You see a lot of products out there purporting to help you get back that speed that your computer has lost over time as you’ve cruised the Internet picking up cookies, installed programs and maybe sometimes unplugged your computer before remembering to shut it off. Microsoft apparently understands that computers running their operating system need some tweaking and/or maintenance from time to time, so that’s why they’ve included some tools to help users get back some, it not all, of the speed they’ve lost.

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Use Microsoft’s Optimizing Tools to Keep your Windows 7 Computer Running Fast

Spam is a problem. Even with the greatest of spam filters, our email addresses are still bombarded with requests for money from third-world royalty, promises of instant appendage enlargements, and various get-rich-quick business opportunities

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Recycle Spam into Works of Art

Deleting the recycle bin is unlike deleting a normal icon or shortcut on the Windows 7 desktop. You cannot just right-click and then select delete from the context menu

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Delete The Recycle Bin and Pin To Taskbar In Windows 7

Before I bought a Mac laptop a year ago, I was always a hardcore PC user.

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Change Application Icons in Mac OS X

Updating our computer software has become a fairly automated process. We are notified about updates though built-in notification systems as soon as an update drops. But for the rest of our electronics, updates are harder to track.

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Track Updates for Cell Phones, Game Consoles, MP3 Players and Other Gadgets