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How to add a menu to your taskbar

June 1, 2010

In this article I will show you how to add a menu into your taskbar so you can access it anytime you like. What is a taskbar you say? It is the blue bar across the bottom of your screen with the start button on the left and the time on the right. How to [...]

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How to create a list of filenames from a directory and send it to notepad to save or print

May 30, 2010

Free Computer Help By Mitz Have you ever wanted to see a list of files or folders that are contained in a particular directory. I have. One day I decided that it would be great to have a list of the files from my music folder. But then I discovered that Windows does not have [...]

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Viewing Your IP Address Information

May 30, 2010

Free Computer Help By Mitz Here are two ways you can determine your IP address information: Try this: Go to the Start menu / Choose Run / Then type cmd (Which would give you a command prompt) Type this: IPCONFIG /ALL This will give you your information. If you want to save the info to [...]

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How to show hidden files in Windows XP

May 26, 2010

In this tutorial you will see how to show hidden files in Windows XP.  All Windows versions hide certain files to protect the data from being tampered with or destroyed accidentally. These files are invisible to a computer user until they choose to show hidden files. However sometimes we need to access these hidden files [...]

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Safely Remove or delete programs from your computer

May 25, 2010

New computer users commonly seem to think that to uninstall a program, you simply dump it in the recycle bin. Well this only gets rid of the desktop shortcut, not the actual program. Even if you go into Program files to the  folder where the program is and delete that, there will always be more [...]

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How to Defrag Your Computer Hard Drive

May 24, 2010

Learning how to defrag your computer is a very important lesson when using a computer. When you install programs onto your computer the files are scattered all over the place in the closest available space. Therefore it is important that we organize the files that were installed into a logical order. When you defrag your [...]

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Change the look of your folders by adding pictures to them

May 24, 2010

This is one of my favorite tweaks to add to my computer when I am setting it up. Not only does this make my folders look great, but it also makes them easy to find. It is always hard to distinguish between folders when there are so many of them and they all look the [...]

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