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

Long ago, when Microsoft made its first graphical user interface (GUI) to replace DOS, one place they looked toward for inspiration was Apple’s GUI. Many of Apple’s design choices were mimicked, and then reversed in an attempt to avoid copyright infringement lawsuits.

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Change the Windows 7 Cursor to Look Like the Mac OS Cursor

Now that Microsoft Office 2010 has become firmly entrenched in the marketplace, it’s time to look at some of the truly useful additions Microsoft has made to its suite of products. In this post, we’ll look at the Navigation Pane, something Microsoft created for Word 2007, but has greatly improved with its latest iteration

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How to Use MS Word 2010′s Navigation Pane

Available in Windows 7 Professional, XP Mode allows you to integrate your physical computer’s resources with a Virtual Machine. Components you can share include drives, audio, printers, Clipboard, and smart cards. Learn how to enable and use the integration features of an XP Mode Virtual Machine

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Enable Integration Features for an XP Mode Virtual Machine