Manually Removing Startup Programs from Windows XP

Removing startup programs from Windows XP - the manual method to speed the start up   Manually removing Windows startup programs is relatively easy and straight-forward and helps speed up the start up. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial showing you how to do it. 1. Once your computer’s desktop has loaded, click on the start button and then the “Run” button on the right side of the menu.   2. After you have clicked on...

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Installing MS Office 2007 from a CD/DVD

We will assume that you will be installing Microsoft Office 2007 from the CD/DVD drive. This guide will apply to all versions of Microsoft Office 2007 as there is no noticeable difference when installing different versions of Microsoft Office 2007. The only expected difference is the applications that you can install and this is dependent on the version of Microsoft Office 2007 you have purchased.  ...

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Diffferent Types of Computer Threats

Threats to your computer system, data, and identity come in many different forms, a few of the most common are listed as follows: Viruses: A virus is a self-replicating program that is designed to damage or degrade the performance of a computer. A virus is replicated by being copied or by initiating its copying to another program, computer boot sector or document. Viruses can be classified into four different categories as follows: File Infector...

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Basic Hardware Setup for a Wireless Home Network

Wireless networking offers tangible benefits over traditional wired networking. We find wireless connectivity in all the devices that we use today including, cellphones, gaming systems and computers. The first step is to choose a good Wireless Router   Depending on your usage and considering the connectivity factor you can choose a router. There are many brands and different series of routers which come with different wireless ranges. Few popular router manufacturers are Cisco, Dlink, Linksys and Belkin...

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Gmail: Changing Default font size while composing a mail

Here's what you can do to change the default Font in Gmail while composing a mail: 1. Go to "Settings" at the top of your Gmail page...

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Ready Boost in Windows 7 to speed up performance

Windows ReadyBoost allows you to add a non-volatile USB 2.0 flash memory drive to improve memory performance on systems that have less than 1GB of memory. This is is a great feature to use if you have a computer in which a RAM upgrade is difficult or not feasible. Windows 7 ReadyBoost is very easy to use. Once you connect a USB flash drive to your computer, Windows 7 checks to see if the performance is fast enough to work with Windows ReadyBoost....

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How to back up your files to an external hard disk drive

To back up your files to an external hard disk drive: We often have a question about how often the data should be backed up.   Generally, people who use their computers occasionally (5 hours/week or less) should be backing up their data on at least a weekly basis. If you use your computer more frequently however, (more than 10 hours/week), doing it daily is probably a good idea. Another variable is the type of data you store on your computer....

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