How To: Create One Partition on a 3TB Drive

I recently upgraded the hard drives in my home desktop and encountered a minor stumbling block that I thought I’d share with you all. BACKGROUND My desktop PC is setup with 3 hard drives. The boot drive is a 1TB drive (C:). I then have two 1.5TB drives (E: and F:) which serve as the […]

Shrink the Size of Winsxs in Windows 7

Microsoft has never met a gigabyte of storage space it didn’t like for underlying operating system needs. As hard drive capacities have increased, this has gotten worse. While I normally wouldn’t care, the introduction of solid state drives have changed the game. Now costs for storage space have gone back up and limits have contracted.

Tip: Use F2 to Rename Files and Folders

Sometimes some of the easiest tricks on a computer are the least often used. I would wager that over 3/4 of the population has never intentionally used a single function key on their keyboard. Sure, they might have mashed one or two in a fit of rage as their system locks up for the 17th […]

What happened to the Address Bar in Windows XP Service Pack 3?

Like the Show Desktop button, I’m also a huge fan of the Address Bar toolbar in Windows XP. Or at least I was until Service Pack 3. The Address Toolbar (RIP) Recently, Microsoft under the guise of a Service Pack removed functionality. I believe the explanation they used was something like, “Due to regulatory requests […]

The Show Desktop Button

Back in the late 90’s, Microsoft rolled out a feature as a part of Windows 98 that I have come to love far and away above all others. It was a simple feature that 85% or more of folks don’t even know exists. If they have seen it, chances are they’ve never used it and […]