Windows Tip of the Day

When Microsoft releases a new version of Windows it can sometime take days or weeks before the users can receive the ability to get the upda...

In a previous article , I talked about the Windows 10 Download Notifier for Windows 7 and 8.1.  This application runs in the notification a...

If you take advantage of the free upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or 8.1. This offer will be available after July 29, 2015, and will on...

It seems like most people tried to bypass Windows 8 because the user interface was too dramatically different. Personally, I was a fan of th...

Microsoft Image Composite Editor (aka ICE) was one of the best free image stitching programs that I was aware of.  For those not familiar wi...

Sometimes an application will create a file that has an "illegal" file name (that is, a name that's reserved by the operating ...

It seems like everyone (online and offline) is talking about the "Heartbleed" SSL bug.  To over simplify how it works, a malicious...

Note: This tool requires an understanding of IPv4 networking to utilize it. If you have a small home or business network, and need a way t...

You can share your laptop's Internet connection with other WiFi devices (for example, an iPad or any other Wi-Fi enabled devices) using ...

If a user forgets their password, not all is lost if a password reset disk was created ahead of time. This disk allows a lost password to be...

In a previous article I talked about a software tool for troubleshooting problems with a wireless network signal.  This article focuses on ...

Have a WiFi network and not sure why you're not getting a good signal from the wireless access point (WAP) or router?  There could be se...

WinKey + X : Displays the Power User menu, which grants quick access to administrator functions and tools such as the command prompt, compu...

Did you know you can change the File Explorer's (formerly known as Windows Explorer) default behavior of opening the Libraries folder?  ...

Are you a user of Windows 8 Professional or Enterprise edition and would like to check the status of activation on the local computer? Want ...

Is your computer taking a long time to boot up, shutdown or go to standby?  In the Event Logs it is possible to find the length of time it ...

Below is a list of  general keyboard shortcuts that can be used in most programs.   For most people, most of these shortcuts are already kno...

Are you confused by all the 802.11 WiFi "alphabet soup of letter name" standards, such as 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, etc? Currentl...

In Windows, you can have one of two types of IP addresses: dynamic or static. Dynamic IP addresses are temporarily assigned to a network de...

Some windows commands require that you use the full path name of a file, which can be quite long depending on how deep it's in a folder ...