The more recent versions of Windows now have a Search option rather than a Find option but what it can do is still basically the same and so the techniques described in this article on how to find where Windows has saved the information you just changed will still work even if the option to [...]

Where do your programs save their data? If you don’t know the answer to that question then you can’t back up all your data without having to back up everything. Not all programs store their data in “My Documents” (eg. your email program). Many programs do allow you to change the location you keep your [...]

Regardless of which operating system you are using these days you should have at least two logins set up on i - one with administrator access and one without. You then use the login without administrator access for everyday use and only use the administrator account when you really need to do something that needs [...]

Two pieces of information that need to be entered when Windows is first installed are the ,b.Registered Owner and Registered Organisation. If you bought the computer with Windows already installed then this information (which gets used when you install other software) will not contain the correct values. In this article I tell you how to [...]

Not just Windows NT but also the more recent versions of the operating system (2000, XP, 2003 and Vista) are also covered by this article. If you have windows already installed on your computer then the chances are that you will have networking already installed but if you need to do a reinstall of your [...]

The old DOS operating system used a file system called FAT (file allocation table) which came in fat12, fat16 and fat32 variants. Windows NT introduced a new file system called NTFS (new technology file system) and that’s the preferred file system for the newer versions of that operating system such as Windows 2000, Windows XP, [...]

When you network computers together you will not be able to gain all the benefits of doing so unless you provide some access to each computer’s hard drive from the other computers. Windows XP provides a Shared Documents folder which provides this access to some extent. In this article we look at how you can [...]

If you allow others to use your computer and you don’t have a separate login for each of them then chances are that the next time you go to use your computer you will find that they have rearranged the way you have your desktop configured. In this article we look at how you can [...]