If you’ve ever looked for files that you knew were in a certain directory, but can no longer find them there is a possibility that the files have been hidden (someone else who uses the computer may have hidden them; you may have hidden the files, but don’t know how to get them to show)….Continue Reading

The following instructions will allow your computer to shut down much faster. This specific change tells the operating system to shut down the services on your computer at faster rate; instead of shutting down at the default 20,000 ms, your computer will be shutting down those services in 1,000 ms, after applying this change you…Continue Reading

In this brief tutorial you will learn how to rename multiple files without having to go through the trouble of renaming one by one. This is a great way of renaming pictures for a particular event. Instead of sticking to the names that the camera designates you can have your pictures renamed to something more…Continue Reading

"You just sat down in a conference call (which you’re late for), your boss is in the room with his boss at the other end of the line with another three supervisors listening in, your notes are on the laptop so you turn it on, only to realize you had left the volume full blast…Continue Reading

I have received about 3 emails in the past two months claiming to originate from eBay – they normally asked me to logon to my account via a link that they provided on the email. That link led me to a site that looked just like eBay but wasn’t – the address bar said login.ebay.com…Continue Reading

This is Part 2 of Speeding Up Shutdown Times. This time around instead of messing with the registry as we did last time, we are simply going to install a utility that Microsoft released in response to slow shutdown times. You just need to install the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service, which, “…helps to ensure…Continue Reading

One of my biggest problems at the end of the day is shutting down my laptop…it takes way too long to shut down. I’ve gotten it to where it’s fast booting up, but the shutdown times sometimes exceed a couple of minutes. This of course is very ‘painful’ when I’m trying to run out of…Continue Reading

I really like Google’s Image Search, however when I’m searching for a specific picture I hate having to go through each page trying to find what I’m looking for. Well, I stumbled upon a little porgram – Google Grab developed by SAS21 which allows you to do image searches and download the results to a…Continue Reading

Everybody has come across one of the most dreaded situations when using your computer, accidentally deleting files. For many out there, the battle was lost, files can no longer be seen by Windows when deleted from the Recycle Bin, do not loose hope! There are a slew of programs on the web that allow you…Continue Reading

If you share your computer without creating seperate accounts chances are all of your browser history is accesible to anyone who uses that computer. If you’d like to keep that data private you can create seperate accounts for each of the computers users or you can periodically clear all of you browsing history. Below you…Continue Reading