If you’ve been hoping for a large overhaul of the Windows GUI by the time Microsoft releases Windows 8, you might have been disappointed by the fact that the company has decided to keep things similar rather than delve into any major changes. However, Microsoft does plan to incorporate the same ribbons you’ve been seeing in Windows 7′s version of MSPaint within Windows Explorer. The change will supposedly make it easier to navigate through the contents of your hard drive and network and give you a new user experience. That sounds very cute, but let’s see if it was worthwhile for Microsoft to include ribbons in Windows 8 Explorer.
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Microsoft Includes Ribbons in Windows 8′s Explorer App
By | February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Ask a Windows Expert – Week 1
By | February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment
It’s time to answer all those questions that have been popping up on MTE’s inbox. Today, there are a lot of questions and, unfortunately, we don’t have the time to answer them all. All the Windows questions were excellent, and we’ve done our best to answer them in the most concise manner possible. Let’s go on, shall we?
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Five Top-Secret Windows 7 Features
By | February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment
With Microsoft’s new interface adjustments in the Windows franchise, the company put a lot of features into Windows 7 that it might have forgotten to mention. After having a really close look at the infrastructure of the operating system, I’ve noticed a couple of things that might startle you a bit about the operating system, including features that make you wonder where they’ve been your whole life. While you might know some of them, I doubt you knew them all, so let’s get started and discover together what Windows 7 had in store for you but wasn’t in a hurry to let you know about.
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How to Recover Your Windows Product Key
By | February 3, 2012 | 1 Comment
Losing your product key is something that happens to the best of us, especially when you’re as accident-prone as I am and misplace the box your Windows CD came in. Many people think about calling Microsoft tech support to resolve this issue, only to realize that they’re hitting a brick wall and wasting time. Instead of ruffling through tons of different CD/DVD cases you’ve kept over the years, you might decide to purchase a new product key or an entirely new license of Windows. Don’t make that mistake and keep that debit card in your wallet! You can use the registry to fetch the product key for your particular Windows license only if you use an older version of Windows, but Vista/7 need another procedure.
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Adding Spell Check to Windows Applications Using TinySpell
By | January 30, 2012 | 1 Comment
It turns out that a large amount of people don’t even know how to spell the word “philosophy“. Perhaps you recognize you’re one of those people and think you could use a spell checker in every Windows application you use. Even if you are a strong speller, you can’t discount the fact that you might spell one or two words wrong in one thousand, especially if you have a lousy keyboard with half-dead batteries like mine. I think everyone can make use of some red lines under every word they hiccup on with their spelling. You certainly wouldn’t like to submit a legal invoice with spelling errors on it, would you?
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Keep Focused: An All-In-One Time Management App [Windows]
By | January 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment
You only have 168 hours in a week. How you manage your days really makes the difference in how much you get done. I know people who think just because they are physically at work that they are working hard at their job (Insert buzzer noise here). Wrong answer. You need to be able to fit all of your tasks in AND complete them. Keep Focused is a small application that lets you manage your tasks easily, one at a time.
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What Happens to Windows 7 After Changing Your Motherboard
By | January 27, 2012 | 10 Comments
I’ve been hearing the same question again and again lately from people who are going to replace their motherboards: What’s going to happen to my Windows 7 installation? And why not worry? Microsoft certainly didn’t do a good job of preventing Windows XP from getting screwed up when you replaced the motherboard of a system running the OS. I figured that, instead of answering the question 1000 times, I’ll answer it once right here. The truth is that the result normally depends on what type of Windows installation you have; namely, whether you have an OEM or retail version.
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Setup A Free FTP Server On Your Home Computer (Complete Step by Step Guide)
By | January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment
If you use the Internet frequently, you must have come across some sites which offer uploading and downloading of files on their own servers. I am not talking about file sharing sites that offer to upload and download files through HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) but the sites that use a special protocol called FTP (File Transfer Protocol). The File Transfer Protocol is specially designed for the process of transferring files from one computer to another over the Internet. This protocol makes it easier to transfer multiple and large files without interruptions and also supports download and upload resuming when possible.
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Things About Windows 7′s Calculator You Probably Didn’t Know
By | January 23, 2012 | 3 Comments
I love Windows 7′s calculator. In fact, there’s even a calculator button on my keyboard for quick access. Still, it wasn’t until today that I just discovered that there are more functions in this nifty little program than were present in previous versions of Windows. If you explore the program a little, you’ll easily discover these things as well. Microsoft seems to sympathize a lot with people getting ready to get a mortgage and those who are on the road, judging by the new features it added in Windows 7′s calculator app. Shortly, you begin to appreciate the calculator more than you did before you knew about its extensions.
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Windows 8 Might Block Linux From Loading
By | January 20, 2012 | 27 Comments
Back in October 2011, the Free Software Foundation speculated on the possibility that Microsoft might be trying to block out other operating systems from loading within a computer, using a new concept known as the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). Microsoft showed it off a couple of months back, booting up Windows 8 in eight seconds. Linux users: Should you be concerned?
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