Windows user accounts easily allows you to change the name of the account. What's irritating about it, though is it doesn't change the name of the folder in C:\Users\ If you suffer from a bit of OCD like me, this is going to bug you until kingdom come....

It happens to the best of us - getting locked out of our computers. Sometimes, if you get your Windows pre-installed, you might really have no idea what the default administrator account is or its password. So how do you get the password or bypass it....

One nifty feature about the wallpaper features of Windows 7 is the slideshow feature where Windows can cycle through a set of pictures on your computer. Here's how to speed the slideshow up. 1. Right-click on desktop and select Personalize. 2. Click...

One nifty thing about Windows 7 (even in Vista, actually) is that your wallpaper can be dynamic. If you select one of the default themes, you might notice that it cycles through a set of pictures. To Choose a Folder 1. Right-click on desktop and...

Many would say that Aero Snap (that feature where Windows 7 automatically snaps your windows into place when you hover over your screens edges when moving the windows) is one of the best things that ever happened to the Aero interface. Personally, I think...

Another new feature of Windows 7 is Sticky Notes. This replaces the need for installing a third-party "Post-It" notes applications and even the old notes gadget that never really appealed to a number of Vista users. It's a pretty straight-forward app to...

One of the improvements to Windows 7 that has now become a personal favorite is the new Calculator. The Calculator has been left unchanged for the previous three version of Windows and for 7, we're glad it's almost a complete overhaul. For starters, it...

I can't believe how careless people are with their data nowadays. Last week, a friend used his flash drive to transfer files on my computer. As I was copying files, I accidentally included a couple of files which contained all of his financial...

After years of developing the built-in speech recognition engine with Windows, Microsoft has actually done a pretty good job with Windows Vista. Windows 7 promises to be an improvement over the previous OS so the speech recognition feature should be...

Some things never change. Even with the claimed advanced protection of Windows 7, we still think that it'd inevitably crash. I've seen a number of the famed Blue Screen of Death in Windows Vista but they're not as frequent as say, what I experienced with...

A really good way to save time using Windows is to use shortcut keys. Since Microsoft's so damn, almost all keyboards that you can buy for the PC has the Windows Key. Never mind if you're using it for Linux. Most people just dismiss it as a key that would...

One of the greatest advantages of multi-core technologies is that you can multitask to your heart's content. Do that with the old single core computers and you'd notice a significant drop in performance. But are you pushing your computer too hard? This...

Are you one of those Windows users who clutter up their desktops? I sure have a tendency to be one. I really don't like navigating through folders that's why my desktop becomes the default directory for saving documents and downloads. The problem...

Okay. So Windows 7 Aero's nice. But for some power users like me, we'd rather think of it as bloatware and eye candy. It also eats up some computing power too. Since I prefer to have my other apps use that computing power, I often tweak my visual settings...

So you're messing around Windows 7. (Most likely, it came with that new computer you just bought. If you're an early adapter who bought one off the shelf, you may skid reading this.) Then something goes wrong. Suddenly your computer's acting wonky -...