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Articles Current Articles | Archives | Search Entries for the 'Windows' Category Mouse Jerky Choppy Movement on Windows 7 Dell Inspiron 560 One day my mouse on my desktop Dell i560 was jerky. The movement of the mouse did not exactly match the movement of the pointer on the screen. This is... Windows 347 How to Install LabTec Webcam Pro Windows 7 My brother-in-law gave me a Labtec Webcam Pro. I have a Windows 7 64-bit computer. Here is how I installed it. 1. Download the Labtec Webcam Pro driv... Windows 1979 Dell Datasafe Disable Remove from Systray on Windows 7 On my Dell Windows 7 computer here is what I have done to turn off Dell Datasafe. I do not want to unistall the program, I just do not want it to... Windows 2297 Speed Up Slow Windows 7 on Dell by Stopping Processes and Services Make Windows 7 faster by stopping processes and services from running that you do not use regularly. This article is to let you know of the specific ... Windows 1276 Windows Set My Documents to Network Drive If you have an office with a number of computers, you may want to save all your data on one common computer, so you only have to back up one comp... Windows 1214 Internet Explorer Remember Passwords and Usernames for Websites Via Auto Complete Internet Explorer has a convenient auto complete feature that remembers your websites' usernames and passwords. If you have mutiple usernames for a w... Windows 1111 Windows Live Mesh Going Away Use Windows Live Sync and Sky Drive Windows Live Mesh is going away and being rolled into Windows Live Sync and Sky Drive. This changes the back up plan I wrote about here. www.interne... Windows 1934 Cannot Copy, Delete, Move, Open or Rename Certain Files or Folders in Windows When you try to copy or move a folder you get an error that you cannot copy or move the folder. When you open the contents of the folder, you fi... Windows 1562 Beware of USB, External and CD Drives Carrying Viruses One of my customers got a virus from a shrink wrapped USB drive from Costco. Think about that. Imagine you buy a package of brand new USB drives from... Windows 1378 MIRC Virus on Sandisk USB Drive from Costco on Windows XP My customer got a virus from a USB Drive on Windows XP. He used the USB drive on three computers and all got infected. We suspect the virus cam... Windows 1516 Dell DataSafe Local Backup not able to detect the Recovery Partition Your new Dell computer may have come with Dell DataSafe Local Backup and Dell DataSafe Online. On my computer Dell DataSafe Local Backup gave me this... Windows 12117 Oy Vey, Not Indian Support Again The SD cards from my camera were not working in my new computer so I called Dell. The technician from India got on my computer remotely, checked some... Windows 1221 Death of Another Hard Drive Bought a new Dell computer last month to replace my 5 year old laptop because the hard drive had failed. See Death of a Hard Drive. I spent the last ... Windows 1091 Windows Live Mesh for Automated Real Time Backup and Synchronization Microsoft has an online offering called Windows Live Mesh at mesh.com. This service provides a free, 5 gigabyte online desk top that will automatical... Windows 2470 Windows 7 Wide Screen and Wallpaper My favorite thing about my new computer and Windows 7 is my wide screen and the wallpaper slide show. If you are going to get a new monitor, recommen... Windows 1007 Windows 7 and 3D PhotoSynth www.PhotoSynth.net is an incredible tool that combines your photos into a 3-D interactive walk-through. You need a Windows Live.com email address and... Windows 1100 Windows 7 and Windows Live Web 1.0 was static and one-way websites, you getting information or ordering products from websites. Web 2.0 was social media, with you interacting w... Windows 861 How to Pin Any Item to the Task Bar in Windows 7 Good article here on How to Pin Any Time to the Task Bar in Windows 7. http://windows7center.com/windows-7-tips/how-to-pin-any-item-to-the-taskbar-in... Windows 912 How to Remove Folders from Libraries in Windows 7 In Windows 7 on the left side of the explorer under Desktop is a Libraries folder. You create your own libraries and then add folders to your librari... Windows 924 Getting a New Computer with Windows 7 If you are in the market for a new computer, consider this. Bought a new computer. Sam's and Best Buy had about the same deal. Here are the specs of ... Windows 904 Death of a Hard Drive I back up my critical data every day to three different websites. The rest of my data, like photos and music, I backup regularly to two external hard... Windows 896 Windows 7 Home Premium vs Professional vs Ultimate I bought a new Dell computer today which came with Windows 7 Home Premium and read a little to see whether I need to upgrade. I do. For normal consum... Windows 1199 .mp4 video files do not play, get x in browser Problem: .mp4 video files do not play in web browser. Get a small box with an x in it. In your Windows Internet Explorer web browser, ... Windows 2053 Could not copy file xxx.dll using Windows Vista or Windows 7 Installing from Network Drive When installing a client program from a network drive, using Windows Vista or Windows 7, you may get an error that certain files could not be copied. ... Windows 925 Enable Remote Desktop Connection Software for Access to Console from Client To use remote desktop Enable Remote Desktop on the Computer You Want to Control Put a password on your administator account Go to Control... Windows 870 How to Capture a Windows Screen for Free To capture a Windows screen press the Print Scr key. This copies the screen to the clipboard. Go into any program that supports images. You can use M... Windows 925 The publisher could not be verified for network installed programs If you install a program on a network drive and run it from your computer you get a message that says: The publisher could not be verified. Are you s... Windows 1299 Microsoft Mouse Magnifier Turn Off Microsoft's mouse is pretty nice. It has an extra button on the left side, which is not obvious. If you accidently click that button, by default a ma... Windows 1695 USB Drive Letter Changes The issue is when plugging in a USB drive, the drive letter changes. You may have multiple external hard drives that you use for backup. Your backup ... Windows 1012 Copy From Left to Right Developing good habits can save you time and avoid errors. This is true in life and in your use of computer. You can be much more efficient and acc... Windows 1005 Ftp Windows Network Places Are you using an Ftp program to update files on websites? They are useful and I use them frequently, but another convenient way to update online fo... Windows 1011 Free Tools Audacity and Paint Microsoft has a lot of good programmers and they can write a lot of software. As Windows was growing, Microsoft programmers gobbled up more and more p... Windows 1055 Laptop Ergonomics My right hand has been inflamed for six months. Why? From the contortations my poor hand was making on the laptop mouse pad, and reaching for the n... Windows 841 Clean Up Your System Tray Look at the lower right hand corner of your computer. This is called the System Tray. Do you have a lot of icons down there? Each of those icons... Windows 997 How to Remove a Virus If you are tricked into installing a virus, you can restore your computer to how it was before the infection.Windows has a feature called System Resto... Windows 1082 Get Rid of Anti-Virus Programs 1. Article: How to Not Get a Virus 2. Article: How to Remove a Virus Article 1 above explains why you do not need an Anti-Virus program to protect y... Windows 1056 How to Not Get a Virus There was a time when computers were extremely vulnerable to viruses. Somewhere around 2005, plus or minus a couple years, Microsoft... Windows 1098

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