Google Talk and Gmail have been fully integrated into one another; Google Talk notifies you of incoming messages and Gmail allows Google Talk to be displayed within the Gmail interface. This is a very simple thing to do, however Google has made it difficult to find. If you scroll down to the bottom of the [...]

Found these while browsing the Microsoft website, probably be working on a couple of Visual guides for these as well as other How-to guides related to Windows Vista. Description from the Microsoft website: "These step-by-step guides provide instructions for deploying or migrating to Windows Vista. These guides also describe how to configure security, monitor performance, [...]

I found this awesome theme on digg.com, I have installed it on my machine and it works great. The advantage of this theme pack is that it does not require a third-party program, it modifies adds to the existing set of themes on your machine. The theme is absolutely gorgeous, you don’t sacrifice any [...]

Have you ever had the need to send an email, but were slowed down because Outlook wasn’t open? I sure have and I’m all about productivity. The how-to below will show you how to create an email message without ever opening Outlook. We’ll create a shortcut on your desktop that when activated will open a [...]

This little guide will show you how-to disable the Windows XP Welcome Screen.

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This little guide will show you how-to change the icon on any drive on your computer from the default icon. There are two ways to change the icon of any given item in Windows XP, for the sake ofsimplicity, we’ll cover the easy route. You essentially be creating an .inf file that will have information [...]

This little guide will show you how-to disable/enable the file extension on any file from being displayed. This is useful when you rename files and you sometimes forget to include the file extension and you recieve an error…hope this helps! Follow this link to view the screenshots.

If you find yourself in this predicament there are tools available to help you. Visit Login Recovery, the author of this site offers a tool to recover lost Windows XP password. It works for administrator and user accounts. The tool doesn’t change the password or anything it just tells you what the password is. It [...]

In this step by step guide I will show you how to increase your wireless networks security. This guide was created using a Linksys WAP54G Wireless Access Point. I will cover other routers and access points as soon as I get my hands on them. For the time being you will learn the following:
Change your [...]

Have you ever tried to join a school’s wireless network and were asked to provide your laptop’s MAC address for validation? If so, this easy to follow guide will show where you can find your computer’s MAC address in Windows XP.
So why a MAC address? MAC addresses are like ’serial’ numbers that are unique to [...]