Merry Christmas! You just found that new computer under your Christmas tree and now you want to set it up and optimize it. Well here are some tips to get you started and make your computing experience the best.
If you’ve made the leap to Windows 7, the good news is that many of its improvements and additions are very intuitive. But there are also plenty of goodies that aren’t so obvious: here’s our guide to some of the best.
Many blogs are always written by the same person, but there are a lot of reasons why people need to add a second user to their WordPress blogs. If you’ve not done it before, it can be intimidating. Here’s how.
All of us have a number of expensive items that are connected to the electrical grid most of the time; plugged into the walls in our living space. Do we need to protect those devices with surge protectors?
Your emails and other data from Outlook or Outlook Express represent some of the most important information on your computer. Here is how to back up that information so that you keep it safe.
One of the things that could be slowing down your computer is one or more problems with your hard disk. It’s always a good idea to run a disk check on your drives once in a while to check their health.
The quickest way to free up disk space on your Windows 7 PC is to run the disk cleanup utility that comes with Windows. If you have become short on hard disk space, here’s the best place to start to free some up.
A printer is one resource that the whole family can use! It saves money to be able to share one printer across all of the users and computers in your house. Here is how to share a printer under Windows.
One of the things that can slow down your PC is a fragmented hard disk, something that just happens over time. Fortunately, Windows ships with software to fix that problem and here’s how to use it.
Cheater’s Risk is a game developed by the Stimson Center to show how difficult and futile it is for rogue states to start stealth nuclear weapons programs. The game gives you choices along the way beginning with what country you want to be to start your nuclear weapons program. Choices continue and with each choice you learn your ongoing chances of being detected.
If you believe your Internet connection is down, here are some ways to test the health of your connection to the World Wide Web. Read on for some free or cheap options to fix the problem.
For some time my PC was ludicrously slow, and Outlook 2003 seemed to have something to do with it. Outlook would take forever to download email, and it would often crash, prompting even more delays when it decided to “Check my Personal file” because it was not closed properly. Arrghhhhh!
It truly is possible to forget your Windows XP or Vista password, especially after you have just entered a new one. When that happens, you need to recover your password fast! Here’s how.
If you wish to automatically follow everyone that follows you on Twitter, there are a number of third-party services that make that possible, though Twitter no longer allows the practice directly, for good reasons.
It’s bound to happen sooner or later: you delete an important file and now can’t find it anywhere on your system, including the recycle bin. Luckily, scouring your hard drive isn’t as difficult as you may think, and 9 times out of 10, the file still exists somewhere on your hard drive.
Twitter is the latest in-thing. YouTube, Facebook, blogging and the like have already been on the tips of everyone’s tongues whether they use it or not. This is exactly where Twitter is right now. The user base is growing at an incredible rate and the usefulness of the service is growing as a result. There’s just one problem – lots of people still don’t understand Twitter.
Firewall alerts come in all shapes and sizes, and vary greatly depending on the type of firewall you’re using at the moment. Let’s take a look at what they mean, how to decide whether they’re legitimate, and how to respond to them.
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