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Remember the time you spent half a day formatting, partitioning and installing a fresh copy of the Windows-based operating system on your computer? It took a long time, but then you had everything just the way you wanted and the OS never ran better

How fast your computer works is directly related to two factors: hardware and software. The physical limitations on your hardware mean that your computer is only as fast as the hardware components it is made of. As such

Back in the day, if you wanted to set up a local network (at home, in your dorm room, or at work), you had to get a ton of networking cables and spread them all around that location. Luckily enough technology has moved on since then and now you can do away with all those annoying cables and just set up a wireless

The Microsoft developed Windows operating system (OS) handles new data in a manner that is not exactly friendly to your hard disk drive – new data is stored wherever the OS finds a bit of free space. This causes the

There will be times when something will go wrong and your computer will not boot up properly and you will be unable to access any of the data you have stored on it. Nor will you be able to perform any of the regular problem fixing solutions, and this is where a boot disk comes in

For the computer user that is concerned about keeping his data private and protected from prying eyes, it would be a good idea to conceal folders and their content from other computer users – for example when more than one person uses the same PC. A simple means of

From a visual, not a functional point of view, there are two types of files you will interact with while using the Microsoft developed Microsoft operating system. First there are the visible folders, which you can easily notice in Windows Explorer or

After you partition and format your computer’s hard disk drive, you will undoubtedly proceed to installing the Microsoft developed Windows operating system on your machine. That is the first piece of software in a long list of software applications you will undoubtedly install over time. Some

One of the most basic tasks you can perform in Windows is cut, copy and paste. This task refers to the fact that you can make a copy of a file/folder (copy it and then paste it in different location) or you can move a

The need to boot your computer in Safe Mode does not come that often, but it does come. Here are just a few situations when you will want to restart your computer in Safe Mode: you want to remove a program but the

Partitioning a HDD means that you take one large physical hard drive and break it up into several smaller logical hard drives – for example you take a 1TB HDD and set up one 50GB partition for the Windows operating system, and a secondary 950GB partition where you can store all your other data. You can of course set up as

Taking a screenshot is the process of capturing the image displayed on your computer’s monitor. Two reasons why you would like to take a screenshot jump to mind. You want to

In the case of the Microsoft developed Windows operating system (OS), there are certain files that you can easily access and other files that you will rarely if ever notice. The Windows OS hides certain files by default and as such you will not get to see them in Windows Explorer or My Computer

Formatting a hard drive is the process of deleting all the data stored on said hard drive for one of two reasons: you want to get rid of everything that is stored on that disk, or you want to install a fresh copy of your Windows operating system and you want to do it on a freshly formatted disk. It should be noted that when you

When you hit the “Delete” button, the data you have stored on your computer is never really lost, even if you are lead to believe that it has been. Not completely lost, anyway. The space it occupied on the hard disk drive is cleared up so that other data can be overwritten on it; even after this

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