Your System Administrator Disabled the Display Control Panel Message

The Display Control Panel applet is used to change things such as background wallpaper, screen colors and screen resolution. You may encounter problems trying to change your display settings if you have… Read More

Configuring Windows Parental Controls

If you have kids at home who use your computer then I’m sure you do not want them to be able to use the computer in the same ways you do with… Read More
Video card

PCI vs. AGP vs. PCI Express Video Cards

The video card is the hardware component in your computer that translates the video signal from your computer to your monitor. Without one you can’t see what is going on with your… Read More

What is Bluetooth?

I’m sure you have seen those people driving in their cars where it looks like they are talking to themselves but are actually using a wireless headset to connect to their phone.… Read More

DDR vs. DDR2 Memory

RAM (Random Access Memory) or just memory as its commonly called is always evolving and getting faster and faster while the capacity keeps on getting larger. All computers come with memory and… Read More

Windows Shortcut Keys

Everyone loves a faster way to do things in order to increase your productivity. Microsoft realized this when they added shortcut keys to Windows as well as their other software products. Most… Read More

Boot to or Install Linux from a USB Flash Drive with Universal USB Installer

For you Windows users who have always wanted to check out Linux but don’t want to install it on your computer or don’t have an extra computer lying around to install it… Read More

Internet Explorer Tries to Use Dial Up Connection With Broadband

You may run into an instance where you use Internet Explorer and a broadband connection such as DSL or Cable and it tries to dial a dialup connection every time you open… Read More

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition

The Mozilla Firefox web browser is a popular alternative to the built in Internet Explorer web browser that comes with Windows. It has some unique features that other browsers don’t offer. Firefox… Read More

Change the Default Font for New Word Documents

Most software comes with defaults for things such as fonts, page layout, save location and so on. If it’s quality software then it will let you change these defaults so you can… Read More
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