Jun 12, 2010

In Windows 7 the screen goes dark when a UAC (User Account Control) window pops up.  Microsoft refers to this as the Secure Desktop.  However many people consider this to be rude an annoying behavior by their operating system.  We’re going to show you how to turn it off on Windows 7. In Windows 7, you can navigate to the UAC settings in the Control...

Jun 12, 2010

UAC (User Access Control) in Windows Vista or Windows 7 got you down?  It gets me down all the time too!  We’re going to show you how to make a shortcut that when launched will run a program as administrator and bypass the UAC prompt!  This is need to know stuff! A little background on UAC.  UAC stands for User Access Control is part of...

Jun 12, 2010

Windows 7 is very good at annoying me.  I’d bet you too!  In fact, we find Windows 7, second to Vista is probably the most annoying operating system on the planet!  In this tutorial we’re going to show you how to stop it from being so annoying by showing you how to disable one of it’s most annoying features – Newly Installed...

Jun 11, 2010

If you, like me are curious about what conhost.exe process is doing in Task Manager, and why it’s running, I’ve got good news!  We know and we’re going to explain it to you! What is conhost.exe? The conhost.exe process fixes a fundamental problem in the way previous versions of Microsoft Windows handled console windows.  In Windows Vista, this...

Jun 9, 2010

We discussed in How to Create a System Restore Point in Windows 7 how to actually create a system restore point.  In this article we’ll take you through the process of recovering a restore point and recovering your settings. Before starting a system restore, please close all applications.  Windows will automatically reboot during the restore process and...

Jun 9, 2010

Have you ever made changes, or wanted to make a change to your computer, but been unsure of what might happen if you do?  Worried that the change might break something, or even worse that you wouldn’t remember how to change it back? Windows 7 has a handy feature for getting you out of a hairy situation easily.  This feature is called System Restore. ...