Warning – This tip involves editing the Windows Registry – before you implement this tip please read our guide on the Registry here – you implement this tip at your own risk, Chimpytech cannot be held responsible for any problems you encounter from editing your Registry. In Windows 7 the amount of time that the […]
Many of the tips (or ‘hacks’) we cover on this site involve the modification of the Windows Registry, but many people are unsure of what the Windows Registry actually is, and how it works. Before messing around with the Windows Registry we suggest reading and understanding this guide first, especially the section on backing up […]
If you’re a regular user of the Sniping Tool, you probably want to have it easily to hand rather than having to keep going off to the Start Menu to find it, well, it’s actually pretty easy to pin the Snipping tool to the Taskbar so it’s right on hand every time you want it. […]
Sometimes when using Microsoft Windows you can move a window off screen to such an extent that it is impossible to grab it and bring it back on to your screen again. This commonly happens with laptop users who plug their machine in to a second screen, and forget to move the window back on […]
There aren’t many PC users who haven’t heard of ‘System Restore, but what is System Restore, and what does it do for me? System Restore is a feature of Windows that allows you to restore your computers critical system files to an earlier point in time, to help in the troubleshooting of problems, but crucially […]
If you’re the sort of person who frequently takes screen shots to send to other people or to use as storage and archiving then you will almost certainly have come up against the palaver of having to hit the ‘Print Screen’ key on your keyboard, open an image editing program, pasting in the image from […]
When you delete a file from your PC in Microsoft Windows it isn’t usually really deleted, merely placed in the recycle bin, just in case you suddenly decide you have made a mistake and want to get the file back. While this is quite convenient, it can also be a security threat, as anyone with […]
By default Windows 7 is set to automatically re-start if it encounters a critical error rather than display the traditional ‘Blue Screen of Death’ and whilst this is fine if you only experience a critical error occasionally, it can be a bit of a pain if its regular, and you need the diagnostic information shown […]