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Give your Start menu the power it deserves.
The average user may not have any reason to access Disk Management or the Device Manager on a consistent basis. But for the people that like to tinker, adding power shortcuts to the Start Menu makes geeking-out much faster. The shortcuts we’ll be adding today are for Disk Management, [...]

For those of you who do not fear the black, murky depths of the command line, here’s a very useful tip for viewing your system information all in one convenient location. Just click Start, then Run and type cmd and hit OK. This will bring you to the command prompt. Next, type systeminfo.exe and hit enter.
This [...]

We feel the need to occasionally publish something like this because we invariably still see these mistakes happening in the field. As technology continues to improve, it becomes more imprtant than ever to stick to the basics.  Below are some of the things you should do and some of the things you should not.
DO
Do make [...]

With the incorporation of servers in homes and small offices becoming more common, it becomes more practical to keep folders in one location for all users. For instance, users can share a single My Documents folder on their Windows server (or a different hard drive) that has greater capacity than the C: drive in their PC. [...]

What is Microsoft trying to do, permanently disable us? This whole navigating to the shutdown button thing is inhumane and might even be considered torture. It takes how many clicks–two, three to shutdown a PC? Well, we’re going to help with that. Our next tip in our ongoing guide to laziness is creating a desktop icon [...]

You’re lazy, but that’s okay. You’re allowed to be when it comes to computing. Computers are supposed to make our lives easier, right? So why type things out or go through a complicated series of mouse clicks to get simple tasks done? As your resident lazy geek, I will point out a few of the [...]

We’re not suggesting you have anything to hide, or that you’re trying to be sneaky. But we have a quick way for you to make specific desktop shortcuts invisible. You can then put the invisible shortcut in a certain area of the desktop and be able to access the files within by clicking what appears [...]

Group Policy Editor
Windows XP users can use a powerful tool called the Local Group Policy Editor to tweak Windows XP Professional computers. This utility provides users with a graphical user interface that allows changes to be made to virtually everything in Windows. For example, you can change how Windows reacts when you press CTRL + [...]

How to Use the Prt Scrn Key to Capture Screenshots
There really is a use for that Prt Scrn key in the upper right corner of your keyboard.
 You know the key you push and nothing seems to happen. Well, something IS happening. Each time you press that key, it captures the screen that is on your [...]

Top Five Things To Do After Buying a PC
1. Make a Recovery Disk
2. Submit any warranty or rebate information
3. Write down or take Pictures of Serial Numbers
4. Get Microsoft Updates
5. Install an Antivirus
Make a Recovery Disk
It is becoming increasingly common for major manufacturers to not ship recovery disks with computers. If your hard drive fails [...]