Windows Tutorials and Tips

As electronic as our lives have become, we still need things printed on paper. Whether it is the quarterly report or a simple correspondence, we need our printers. In this tutorial, we talk about printer problems-from installing them to using them-and then discuss some options for fixing them.

Microsoft Windows Vista comes with new features that make your computer significantly easier and faster to use than earlier versions of Windows.

This tutorial helps you understand why Windows lives inside your computer and introduces Microsoft’s latest Windows version, called Windows Vista. It explains how Windows Vista differs from previous Windows versions, whether you should upgrade to Vista, and how well your faithful old PC will weather the upgrade.

Fast Windows XP boots up compared with other Microsoft operating systems. This bootup time is something that everyone is becoming more concerned about as the need for PC speed becomes increasingly more important.

This tutorial lists to be the most popular, annoying, or just frustrating dumb error messages. Obviously, it is not the entire list. That would take too much room to print - and too much booze for me to write them all down.

Going to the trouble to properly configure your antivirus software can make your life easier down the road.

That lowly bar at the bottom of your screen rates as the best piece of real estate in Windows. Why? You can always get to it, no sweat, with (at most) a simple swoosh of the mouse.

This tutorial will show you how to defend your computer against the major menaces of operating a computer: spam, spyware, adware, and viruses. Viruses have been around for a very long time; spam just keeps getting worse and worse; and now there is a new computer menace that is infecting millions of computers, known as spyware and adware.

In this tutorial you will learn, how to shut down, switch users and restart your computer quickly.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to map a folder to a drive using commands.