Windows 7 comes with a great feature called HomeGroup that makes sharing between windows 7 machines very easy. We have already written on sharing files and printers between Windows 7 based computers here:
How to Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 Based Computers with HomeGroup
Unfortunately, HomeGroup feature is not compatible with Windows XP and Vista. [...]
Whenever you do your work on any file in you PC, your operating system keeps record of all your activities like when you created, modified or accessed a file. The date of creation, date of view and date of document modification are persistently added to the properties of the file. One can easily see it [...]
If you are the only one who uses your computer or you just use it for gaming or something not that important, so you might not want to have to log in every time you boot your computer.
By default Windows 7 needs a password to log in to protect your PC from unauthorized access. But you can turn off Windows Native Password Protection [...]
By default in Windows 7, Vista and XP OS has Cut and Copy option available in the windows explorer right click menu. To increase your working speed you can customize this menu by adding Copy To / Move To option. To do that you need some registry modifications.
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1- Copy this 645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E
2- Go to Start Menu > Run write regedit hit enter
3- Press Ctrl + F, paste what you have copied in step 1
4- Double click on Default key on the right side & enter new name of your choice
5- Press Ok
When you are working on computer and you need to restart due to any reason the most irritating thing is to open all the folders and windows again, after the restart. There is and option in Windows operating system this problem. let’s see how to do this.
When we delete any file or folder in Microsoft Windows it shows a confirmation dialog with message “Are you sure you want to delete“. You can skip this confirmation message [...]
Remove Start button form taskbar. Start Killer is a free utility that removes the Start button from your taskbar and give you additional space on taskbar.
In the Windows XP Start Menu screenshot below, you can see a User name ‘Knight‘ in the top left corner. In this post you are going to learn how to remove that User name from start menu in Windows XP.
BTW – I wonder why one would wish that user name to disappear! Even then If [...]