Author Archive: Andre
How to create Charts using Microsoft Excel
Charts help people process data, and Microsoft Excel can build a variety of charts with your data. Bar charts, area, column, and pie charts commonly get used to represent data visually. Each chart type has its own set of options and variations and can exist as an embedded object in the spreadsheet with your data [...]
How to use the new Windows Live Skydrive
Microsoft announced an update to Skydrive, the company’s cloud storage service that lets you store 25GB of documents, photos and even music for free. Although similar to other cloud storage services such as Dropbox and Apple’s new iCloud, Skydrive delivers much more storage for free. I’ve been using Skydrive for quite a while now and it has gradually [...]
How To Backup Your Software
Owning a computer means you probably invested in commercial programs from major vendors. Just like backing up your computer and its operating system, it’s also important to backup your software. Now, let me clarify something: I am not referring to backing up installed programs in Windows, but the actual install files or installation discs. It is [...]
How to Troubleshoot Sound Problems in Windows
Sound is an important part of using your PC. We use our notebooks to listen to music, listen to the audio in a movie, while we chat with friends and to listen to online radio and video. Sound also indicates various events that take place in Windows, alerting you to a completed download, computer startup, [...]
How to Install Microsoft Office 2010 SP1
Microsoft has released the first Service Pack maintenance update for its Office productivity suite, Office 2010. Service Pack 1 contains cumulative and public updates for all Office 2010 suites and individual applications including Project 2010, Visio 2010, SharePoint 2010, Office 2010 servers, Office Web Apps, Search Server 2010, SharePoint 2010 Products and FAST Search Server [...]
How to Change the Default Start Menu Power Options (Quick Tip)
These days, shutting down your computer is a rarity. If you want to save power, but keep your computer ready to turn on, hibernation is an excellent option. I’ll show you how to change power options and why you might want to change the default Start Menu Power options. I hibernate my laptop which is [...]
How to Make Internet Explorer Open Multiple Tabs At Launch
If you like to start your day by looking at more than one webpage, you can set up Internet Explorer to open several pages when you launch your browser. I use this tip to open Hotmail (email), Google News (news) and Facebook (social networking) each morning with one click. Years ago, opening a single home page [...]
How to Change Font Size in Windows 7 (Quick Tip)
If you would like to make text larger or smaller on-screen for better visibility or because of a visual impairment, this article will show you how to change font size in Windows. Since the introduction Windows Vista, Microsoft has made great improvements to Windows 7’s DPI (Dots Per Inch which refers to the screens resolutions) [...]
How to Create a Password Reset Disk in Windows 7
Whenever you setup a new user account on your computer it is also a good time to ensure that you also create a password reset disk in case you have a sudden case of amnesia and forget your Windows password. This tip is especially useful for complex passwords that might not be easily remembered. in this article we’ll show [...]
How to Turn off Windows Aero: To Speed Up Windows 7
If your computer is not performing as fast as it should be, you can do some quick fixes to speed things up a bit. One of them is turning off the Windows Aero theme. Introduced in Windows Vista, this new experience focused on providing an elegant user experience for the Windows environment. Most modern systems [...]
