Tag: Customization
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 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 [...]
How To Make Windows 7 Look and Act Like Windows XP
A number of people have told me they are interested in giving Windows XP the boot, but at the same time, they are afraid of letting go of some of Windows XP’s familiarity. This is understandable, you have been using the same operating system for almost 10 years now and to jump into a modern [...]
How to Change Screen Resolution in Windows
Depending on what type of graphics solution you have installed in your computer, you are able to adjust the look of your display settings or what is called your screen resolution. You can adjust it so you can have more space on your screen for multiple windows, or to make things bigger on screen for [...]
How to Set the Clock in Windows 7 to Military Time (Quick Tip)
Depending on your region, work environment or personal preference you might want to setup Windows to display the clock in military time, which uses the 24 hour method for counting the hours on the clock. Normally, you count using 12, 1, 2, 3, in military time those numbers would be 12, 13, 14, 15. Lets [...]
How to Enable Missing Games in Windows 7 (Quick Tip)
If you are running running premium business editions of Windows 7 such as Windows 7 Professional or Enterprise, you might be missing the standard collection of games such as Solitaire and FreeCell that come bundled with other editions of Windows 7. There is no specific reasoning why these games are not available by default, but [...]
How to Customize Wallpaper Themes in Windows 7
If you want to make Windows a bit more personal, you can customize and change wallpaper in Windows 7 themes in order to change how Windows 7 looks and give it a personal touch. Themes are one of the great aesthetic features of Windows 7. Microsoft provides a website just for downloading new themes and [...]
How to Set Default Programs and Use Open With and Always Open With Settings
When you install Windows 7 or get a new PC with Windows 7 installed, by default, there are programs setup to do certain things. Whether it’s editing text, viewing images, listening to music or some other common task Windows has a default program to get you going. The programs that come set as the default [...]
How to Set Up a Signature in Outlook (Quick Tip)
A signature is a distinctive way of signing your name and an email signature can be a distinctive way of ending your emails witht he information the recipient needs to get in touch with you. In this article, we are going to be setting up an email signature in Microsoft Outlook 2010. First, open Microsoft [...]
