What should I expect with file and print sharing if I buy a copy of W7/home? Is there any other way that W7/home limits networking compared to W7/Pro? --...

Now that W7 has been around for a while, can anyone name an application that needs to run in an XP VM? -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to...

I see that lots of current machines have a "hidden" partition with vendor-provided recovery tools, including files that will restore the user disk to factory...

Does a 32-bit application run on a 64 bit machine use any sort of a compatibility layer, not that this is a horrible thing. Has anyone benchmarked the...

I remap Ctrl an Caps Lock on the keyboard of every system I control. I've been using a utility distributed by PC Magazine in Windows NT4 days and it's worked...

I'm new to W/7 and am setting up my first machine witha large D partition for my user files. I see instructions for relocate "My Documents" to D: via...

Can a 32-bit java app use the 64-bit runtimes? I assume they can co-exist. -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is...

ISTM that I've heard of a laptop and an ext monitor set up as independent views on what I assume is a big virtual desktop. I've got a new laptop and my trying...

If I download the free VT kit from microsoft can I install and run my legal copy of w2k in it? -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress,...

Somehow, when my Win/7 PC did a requested reboot at the end of an unattended backup, the task bar is now on the top of the screen. Under older Windows, I...

I want to disable the touch-pad if a USB mouse is plugged in. Does anyone know if this is possible? I use a real mouse on my laptop if I possibly can. One...

What to do with software that consists if little more than .exe file? On all prior versions of Windows I've create c:\usr\local\bin and inserted it in the...

On the W/7 desktop, when I drag a panel part way across the screen it snaps open to fill the entire screen which is not what I want. What check box controls...

I have several utilities that are little more than a .exe file and I want to add shortcuts to them to Start-All Programs. When I make a shortcut and try to...

I prefer the "auto-hide" setting for the task bar. The task bar will behave properly for weeks and then for no apparent reason cease to hide. When I go to the...

I have a basic W7/home premium system and want to use file explorer to browse Documents and Settings for my user id. When I click on it I get "access is...

The desktop fonts & features have become less complex. The lines that make the characters appear to be one pixel thick. Check boxes disappear against the...

Has anyone come up with a hack to make W7 play a user-created bit of sound when the battery triggers the low-on-power event? By default, it's the same beep as...

After pointing to a specific file in File Explorer, what is the easiest way to get the file name and filesystem path into a text string that could, for...

Some time ago I was able to set W7 up to beep each time I pressed the CAPS-LOCK key, For some reason it's gone way and I can't find the setting in Control...