Here is a cool app that will let you change and personalized your Windows Start Menu Orb. This is a great way if you want to get a away from the usual Windows 7 Orb. Before you do any customization, it is very important that you first create a system restore point. You can do [...]

Do you have a laptop and you want to get more battery life out of it? Do you know that Windows 7 has hidden tool that can examine your laptop’s energy and will provide recommendation on how you can improve it. Well, now you know. Just follow the steps below to get your Power Efficiency [...]

Have you notice the dotted rectangle your around your icon or made a file selection. This dotted line is better known as focus rectangle. I know what you’re thinking–there’s nothing we can do to remove it. It seems that XP and Vista were born with it. But just like how doctors manage to separate a [...]

Want to access your programs without the need to turn off the annoying UAC dialog box? In Vista there is a hidden administrator account which is disabled by default. What is the advantages of using this account? well with this account you can access any programs without suffering  from the annoying UAC dialog box. The [...]

Conficker is a popular type of worm that spreads and infects other computers through network. This virus inflicts damage on vulnerable Windows system. If it successfully infiltrates your computers it will first try to attack the vulnerability in the Microsoft Server Service. This virus will also attempt to brute force admin password so it can [...]

The problem that we always have to face when we upgrade our operating system is the incompatibility of some programs especially old programs running on the new system. Just like in Windows XP when it’s first release, there are lots of applications that are incompatible with the new system. The problem is still the same in Vista, there are still many programs and applications that are incompatible with Windows Vista due to unavailability of drivers and such. When you run a program that is not compatible with Vista you may get a pop-up message stating that you can no longer run this program as some .dll files which are needed to run are not available in system 32. The question is how can you be able to use again your favorite application on Vista?, The answer is you can use Vista’s compatibility feature to address the issue. If you are unable to run a certain application Just Right click the .exe file and select properties. Click compatibility tab (as shown below).