Archive for the 'Windows' Category

Stop Your Windows Password from Expiring!

November 16th, 2005

When you turn on your computer, does Windows sometimes force you to change your password?
You can stop this from ever happening again! Read on:
Note: You must be logged on to your computer with administrator privileges to do the following.

Click on the Start button.
Right click on My Computer
Select Manage.
Click Local Users and […]

Add Album Cover Art to Your Music Folders

November 11th, 2005

If you love music and computers, you probably have a lot of albums stored on your hard drive.
Here’s a cool tip that lets you show the album cover on the folder. The picture below shows some of the Tom Waits albums on my hard drive:

Windows XP has a feature that […]

Preventing Programs from Starting Automatically When You Start Up Your Computer

November 10th, 2005

Some programs automatically turn on an option during installation to open the program every time you turn on your computer. This annoying and arrogant feature can usually be disabled, sometimes by changing the Preferences within the program. If you can’t find this option within the program, you can usually prevent the program from […]

Two Cool Windows Shortcuts

September 3rd, 2005

We try to mention both of these shortcuts in most of our classes because everyone seems to love them!
Both shortcuts make use of the Windows key, the one between the left CTRL and left ALT keys on most keyboards. It looks like this:

Show the Desktop
The first one lets you get back to the Desktop […]