In Windows XP, you will get warned by a little balloon popup when your available disk space on a particular drive gets low. Some people may be well aware of this and don’t need to be continually bothered about it. Here’s how to fix it. Click on Start | Run, type Regedit, and click on [...]

Submitted by Force Flow: When you want to take a few screenshots from a movie clip in Windows Media Player, press Print+Screen, paste it in an image editing program, and you get a black screen. The reason for this is due to Hardware Acceleration being enabled. But you can turn this feature off. In Windows [...]

Many Internet Explorer users have opened their browser only to find that the size of the window is pretty strange, forcing you to resize it or maximize it before you can use it. Well, you can fix it. To control the size of primary and secondary IE windows, start by closing all IE windows. Then [...]

In order to search through a hard drive faster, XP keeps a record of all files on the hard drive. It sounds useful, but if you use Windows search tool infrequently, the indexing service just constantly runs in the background without being taken advantage of and used. Indexing can slow down actions as simple as [...]

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is used to transfer large files all the time. But, what if you need to send a large file to a friend or family member? Not all of us have web servers we can use as a “staging area”. But, that doesn’t mean FTP cannot be used to connect right up [...]

Many of us who use Microsoft Outlook as our email client pay very little attention to our Sent Items folder. That folder stores all emails you ever send. The size of the folder can get quite huge and, most of the time, you have no reason to hang onto the older messages. Well, you can [...]

For those of you who use Outlook as your email client, here are a few useful shortcuts: Ctrl-Shift-O: Switch to out-box. Ctrl-Enter: Send current message. Ctrl-R: Reply to a message. Ctrl-Shift-R: Reply All to a message. Ctrl-Shift-A: Create a new appointment. Ctrl-Shift-M: Create a new message. Ctrl-1: Switch to Mail. Ctrl-2: Switch to Calendar. Ctrl-3: [...]

If your PC does not display file extensions, open My Computer and open the View menu (Windows 98) or the Tools menu (Windows Me/XP). Select Folder Options and click the View tab. In the Advanced Settings list, clear the Hide File Extensions For Known File Types checkbox and click Apply. To make this change effective [...]

We all know that Microsoft has a reputation when it comes to security of its products. I’m sure some of that reputaiton is unearned and due to rumor and inexperienced users spreading rumors. Play the whisper game as a child and you know how it can work. But, still, many security issues plague Microsoft software, [...]

WinXP Balloon tips can be irritating. They pop up above the Notification area with update notices, Microsoft Passport account solicitations, reports on system status, and other reminders that users typically don’t need. But to get rid of these tips, you have to enter the Registry (click Start, Run, and enter “regedit”). In the left pane [...]