How to Turn Off the Control Panel in Windows 7

Monday, October 4th, 2010 103 views

If you share your computer with other users, friends or family members, there are a lot of ways to prevent them from changing your computer options. You might want to read these articles on how to lock your computer, prevent users from changing the color scheme and how to hide folders from users. Another trick [...]

How to Prevent Users from Changing Themes in Windows 7

Monday, October 4th, 2010 107 views

If you share your computer with other people and you are the owner of the PC, you know how annoying is when other users change your computer settings such as your Windows 7 theme, for example! Now, if you own Windows 7  Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions you are lucky because a special setting is [...]

Windows Media Player 12 keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7

Monday, October 4th, 2010 92 views

Windows 7 features has incredibly improved Windows Media Player 12 featuring interesting options and changing the way users play and manage their digital media content (like music and videos).  The all new Windows Media Player 12 take full advantage of key Windows 7 features such as the new Windows Taskbar, HomeGroup and Jump Lists.  The [...]

How to Remove and Install Windows Media Player 12 in Windows 7

Monday, October 4th, 2010 66 views

Windows Media Player 12 is the default media player in Windows 7. Basically, it comes with the operating system and you have no choice but use it, like it or not. You can not even decide to uninstall and remove it since there is no uninstall link in the Programs and Features window. What follows [...]

Windows 7 Sticky Notes Shortcuts

Monday, October 4th, 2010 54 views

Some time ago I posted a couple of articles on how to create sticky notes and how to customize sticky notes on Windows 7.  Today I am going to write about some nice shortcuts which let you add some spicy to your notes such as Bold text, bulleted list etc. If you do not like [...]

How to turn off Action Center notifications in Windows 7

Monday, October 4th, 2010 70 views

Windows 7 Action Center is a special window located under the Control Panel, where the system gives the user a lot of useful information regarding security, problems, troubleshootings, maintenance etc. When a message gets a  “Normal Priority” status, it is  queued in the Action Center itself. But when a message gets a ” Important Priority” [...]

Understanding FSMO Roles in Active Directory

Friday, October 9th, 2009 1,149 views

Windows 2000/2003 Multi-Master Model A multi-master enabled database, such as the Active Directory, provides the flexibility of allowing changes to occur at any DC in the enterprise, but it also introduces the possibility of conflicts that can potentially lead to problems once the data is replicated to the rest of the enterprise. One way Windows [...]