If you have a glitch or communication problem when sending a document to your printer then there is a good chance that the failed document will become stuck in your print queue. Turning the printer off and on again generally has no effect because your Windows system is suffering from a print spooler error. The […]
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 […]
If you are the only person with access to your PC then it may be useful to you to have your PC automatically log in to Windows 8 to save you time and just a little effort every time you switch on. Warning – Setting your PC to automatically log in when you switch on […]
If you’re a bit of an email junkie and are constantly writing new emails, then creating a ‘New Email shortcut might save you a bit of time and hassle by avoiding having to load up your email client every time you need to send a new email. This tip will only work if you have […]
There may be occasions when for whatever reason you can’t get in to your computer because you have lost the Windows 8 password, maybe you just set the machine up and miss-typed the password, or maybe it’s a rarely used machine and you’ve plain and simply forgot the password. Don’t fear though, there are a […]
Securing USB ports is one of the most fundamental but often overlooked security measure that any one can implement. USB ports are a wonderful invention, they allow us to plug all manner of devices into our computers and access and control them from almost anywhere in the world. If you have an external hard drive, […]
If you are having trouble booting or using your PC, you may need to boot in to some sort of recovery environment to enable you to either fix the problem, or at least recover your data. Windows 8 has a handy little recovery system that can be stored on a USB stick, and will make […]
Many of the tips that we show you in this section will need you to use the Command Line to perform a task or series of tasks, however, the normal Command Line interface does not have full administrator privileges, so you need something known as an ‘Elevated Command Prompt’ (ECP)to undertake full system maintenance. Rather […]