How to Change the Color of the Vista Start Menu & Taskbar

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Computers have become increasingly pervasive in everyday life. Many users customize their computers with wallpapers, icons, and cursors that reflect their visual tastes. Windows even includes a feature that allows you to change the appearance of their Aero interface, meaning things such as the toolb

How to Clean Install Vista Premium

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According to the official Windows Vista support website, there are three common situations in which you might want to perform a clean installation of any Vista operating system, including Vista Premium: to replace your current operating system, to install Vista Premium in a separate partition of yo

How to Use nLite to Slipstream a Windows XP Boot CD

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nLite is an application that creates modified Windows XP Boot CDs from originals. nLite can automate installation, customize Windows components and also slipstream updates into a Windows XP Boot CD. "Slipstreaming" is adding Windows Update into the Windows installer, so when you install Windows XP,

How to Turn on Wireless on an IBM Lenovo

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In order to connect to a wireless network and the Internet on an IBM Lenovo machine, you must first enable wireless networking via your computer's operating system. Allow about five minutes to enable your IBM Lenovo computer's wireless capabilities.

How ATM Machines Work

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The BasicsWith use of ATMs soaring and replacing the need to ever step foot inside a bank, it's easy to forget what complex machines they are. The processes that ATMs use to make your banking easy are intricate, but not difficult to understand. By understanding the connection between an...

How do I Install Genuine Fractals 4.0 on Mac OS 10.5?

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The Genuine Fractals software is a plug-in or add-on for the Adobe Photoshop software suite for creating and editing digital images. Genuine Fractals 4 is compatible with both Windows and Mac computers.

How Do I Know What Service Pack I Have on XP?

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Service Packs for the Windows XP operating system (of which there were a total of three) added functionality, stability and security upgrades. In some situations, programs require a certain Service Pack level in order to work properly, so it's often important to know what Service Pack is running on

How to Repair the Windows XP Boot Loader

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The Windows XP boot loader is called the Master Boot Record, or MBR. This is the file that controls the booting of the hard drive and makes it possible for the computer to load the operating system. If this file has been corrupted, you can repair it through the Recovery Console, contained on the XP

How to Configure a MikroTik Router

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MikroTik RouterOS is a Linux-based operating system that creates PC-based routers. You use a router to send packets from one network to another. Routers are the basis for networks and allow the Internet to function. You can install RouterOS on a PC, and it will turn the PC into a router with all the

Can You Setup Windows Search to Always Search a Specified Folder?

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If you want to setup Windows Search Companion to always default to a specific folder in its "Look in" field box, you may do so using a .vbs (visual basic) script.

Free Tools for Removing Temporary Internet Files in Windows XP

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Your computer often saves temporary files to your hard drive as you visit websites on the Internet. These files are used to help speed up the rate the Web pages load on your computer and offer you a history of your past browsing sessions. These files over time can build up and actually...

How to Print Custom Page Sizes with Vista

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Windows Vista provides numerous paper size settings in the Print menu. You can select from small sizes, for printing on index cards and labels, or you can select large paper sizes, for legal documents and posters. You can also enter a custom paper size for irregularly-shaped documents, images or car

Windows 98 Requirements

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Released more than 10 years ago, Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system's requirements are basic enough to work with any new personal computer today.

How to Remove "Battlefield 2142" From the Registry

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You must use the Windows registry editor to remove all active entries for "Battlefield 2142" from your Windows registry. Deleting the wrong entries from the registry can cause other software programs to stop working. It is crucial that you delete only the entries that belong solely to "Battlefield 2

ASP.NET 4 and ADO.NET 4 - From Murach!

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A full review of Murach's books covering the 4.0 versions of ASP.NET and ADO.NET, main supporting technologies for Visual Basic 2010. This combined review of two books covers what's good and bad about them as well as what's different.

How to Convert XP to XP Tablet

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Windows XP with Tablet Mode includes additional features for "tablet style" computers, such as recognition of onscreen stylus commands. Incorporate the features of Windows XP Tablet into your standard Windows XP installation disc by merging the two together with a relatively simple set of inclusions

How to Burn PS1 Backup for PS3

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The first-generation PlayStation (aka PSX1) played CD-based video game disks. You can burn a backup copy of a PS1 game disk using a computer and a disk copy program. There are a number of such programs available that are free to use or offer free trials. All the programs function in a similar fashio

How to Stop the 30 Second Choice at the Windows Startup

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The "30 Second Choice" at Windows start-up refers to the time you have to switch operating systems when booting a dual or multi-boot Windows installation. The user has 30 seconds to select which operating system to use before the default operating system loads. The default operating system is highli

How to Remove Remote Assistant

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The Remote Assistant on your Windows XP operating system is used to access your computer from a different computer through an Internet connection. Although you cannot delete the Remote Assistant from the XP operating system, you can disable it through the Control Panel. The Remote Assistant is part

How to Fix a Winlogon.exe Application Error

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A Winlogon.exe error most commonly appears when a virus or malware has infected the Winlogon.exe file on your computer. The Winlogon.exe process manages the user log-on and log-off information, and checks the authenticity of your operating system. If a virus or malware moves or modifies this file, y