Virtual hard drives, or disks, are fake Windows 7 or 8 hard disks. With the VHD options, you can add a small, virtual hard disk to store specific software packages and files. You can create virtual hard disks in the .VHD format wh...
The Windows Vista Quick Launch bar, which can also be added to Windows 7, gives you a tool for quickly launching software. What it lacks are options to group and organize those shortcuts, and so the Quick Launch bar can get a litt...
The foremost browsers are Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari on the Mac OS X. Whilst they each have their own browser-specific keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys), you will find that the share a number of hotkeys...
When you switch to lower resolutions, Windows moves your desktop icons around. Then you might have to move and reorganise your desktop shortcut icons. However, with suitable software you can save and restore the icon layouts on Wi...
The Windows Task Manager is one of the more essential system tools which shows you what software is running, and with it you can close software even if it has frozen (or crashed). The Task Manager does not have a shortcut on the S...
The Disk Cleanup utility is one of the system tools included with Windows. To open the utility click the Start menu, select All Programs, Accessories and System Tool folders. However, with a registry tweak you can add a Disk Clean...
Those who usually enter a password to log in to Windows XP/Vista, 7 and 8 can bypass the log on (aka automatically login). Then nobody must enter a password to log in to your user account. To remove the Windows XP/Vista/7 and 8 lo...
Some browsers, such as Firefox, include bookmark tag options. Then you can find a bookmark by entering its tag. However, the Google Chrome browser doesn’t have any comparable tagging options. Nevertheless, you can still tag your G...
If you have an Excel spreadsheet with lots of data it might take a while to manually check through it for duplicated values. One way that you can quickly find duplicated cell values is with the Conditional Formatting option. When ...
Excel 2010/2013 has plenty of formatting options for spreadsheets. Among them are Excel conditional formatting options with which you can format spreadsheet cells based on their numerical values. You can add icons, based on a cond...
As you’ve probably spotted, there’s text under the Windows desktop shortcut icons. Whilst you can rename the shortcut icons, Windows doesn’t include an option that removes shortcut text. However, you can still re...
Those who often search for a group of files, or specific software packages, with the same keywords should save their searches. Then you can open saved searches instead of entering the keywords. You can save searches with Windows E...
When it comes to designing holiday cards, some might overlook MS Word 2010/2013. Desktop publishing software packages usually have the most extensive options for cards. However, you can also set up holiday cards with MS Word 2010/...
Flowcharts are planning tools that represent an algorithm or process. They are commonly used by software developers, and system analysts to design systems. MS Word 2010/2013 has a good variety of flowchart options. To set up a flo...
The Windows Update shortcut is on the Windows 7 Start menu. You can click on that shortcut to check for Windows 7 updates. However, the shortcut cannot be pinned to the taskbar unless you edit its target properties. First, you sho...
