How to Reset the Hard Disk Dirty Bit in Windows with SystemRecovery

How to Reset the Hard Disk Dirty Bit in Windows

If you are the type who likes to keep their computer running in tip top shape, then you might occasionally check the optimization status of your hard drives. With newer versions of… Read More
Use a Host Wi-Fi Adapter to Connect a VMware Workstation VM to a Wireless Internet Connection

How to Connect a VMware VM Directly to Wi-Fi

Using virtualization to create virtual machines is a great way to do things such as test software, learn a new operating system or even run legacy applications that wont run on your… Read More
Cloning a hard drive using the Rescuezilla software

How to Clone Your OS Hard Drive for Free Using Rescuezilla

There are many reasons to clone your Windows or OS hard drive to another drive. You may be running out of space and would rather migrate your system drive to a larger… Read More
Switch a Standard Windows Account to an Admin Account Without Being a Local Administrator

Switch a Standard Windows Account to an Admin Account Without Being a Local Administrator

In order to be able to perform any task on your Windows computer, you will need to either log in with an account that has administrator access or know the credentials to… Read More
Add a Menu Toolbar to Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge

Add a Menu Toolbar to Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge

You may have noticed as applications are getting updated that the classic drop down menus are being replaced with toolbars, ribbons and other icons. In many cases, you will need to open… Read More
Removing all of the images from a Word document

How to Remove all the Pictures from a Word Document in One Step

As you probably know, Microsoft Word allows you to place images in your documents so they do not to be only text based. Once you start adding pictures to your documents, you… Read More
Bulk deleting older emails in Microsoft Outlook

How to Delete All Emails Over a Certain Age in Outlook Webmail

Most people these days have one or more email accounts and access them either through an email client such as Microsoft Outlook or the newer Outlook for Windows app. You may also… Read More
How to Install Windows with a Local Account or with no Internet Connection

How to Install Windows with a Local Account or with no Internet Connection

If you have ever installed Windows, you know that Microsoft requires you to use and existing or new Microsoft account to login with during the Windows installation process. But many people would… Read More
Enable HP Wi-Fi Direct printing

How to Enable HP Wi-Fi Direct Printing & Find your Wireless Printer Name & Password

Wireless printers have been around for some time now and since many people prefer using Wi-Fi for their devices, it makes sense that you would want to be able to print to… Read More
How to Change the Default Browser Used When Searching from the Windows Taskbar Search Box

How to Change the Default Browser Used When Searching from the Taskbar Search Box

By default, Microsoft forces all taskbar searches to open in the Edge browser using the Bing search engine, even if you have already set Google Chrome or Firefox as your default browser.… Read More
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