free computer tips

Recover emails, files, and data from a crashed hard drive or computer

May 26, 2010

Recovering files from a crashed hard drive or simply recovering data from any hard drive can be lot easier now days as we all have devices and even data recovery freeware available to help us with this task. Everyone I know dreads the day when their computer might crash because they haven’t quite got around [...]

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Restore the Run Command Window to the Start Menu

May 26, 2010

Computer users are often faced with the dilemma of a missing run command window in the Windows XP start menu and need to restore the run command to it’s usual place. This is also a common problem in Windows Vista as the run command has to be added to the start menu manually as it [...]

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How to get to regedit and gpedit.msc when there is no run or command window

May 26, 2010

When you cannot get to your run dialog box or your command window it can cause problems for you. Even to bring your run box back you might need to use regedit or gpedit.msc. See how to restore the run command box. The run window is used to type in commands like cmd for a [...]

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Computer restarts after loading the Windows Logo screen

May 26, 2010

Have you ever had this happen to you? You try to start your computer. Everything seems fine until it gets to the Windows logo screen and then restarts again. If you let it go it will possibly go on forever. From my experience with repairing computers I have found two main causes for this problem. [...]

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Change User Passwords When Logged in as an Administrator

May 26, 2010

Changing other user passwords can be a costly and nasty trick to perform. I often have people come in with their computers because they have simply forgotten their password. However in some cases they have not forgotten their user password, it has been changed. When curious minds get hold of this way to change user [...]

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How to enable or disable the show Bluetooth icon in the notification area

May 25, 2010

Having the Bluetooth icon in the taskbar notification area enables you to access the Bluetooth settings quickly. This is only possible if you have in built Bluetooth adapter or an add on adapter installed on your computer or laptop. Then all you have to do is double click on the icon in the taskbar. Then [...]

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Perform a disk cleanup to delete unwanted or unused files

May 25, 2010

Performing a disk cleanup on a computer that has Windows is easy and hassle free. It is great for the inexperienced computer user as it deletes the files for you and is therefore safer than doing it yourself. The disk cleanup can delete unused and temporary files from your hard drive. Files such as the [...]

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How to Format an External Hard Drive or a Spare Hard Drive

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If you need to format an external hard drive it is a lot easier than formatting a hard drive that is being used to house your main Windows operating system. Your external hard drive might be an old hard drive that you have placed into an external hard drive case for storage purposes, and you [...]

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Computer Maintenance Checklist – Keep Your Computer Running Smoothly

May 24, 2010

When you first got your new computer home and it was running like clockwork, I bet the thought of a huge computer maintenance checklist never entered your thoughts? The thrill of the new machine over powers you, but unfortunately after a few weeks of pleasurable use it becomes slower due to the buildup of data. [...]

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Remove a homepage tab in Internet Explorer 7

August 5, 2009

Internet Explorer 7 lets you add as many homepages to your browser as you like. However, sometimes I get carried away and have way too many, and this is when I have to remove at least a few. Here’s how to Remove a homepage from your tabs in Internet Explorer 7 Open Internet Explorer 7 [...]

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Change your home page tab in Internet Explorer 7

February 5, 2009

All the previous versions of Internet Explorer only allowed for one homepage to be saved and therefore there was only one way to change it. Now with Internet Explorer 7 you can have as many homepages as you like. I prefer to try and stick to 3, however sometimes I add a few more that [...]

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A free program to recover (Recuva) and restore accidentally deleted pictures, photos, and files

October 22, 2008

Sooner or later you will be desperate to find out how to recover deleted files, because accidentally deleting your precious pictures, photos, and files is bound to happen to anyone. I hope that you do not encounter this dilemma, however if you do, you may possibly have a chance to recover deleted files. One way [...]

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