Post Tagged with: "control panel"

How To Take Control of UAC

Even though UAC or User Account Control pop-ups has good intention of helping you make your computer secure it is one of the most annoying addition on Vista. In Windows 7 it becomes more tolerable it displayed less warnings, but what I like is that you can also fine-tune its notification to give you a [...]

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How to Turn Windows Features on or off in Windows 7

Some Applications have been removed on Windows, they became an optional download. But other applications such as IE8, Media Player, Media Center and DVD Maker are still included. Before, applications are tied into Windows OS especially with Internet Explorer. In previous versions of windows removing those unwanted apps is a pain because you need to [...]

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How to Display Hidden Files and Folders

This tip is for beginners only and for people that don’t know about this tip. I’ve been ask a lot of times on how they can see files or folders that are hidden. So here is a  quick tip on to show those windows hidden files. By default, windows hides important files to keep them [...]

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What is Downloading, Uploading, Installing and Uninstalling

Downloading, Uploading, Installing and Uninstalling are the most popular and most used word in the computer and cyber world. I know that most of us especially tech geeks and even intermediate users know the meaning of those terms. But there are users that are still confuse on many of the computer terms especially on those [...]

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How to Disable Internet Explorer

Are you tired of using Internet Explorer? There are lots of reasons why you may want to disable Internet Explorer from your computer. Alternative browser specifically Mozilla are much faster, provides better security and has lots of great features such as addons and themes available that Internet Explorer users are dreaming to have. The easiest [...]

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How to Remove Shutdown Button on Logon Screen

Having the shutdown button displayed on your Windows XP logon screen can be very inconvenient at times. Your kids or any people that are sharing your computer can accidentally turn off your computer and close all you programs. To prevent this from happening you can just easily disable the “Turn off computer” button. You can [...]

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How to Fix Slow File Transfer in Windows Vista

Do you notice that when transferring files on Vista were much slower especially when moving from Windows XP to Vista.  Well, if you still have your old XP operating system installed you can just boot to  XP and transfer your files using XP. But that would not be very convenient, right? I have here a [...]

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How to send messages using command prompt

Do you want to chat or just send a private message to your friend, family member or office mates without using any fancy program? Back in college me and my friends uses this trick to talk inside the classroom because we were not allowed to download or use any messenger services. A lot of this [...]

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Unattended Disk Cleanup

This article will show you how to create  a simple batch program that can easily clean your disk. This cleanup script will also clear windows prefetch directory. This folder becomes cluttered with old application. performing this cleanup would free up some free space. Step 1. Create a new text file and place the following contents [...]

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How to disable PC speaker beeping on errors

Do you get annoyed by the beeps and noises that comes from your PC speaker when your PC encounters an error but can’t find a way to turn it off?, then here are the easy steps to disable it. first step, Open your registry and find the key below. second step, Create a new string [...]

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