Change Your Command Prompt Options

The Windows command prompt is used to do things such as run programs, change system settings, get system information and run commands to perform various administrative tasks. One example of a commonly… Read More

Using Windows Computer Management

Everyone likes to manage their computer and configure it the way they want it to be. But you may not know about all of the things you can manage and configure on… Read More

Show the Windows Explorer Menu Bar in Windows 7

Menu bars are used in the Windows operating system as well as Windows software making it easy to find commonly used functions needed to use your computer or that software. Microsoft decided… Read More

Setting Your Default Printer in Windows

Everyone who has a computer has printed a document or picture at some point and many people have different printers for different kind of printing. For example you may have a laser… Read More

32 bit vs. 64 bit Versions of Windows

Starting with Windows XP, Microsoft started offering a 64 bit version of its operating system. Unfortunately the 64 bit version of Windows XP didn’t have much success thanks to the lack of… Read More

Shutdown Command Graphical Interface

Windows has always offered a way to shut down your own computer or other computers on the network remotely via a command line using the shutdown command. This comes in handy if… Read More

Changing Drive Letters in Windows

Drive letters are used with Windows and other operating systems to keep track of different partitions and physical hard drives. A drive letter doesn’t have to be assigned to a whole different… Read More

Windows Administrative Tools

Most of the Windows Server and Professional desktop operating systems provide a comprehensive set of tools that you can use to manage many of the behind the scene applications and settings used… Read More

Setting File Associations

I’m sure you have noticed that at the end of your files there is usually a dot or period and then 3 letters or numbers such as Report.xls. This is what is… Read More

Enabling and Using Shadow Copies on Windows Server

Microsoft offers a nice feature with their server operating system called Shadow Copies that makes it easy and quick to get a previous version of a file or folder without having to… Read More
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