Messenger Reviver 2: Install Windows Live Messenger in Windows 8 / 8.1

In its prime time, the Messenger was one of the top instant messaging software and indeed a rage among youngsters as well as professionals. However it was replaced by its successor Windows Live Messenger. Now, after Windows Live Messenger’s recent closure, many […]

BetterDesktopTools: Expose & Spaces like features for Windows

Managing multiple windows can be a tedious task when multitasking. This is a usual problem faced by web designers, PCB designers, copywriters, app managers and even common household users. Anyhow, there is an excellent solution to this problem in the […]

WiFi Profile Manager: View Preferred Wireless Network Profiles in Windows 8/10

In the previous versions of Windows you could see the list of wireless networks you had previously connected to, change the order in which these Preferred Networks connected when more than one of them were available, as well as add […]

Don’t own Microsoft Office but want to use it for free? Try Office Web Apps!

We’ve previously posted about the new features in Microsoft Office Web Apps, but the other day on Twitter, a friend mentioned something that really sunk in that I thought would be worth sharing. What if you don’t own a copy […]

Mark the New Year with a printed Tweet Balloon from HP!

With 2012 a few days away, everyone will be getting ready to celebrate with family and friends and start their yearly ritual of New Years resolutions. Every year you kind find all sorts of new things to set the New […]

Windows Registry Editor Tips & Features

Everywhere you turn you find someone telling everyone to stay clear of the Registry. While I agree with this to an extent, I have come to realize that a lot of what we do involves the Registry whether we know […]

Is the traditional PC really being killed off?

Yesterday, I read an article claiming Apple is killing off the traditional desktop and after reading the article and the comments that followed, I decided I would throw in my two cents.   The title of the article was, Apple […]

Free Windows Metro Style Template for Visual Basic users

While working on an update to an app for Windows 8, I decided to put together the following template for users to use who may still be using VB.Net 2010. As someone who is still learning how to use the […]

Tips for email users: Secure and protect your email account

Daily you hear about companies being hacked and users personal information such as email addresses being stolen. For most users, this means nothing but to others it means a sense of no security. These hackers then post this information for […]

Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2 now available.

Microsoft has released it’s next Platform Preview for Internet Explorer 10 today.

Windows Phone OS 7.1 Mango now available for Windows Phone Developers

News around tech sites have been pouring in this morning that it was rumored that Mango would be released to developers possibly Thursday (June 30th), but without warning from Microsoft, Mango has been released today to developers! To get access […]

10 Useful Facebook, Add-ons, Tricks, Tips

On my quest to find the most useful things for Facebook, I came across these Facebook tips, tricks and add-ons, that might come in handy for the daily Facebook user. Facebook Tricks, Tips, Add-ons Facebook Colour Changer for Firefox users […]

Hotmail updated with new modern web app features and keyboard shortcuts

Watching how users have been using other mail clients like Outlook and picking from the favorite features users have liked in Outlook, Hotmail 2011 has now been updated with some of these features to work just how users use them […]

Windows Password Recovery : Recover lost, forgotten Windows password

Lately, it seems the more Windows computers I work on, the more users have forgotten their password, or they didn’t tell me the password, and when I can’t reach them I am stuck with no option to get into the […]

Windows security hole gives anyone access to computer without logging into User Account

Every week users are presented with new security bulletins for Windows 7, reminded of attacks via the internet, downloaded malware and many more of the various attacks users use to access someones computer. What is rarely talked about and of […]

Change your Windows 7 Logon Screen the easy way, without resource hacks

Since the release of Windows 7 there have been many hacks\tweaks that have surfaced to customize all aspects of Windows 7 and the one I see popular are hacks\tweaks to customize the Logon Screen.

Difference between IE Tracking Protection and InPrivate Filtering

With the release of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft has introduced a new feature called Tracking Protection. With so many users used to using the InPrivate Filtering and Browsing Mode, users are now a bit confused asking if Tracking Protection replaces […]

Use Microsoft Office Word to directly publish your Blog posts to WordPress, etc.

While looking around Microsoft Word the other day I came across a nice feature that I hadn’t heard of and searching the internet, I didn’t find any useful information at all: Write your blog post in Word and post it […]

AutoPlay in Windows 10/8/7 – FAQ

The Windows AutoPlay feature in Windows is a nice feature for users when they insert media via CD\DVD, USB or Media Cards. While useful the AutoPlay is confusing to alot of users and Microsoft has put together a Help and […]

Microsoft lists most common automated Fix It solutions in one place

One of the best things in trouble shooting Windows problems has been the Microsoft Fix It Solutions.  Ever since we first announced its quiet launch way back in Nov 2008, or the time when the First MVP Fix It was […]