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So I have a Windows 7 home machine with 2 user accounts.  One is a standard user account and one is an administrator account.  Now this is going to be put in the hands of a very low-tech user so I don’t want them to be able to see the administrator account on logon, but […]

I have a Lenovo W520 laptop with two graphics cards: I think Windows 7 (64 bit) is using my Intel graphics card ₃ which I think is integrated — because I have a low graphics rating in the Windows Experience Index. Also, the Intel card has 750MB of RAM while the NVIDIA has 2GB. How

I would like to disable the “Open File Security Warning” that says “Do you want to run this file?” whenever I double click on an .exe I download. I have Windows 7 Home Premium, so I don’t have the group policies editor. I have tried setting a registry value: HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesAssociations, value DefaultFileTypeRisk to 6152, but

I would like to know exact instructions for moving the page file from 1 disk location to another disk in Windows 7. I.e. from an SSD to a non-SSD drive. I’ve spent about two hours searching – Google, Bing, Blekko – and read many forums. Please don’t post philosophical discussions on speed increases or why

I have a new nVidia GTX 560 based card and an older GTX 260 card.  I have a single 2560×1600 monitor on the 560 (center of my desk) and two 2560×1600 monitors on the 260.  (to the left and right of the main monitor)  The 560 monitor is marked as the main display.  This gives

Our computers have been upgraded to HP EliteBook 8570p machines and while they’re very nice machines, they are also very large — so large that the left Ctrl key is too far away, making Ctrl+V really difficult to do with one hand. I’m sure there are ways to re-map the keys so that their signal

I want to be able to profile my startups and see how long each program takes to startup. I’m running windows 7. Solution: Soluto does exactly what you are looking for.   Soluto Beta allows you to understand your boot, discover which applications are slowing it down (and keep running later in the background, affecting

I’d like to use SSD as ReadyBoost cache disk. However, ReadyBoost can work with pluggable USB drives only (AFAIK). Is there any way to avoid this limitation? Solution: On Windows 7 you CAN use an internal SSD drive for ReadyBoost. Example scenario where it makes “some” sense:  You have an existing Windows 7 desktop that

After deploying a Windows 7 image to Stand alone machines we run into the following problem.   If we set autologon to off then we have to log in manually and activate Windows and Office – the Keys are installed but the products are not activated. (These laptops are set as loan laptops so may

When connecting to a server via Explorer (not a mapped network drive) even if the “Remember my credentials” check box is not selected, Windows remembers the password until you log out. Is there any way to switch user/password for a share without logging out and back in? Solution: Are you mapping the share to your