Taskbar by default is displayed at the bottom of desktop screen. In Windows 7 we can move the taskbar to the top or right or left of the screen for our convenience. It can be done through Taskbar and Start menu properties window. Following are the steps to move Taskbar to bottom or right or [...]
If you are annoyed with the frequent prompts for installing Firefox updates then you can disable this feature by doing the following in Firefox browser. In Firefox window click on Tools button in the menu bar. Select Options from the menu. (Firefox options can also be opened from Run window by executing the command Firefox [...]
There seems to be lots of third party tools (both freeware and non-freeware) available to automatically shut down a computer. But we really do not need them as Windows OS provides built-in utility for this task. This article explains you how to do this in simple steps. (The below steps are explained for Windows XP. [...]
Hibernate feature allows us to save the current session when we are going to switch off the computer. We can start with the same state of the session when we switch on the computer again. On Windows XP you can hibernate a computer by clicking on the shutdown menu and then selecting ‘hibernate‘ option from [...]
In default configuration Windows XP taskbar is of the size shown in the below image. When we open multiple windows the taskbar gets filled with the icons of the running applications and sometimes it would be difficult to identify which icon points to which application. For such situations we can increase the size of the [...]
Having Show desktop icon in the quick launch on the taskbar helps a lot to switch to the desktop screen easily. If the quick launch on your taskbar does not have show desktop icon then you can add it as per the below steps. The icons in the quick launch are nothing but shortcuts to [...]
If you use Windows graphical user interface extensively then this could be a useful tip to you. If you always deal with different windows in your Windows application you might be pressing OK, Cancel or Apply buttons lot of times. You have to move mouse cursor close to the buttons in these windows. You can [...]
Normally when we press power button the computer gets shut down. We can change this default behavior and configure the computer to hibernate or standby whenever one presses the power button. This can be done as per the following steps. Open Control Panel from Start Menu If the items are displayed in category mode, click [...]
Termnial Services service enables users to connect to the computer remotely from some other PC. If this service is not running you can not set up remote desktop connection and you can’t even configure RDP settings in My computer properties. You can start the service from Service management console. Starting Terminal Services may fail and [...]
If you open My computer properties(which is also called System Properties), you can see various tabs on the top where you can configure different settings of your computer. One of the tabs is named ‘Remote’ where you can configure if users can do remote desktop connection (RDP) to this computer or not. We can also [...]
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