With every new and improved system comes its own sets of rules, schemes and shortcuts. Man in general is always searching for ways and means to make life simpler, and keyboard shortcuts seem to be the geek’s answer to real shortcuts in life. Coming more to the point, the highly awaited Windows 7, the latest [...]

Windows 7 assumes that, eventually, more than one people will want to use your PC. All kinds of troubles crop up when a few people share a computer. You set up your desktop just right, with all those programs and icons right where you can find them, and then your son comes along and ignorantly [...]

When managing user accounts in Windows 7, you’ll eventually bump into an existential fact of Windows hierarchy over and over again: The account type may put severe restrictions on what you are allowed to do.
Unless you are hooked up to a large corporate network, user accounts will generally be divided into a couple of groups: [...]

Right now, while you are thinking of it, you can create a Windows 7 system repair disc. It’s free and it’s easy, if you can spare one blank CD. (Yes, the repair disc fits on one CD – you don’t need a DVD.)
It allows you to quickly boot your computer, even if the Windows 7 [...]

Standard accounts and administrator accounts are not set in concrete. As a matter of fact, Windows 7 allows you to shape-shift between these two when circumstances dictate:

If you are a standard user and try to do a few things that need an administrator account, Windows 7 ask you to type in an administrator username and [...]

Upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 should be relatively easy. 
During your installation process of Windows 7 you will see the upgrade option which you should choose.  The good thing about upgrading is that you are able to keep your files, settings and programs for Windows Vista.  I would still make a back up of [...]