When opening the Services control panel applet it opens on the Extended tab by default. I find that tab wastes a great deal of real estate for no real value-added. All the same information is available on the Standard tab already, without the superfluous whitespace. Can anyone tell me if it’s possible, and how, to…
Can anyone recommend a disk access utility, preferably free, that will allow me to see what percentage of my hard drive access bandwidth is being used? Windows Task Manager shows CPU usage. That was fine, back in the day, when the CPU was the bottleneck, but these days it’s typically the hard drive that slows…
On Windows XP, when I try and delete a specific file it says: Cannot delete blah.blah: Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. How can I go around this warning and delete it anyway? Solution: To successfully delete a locked file, you will…
Part 1 is here if anyone is interested:Clone or Image a PC I’ve got 100 PC’s to setup. Is it possible to set up 1 of these PC’s with software, drivers, settings, configs, licenses etc, then clone/image exactly the same setup onto the other computers where each computer would have a different computer name,…
I have six MP3 files I would like to put on a CD. They should be playable in all stereos so I guess I would need them in WAV format(?). I have Windows XP. What is the easiest way to make my CD? Solution: You don’t need to do any conversion. You can use CDBurnerXP:…
I want to change the color scheme of the command prompt in Windows, ideally a default of 0a (green color on black background). How can I change this? Solution: Open a Command Prompt, click the icon (top-left), select Properties. Choose Colors, adjust to taste. It will ask you if you want to save the colour…
Last night my 500 GB Seagate hard drive was fine but this morning it suddenly started crashing, somehow I made it work after a chkdsk but 2 partitions show space is full now but it wasn’t when the drive was fine. The 3rd partition one is also acting weird. Whenever I try to open any…
Is it possible on to switch a console to full-screen in Windows XP on a single monitor? Meaning on a dual monitor that only the left (or right) screen displays the console while the other one remains on Windows. By full-screen I mean true-fullscreen mode, not just resizing (maximize) to fill in the screen. Solution:…
I would like to allow concurrent users on an XP install, but I was wondering if there was a way to do it with out swapping dll’s and booting into safe mode. (Registry changes are fine) Solution: No, that’s not possible. The restriction is hard coded into the terminal server dll’s provided with Windows XP….
I have a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium with Norton Internet Security 2009. I like to help my father and sister by connecting their PCs over the internet and taking full control. My father has Windows Vista Home Premium and my sister has Windows XP SP3. Both of them are using McAfee Internet Security…
