be a different way of getting to those settings.
This tutorial will show you how to configure Microsoft Windows XP Automatic Updates. The main reason that you want to install update automatically is for security. Microsoft will regularly release patches to the operating system, and you can have them installed for you with no hassle.
Users migrating to XP from previous versions of windows may be surprised to see that the file extensions are not shown. Even if you aren’t accustomed to it, it is good practice to show the extension of known files. This tutorial will guide you through the simple steps to show the three letter file extensions. … Read more