Technology often yields ridiculous conveniences, like being able to turn on your computer from miles away without pushing the power button. Wake-on-LAN, has been around for a while, so let’s see how it works and how we can enable it. What is Wake-on-LAN? Wake-on-LAN is an industry standard protocol for waking computers up from a very low power mode remotely. The definition of “low power mode” has changed a bit over time, but...

I came across this list and thought I’d share it with my readers. Its a really useful list of RUN COMMANDS To Access… Run Command Accessibility Controls access.cpl Accessibility Wizard accwiz Add Hardware Wizard hdwwiz.cpl Add/Remove Programs appwiz.cpl Administrative Tools control admintools Adobe Acrobat (if installed) acrobat Adobe Designer (if...

Have you ever wanted to automate some of your regularly used mouse and keyboard actions? If yes, you can try out GhostMouse, a freeware tool to record and play mouse and keyboardactions. GhostMouse Win7 is a tiny program that lets you record and playback a series of keyboard and mouse actions, and saves operation records as script files for later use. You can record actions and then play them whenever you want to repeat a set of...

Would you like more features and flash in Windows on your netbook?  Here’s how you can easily upgrade your netbook to Windows 7 Home Premium the easy way. Most new netbooks today ship with Windows 7 Starter, which is the cheapest edition of Windows 7.  It is fine for many computing tasks, and will run all your favorite programs great, but it lacks many customization, multimedia, and business features found in higher ...

Positioned as companions to either desktop or laptop computers, netbooks are small, light, convenient devices that allow for most of the basic computing functions found in larger systems. One of the most important decisions you will have to make when buying a netbook is whether to buy Windows XP or Windows 7 Starter for your operating system. Windows XP had a long and fruitful life as the operating system of choice for almost...

When Windows goes wrong, it can go really wrong. Worse: Often it’s extremely difficult to save your system from Windows itself. Here’s how to use a simple USB drive to free space, remove viruses, rescue passwords, and more from crunked Windows setups. What You Can Fix with this Method If you or your in-need friends or relatives can’t boot into your Windows desktop, or you can’t actually...