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By George Norman on 09 Sep 2009
UAC (short for User Account Control) is one of the features in Windows Vista that made the operating system annoying. Microsoft implemented UAC as a means to make the user experience a safer oneBy George Norman on 09 Sep 2009
Some of the functionality the Windows operating system provides is easily accessibly via the right click context menu. Just right click an empty space on the desktop and a drop down menu appears; from that drop down menu you canBy George Norman on 09 Sep 2009
The Microsoft developed Windows Vista operating system, just like Windows XP before it, automatically displays a list of recently accessed files (and programs) in the Start Menu. In WindowsBy George Norman on 09 Sep 2009
here are two noticeable differences between the Windows Vista operating system and the Windows 7 operating system. The first difference is the fact that Windows 7 got a whole lot of positiveBy George Norman on 09 Sep 2009
If you want to access your desktop from a remote location – for example when you are visiting your relatives in Cleveland – you need to have remote desktop turned on. The catch is that this feature is not available by defaultBy George Norman on 09 Sep 2009
The simplest way to open a file is to double click the file or by selecting it and then pressing the Enter key on your keyboard – whatever software application is set up to open that file type will then launch. Alternatively you could select a fileBy George Norman on 09 Sep 2009
In order to enhance the security of the user, Microsoft has fitted Windows XP and Windows Vista with a feature called Security Center. As the name so adequately points out, the Security Center is somewhat of a main control panel from where the user canBy George Norman on 09 Sep 2009
The Microsoft developed Windows operating system comes with a feature that some find useful: thumbnail previews in Windows Explorer. Is said some find useful, because only a part of the Windows user base agrees with this statement. There areBy George Norman on 09 Sep 2009
As time moves forward, you will install more and more software applications on your Windows Vista-powered machine. There’s nothing wrong with finding new pieces of software, installing them on your machine and putting them to the test. The catch is that someBy George Norman on 09 Sep 2009
The Windows 7 operating system, from Microsoft’s point of view as well as from the point of view of software testers all over the world, is far better than its predecessor, mainly Windows Vista. The catch is that if you got used toBy George Norman on 09 Sep 2009
It doesn’t happen that often, but it happens from time to time: you are going about your business, working as usual, when the application (app for short) you needed to get things done crashes. It is a frustrating experienceBy George Norman on 08 Sep 2009
You are very well advised to create a system restore point every time you install a new piece of software or every time you want to significantly change the way the operating system works. If anything goes wrong you can then useBy George Norman on 08 Sep 2009
The development team at Microsoft had a simple goal in mind when they came up with the system restore feature in Windows: to allow the user to easily undo harmful changes made to the operating system by restoringBy George Norman on 08 Sep 2009
The Mozilla developed Firefox browser is already a pretty fast piece of software but there are some tricks that you can use and speed it up a bit more. This is precisely what I have decided toBy George Norman on 08 Sep 2009
When you have a hard time reading or watching an item in Firefox you will want to get a closer look by zooming in on said item; alternatively when you want to distance yourself from an item you will want to zoom out. Both tasks can beBy George Norman on 08 Sep 2009
Whenever you hover the mouse cursor over an item in the Windows 7 taskbar, the operating system will display a preview of the aforementioned item – these could be open software applications and open documents. The problem is