I wish there were a few more settings options in the Windows 7 User Access Control (UAC) Settings dialog box. Some programs, especially utility programs, trigger the UAC warning every time I start them manually, but not if started as a Windows Service or started by the Windows scheduler or Windows startup routines. For example, [...]
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Reducing Frustration by Changing the Windows 7 User Access Control Settings
Filed Under: Computers, Operating Systems, Software, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Windows, Windows 7 Tagged With: access control, change, features removed from windows vista, frustration, microsoft windows, settings, start windows, user, user access control, user account control, window, windows, windows 7, windows nt, windows scheduler, windows service, windows startup, windows vista
Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – December 12, 2010
This week’s email newsletter articles are: External Hard Drive Not RecognizedSubscriber John Paul wrote about an intermittent problem getting his external hard drive to be recognized by his computer: Terry, I have been using a Toshiba external hard drive, 298 GB capacity for about 3 years now for backup. [...] Windows BlueScreens But Reboots Too [...]
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Changing Sounds in Windows 7 Themes
Windows 7 has some great built-in themes. Even better, Win7 has an easy way to download new themes directly from Microsoft’s web site. What’s a theme? It’s a pre-built combination of Windows Desktop background images, screensaver images, mouse cursor images, and sounds. The concept has been in Windows since back in the days of Windows [...]
Filed Under: Computers, Operating Systems, Sound, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Windows, Windows 7 Tagged With: annoying, annoying sounds, background images, change, change sound, microsoft windows, sounds, Theme, themes, window, windows 7, windows desktop, windows explorer, windows nt, windows registry, windows vista
Finding Program Data and Configuration Files in Windows 7
Windows 7 implemented a bunch of new security features to protect Windows and the programs that were installed on the computer. It also implemented a lot of improvements to the usability and user-friendliness of the security controls that were added to Windows Vista. One of the new controls is that programs are not permitted to [...]
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Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – December 5, 2010
This week’s email newsletter articles are: Unable to Print or Save from Adobe Reader XI have a question about Adobe X. I am running Vista (yuck, I know) 32 bit on my PC. I can view a document in the web browser but when I try to print or save, nothing happens. I have uninstalled, [...]
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Security Update Will Not Install
Security Update for Microsoft Word Viewer will not install Subscriber Travis MacClendon wrote with an interesting problem. Fortunately, the solution should be pretty easy… Hi Terry, I’ve been reading and lurking for a few months now and finally have a question perhaps worthy of attention: I get the Microsoft automatic security updates and have never [...]
Filed Under: Computers, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Office Suites, Software, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting Tagged With: automatic security updates, computing, microsoft, microsoft windows, microsoft word, microsoft word viewer, security center, security update, security updates, system software, will not install, windows update, windows vista, won't install, word viewer
Virtual Memory & When You Need More Real Computer Memory
Memory, Virtual Memory, and where can you get memory to add (hint: Crucial Technology). New subscriber Yogesh Anand wrote to ask: Hi, This is Yogesh Anand and I just have registered myself on your website and have a query if I could any solution for this, my query is :-Its about "virtual memory" We all [...]
Filed Under: Computers, Hard Drives, Memory, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting Tagged With: adobe reader, computer boot, computer data storage, computer memory, computers, hard drives, memory, memory tool, microsoft windows, operating system, page table, paging, virtual memory, when you, windows 7, windows nt, windows vista, windows xp
Reformatting a Laptop Hard Drive, part 2
In a recent article Reformatting a Notebook Computer’s Hard DriveI answered reader Ken’s question about reformatting his 4-year-old HP laptop computer. Unfortunately, Ken’s computer had not come with a Windows CD. So, he didn’t know how to get started. Briefly summarizing, I wrote that, if Ken wants to reinstall the Windows XP (I assumed it [...]
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