Balloon tips are the little popups that come from your system tray area near the clock in your start menu.  Sometimes these popups can be quite anoying as they can cover up something that you were looking at,  and when you click on the x to close down the popup another 2 or 3 [...]

  You can now add a shortcut to the recycle bin within mycomputer.  Open up your registry by click on the start menu > run and type in  regedit  and press enter.  Now browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace right click in the pane and now right click the mouse and select new > Key and name it [...]

Have you ever wondered how to ping folders to the task bar in windows 7?  By default folders will only get added to explorer which is not what we want.  To get around this browse to the folder you want to put in your task bar,  right click on the folder and select copy then [...]

  If your computer is frequently crashing more often than not it is being caused by some sort of a driver.  If you need to find out exactly what drivers are installed on your system you can do, you can see driver versions and driver dates.  Having access to this list can be very helpful [...]

have you ever wanted to recover individual files from system restore in windows 7 before?  Well now you can without having to roll back your whole system to do so.  Open windows explorer and right click on the folder that the file was in that you want to recover,  now right click on the folder [...]

If you have to reboot your pc regually entering a password every time to log on can become quite anoying.  You can setup an auto logon by clicking start > run and type in  control userpasswords2  and hit enter. In the next screen untick the option "Users must enter a password to use this computer"

When you open more than one folder in windows explorer,  windows 7 will make use of existing processes.  Although this saves on resources it means if one folder crashes the rest will all crash as well.  You can open a new explorer window to use a new process which will get around this problem.  You [...]

Sometimes when we install certain programs they put an entry in to our scheduled tasks lists and these tasks can be executed when you login / out or at any scheduled time.  Most of these scheduled tasks are not really needed as they are only there to see if there is an update for a [...]

  Do you find the gadget sidebard anoying or simply dont use it?  Well you can turn it off and save some system resources.  To turn it off click on the start menu and select the control panel then select appearance and personalization then windows sidebar properties,  Now untick the option "Start sidebar when windows [...]

In windows xp, vista and 7 it is possible to prioritise which applications have more of a priority to use system resources over other tasks.  To do this start your program "in this example we will use microsoft excel" then launch the windows task manager by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc / Del  or [...]