How to Organize Your Programs in the Windows 7 Taskbar

Would you like to keep your programs neat and orderly in your Windows 7 taskbar? Lets look at an easy way to make your taskbar simpler and more aesthetic all at the same time. The Windows 7 taskbar makes it easy to have quick access to your favorite programs. First youll need a folder to keep your shortcuts and applications that you wont delete. Now, in the folder, create a new text document or other file....

September 9, 2010 · 3 min · 449 words · Mary Underwood

Convert Word Documents to ePub Format for Your eReader or iBooks

Have you ever wanted to create an ePub document? Once you’ve download Aspose.Words, install it as normal. confirm to exit Word before you begin the installation. In the Save As window, click Save as key in and select Aspose.Words ePub from the list.

September 8, 2010 · 1 min · 43 words · Jeremiah Garcia

How to Clean Up Your Messy Internet Explorer Context Menu

Quick Links Is your Internet Explorer context menu completely out of control? Is it so long that it actually runs off the screen? Giant Context Menus! And now you could start deleting all the items that you dont use. Much better, though still not great. Hopefully Internet Explorer 9 will make the menu system simpler.

September 8, 2010 · 1 min · 55 words · Emily Jackson

How to Delete a Windows Live Writer Blog Theme and Use the Default View Instead

Youll see the default view.

September 8, 2010 · 1 min · 5 words · Evan Willis

Stupid Geek Tricks: How to Switch Windows 7 to the XP Style Alt-Tab Switcher

What we’ll do is use a registry hack courtesy of reader Benjamin. What we do recommend, however, is taking a look at theawesome VistaSwitcher Alt-Tab replacement system. Once you’ve done so, the Alt-Tab prompt should immediately change to the XP style. Your change won’t take effect until you do. To remove, use the Windows7AltTab.reg file, and then drop off and back in. Download XPStyle Alt-Tab Registry Hack from howtogeek.com

September 8, 2010 · 1 min · 69 words · Kevin Tucker

Take Control of a Netbook or Laptop Touchpad while Typing

Here we take a look at a few ways to alleviate this problem. Touchpad Pal One free app that will help you out is Touchpad Pal (link below). Just download and install it following the defaults in the wizard. We tested this out on an HP-Mini 311 Netbook which has an Alps touchpad. TouchpadPal lives in your Taskbar and runs quietly in the background when needed. It pops up a notification balloon letting you know it blocked a touchpad click....

September 8, 2010 · 2 min · 216 words · Anna Williams

Convert a PowerPoint 2010 Presentation to Video

Today we take a look at converting presentations to video. After you’ve created your Presentation hit File to access Backstage view. Then select Save & Send. Now under the File Types section select Create a Video. Select a location to save the video. Now you’re able to watch the video of your presentation in your favorite .wmv compatible video player. PowerPoint 2010 has added a lot of new features likeadding transitions to slideshows, andanimating text and objects....

September 7, 2010 · 1 min · 95 words · William Cooke

How to Change the Priority of Wired/Wireless Network Cards in Windows

Ever wonder how Windows chooses which one to use? Here’s how to see the default priority—and how to change it if you want. Still, if you want to tweak it to work differently, this is how you would do it. Now go for the Internet Protocol Version 4 item in the list, and poke the Properties button. Now smack the Advanced button at the bottom of this window…. getting tired of clicking yet?...

September 7, 2010 · 1 min · 100 words · Gregory Henson

How to Save Time by Automating Tedious Tasks with AutoHotkey

Once the record has been deleted, everything slides up as if the row was never there. To accomplish this, well use theSleep function, which takes only one argumentthe delay in milliseconds. Just enough time for me to record the video and write this article!

September 7, 2010 · 1 min · 44 words · Randy Shepard

Manage Your iPod with MediaMonkey as an Alternative to iTunes for Windows

Today we look at using MediaMonkey Standard as an alternative for managing your iPod and audio collection. Install & Setup MediaMonkey Installation is straight-forward following the install wizard. When selecting the file bang out associations, confirm to check iTunes file types. After installation MediaMonkey starts, youre presented with a welcome message and the opportunity to purchase the Gold version. Click OK to the message and we can start getting things setup....

September 7, 2010 · 2 min · 259 words · Lori Ortiz

Make Windows 7 Start Menu Search Find Your Applications Faster

It tends to get really slow, but here’s how to fix it. Once it’s all done, however, your Start Menu search should be a bit faster.

September 6, 2010 · 1 min · 26 words · Roy Pierce

Create a Shortcut to Troubleshoot Windows 7 Using System Maintenance

Rather than going through several menus to access it, we’ll create a shortcut to it. If you want easier access to it, we’ll show you how to create a shortcut to it. Now pop in in the following path in the location field. Here we are using Troubleshoot System Maintenance. Now we have the new shortcut icon on the desktop. Luckily on our system nothing was needed to be changed or updated....

September 3, 2010 · 1 min · 106 words · Joe Brown

Create an eBook or PDF from Wikipedia Articles for Offline Reading

Here’s how to turn Wikipedia articles into a PDF for offline reading or print as a paper book. Click Download as PDF to have Wikipedia automatically generate a PDF copy of this article. Here’s our PDF in Adobe Reader inside our surfing app. To do this, click Create a book under Print/export on the left sidebar in Wikipedia. This will pop crack open the Book creator page; click Start book creator to get started....

September 3, 2010 · 1 min · 187 words · Matthew Carey