How2NotFail

Remember when computers had handly little flip switches in the back, or on the side, that you could toggle to power your computer on and off? Most desktops today just have those push-buttons on the front. If you’ve been wondering how to get your computer to forcefully power down, here’s how:
- Simply push and hold [...]

If you ever need to register an account somewhere and you don’t entirely trust that the site you are registering at wont send you spam, there’s a simple trick you can use if you have a Gmail account (and some other email providers) to help you organize and weed out any spam you receive down [...]

This happened to me a long time ago, when I first started using windows, and I had NO idea how to fix it. All you see is a nice compact little border around your tasks, with no way to get back to the higher functions of your task manager. The File, Options, View, etc are [...]

Sometimes when using an application in windows you may be thinking “there must be an easier way to do this”, fortunately for us there usually is. To save you the time of figuring them all out yourself, here is a quick list of some of the more usefull shortcuts you may find yourself using frequently [...]

File extensions are usually the source of a lot of problems for novice windows users. Having them hidden makes it easy for file types to get confusing and even obscure, since you only have icons to go by. In some cases, it may even lead to the unknowing opening of an infected file, that packs [...]

Is there an easy way to tell for sure if a download has a virus? No. But- There is an easy way to tell if it doesn’t have one! The secret lies in file types. Generally speaking, there are two types of files. Executable files and data files. Executables are any type of file that [...]