The subject of this article is the Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder. Now, some of you out there probably think that this is unimportant and that you do not need to know this. Well, coming from someone who has worked in tech support many times in his lifetime, it is important and you need to [...]
Leave a Comment April 18, 2010
This is a particularly interesting method of recovering your Administrator password if you should somehow change it and forget the new one. Since you may be forced to change it regularly by your employer or IT policies – in some cases people do this to keep their system secure at home – it is very [...]
Leave a Comment February 23, 2010
In the previous articles we discovered what upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 would take. It is not a procedure to be taken lightly. In Part I there were tools and an overview of the process which will be used. In Part II, we learned of backing up your Windows XP system for safety, [...]
Leave a Comment February 2, 2010
In Part II, some very important pre-upgrade tasks were presented. Backing up your data and your settings should not be overlooked as that data is probably the most important piece of your entire computer – without it, you would not need much of a computer. Those settings you have under Windows XP, however, may not [...]
Leave a Comment January 25, 2010
In Part I, we looked at what aspects of the upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 would be best looked into when making the switch. It is important to consider all that is written here before the upgrade process is started. There are several safe-guards and good practices which must be maintained to keep [...]
Leave a Comment January 20, 2010
If you were among the many that refused to move to Windows Vista, you are most likely running Windows XP – a favorite of many. Now that Windows 7 has been released, you might be thinking that you would like to upgrade and take advantage of the new features and faster overall speed. Well, like [...]
Leave a Comment January 18, 2010
This should be quite easy for anyone to understand, and Microsoft intended it to be that way. Safety and simplicity do not always work well, but BitLocker To Go in Windows 7 manages it rather well.
So, how does it work in Windows 7 now that the USB drive has BitLocker To Go installed? Well, let’s [...]
Leave a Comment January 15, 2010
We now know that USB drives are common and we also know that BitLocker To Go helps individuals and companies alike to secure their data on these devices. What we need to know now, though, is how to turn unencrypted data into encrypted data. Thus, the process of running BitLocker To Go is where to [...]
Leave a Comment January 11, 2010
In the Windows 7 Home and Windows 7 Home Premium, the Local Group Policy Editor (LGPE) is not available. However, we can still make adjustments similar to the same changes made with LGPE. The way to do this is by way of an application called regedit.exe. This allows you to directly edit the entries in [...]
Leave a Comment January 6, 2010
With the Windows 7 Local Group Policy Editor (LGPE), we have seen just how much you can alter your operating system (OS) in some interesting ways. In Part V there are even more changes to look into. The policies which are covered in this section apply to changes in areas of your system which can [...]
Leave a Comment January 1, 2010
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