When you install new printers on your Windows machine they might have the nasty habit of setting themselves as the new default printer. That may be fine if you intend to use that new printer a lot but can be a pain if you only use it once or twice. To set another printer as ... Read more
Usually Google restricts its results to the language you have set for the page itself, which is the one spoken in the country it locates you in by default. You can easily change these settings by clicking on the cog wheel icon on the top right and going to Search Settings: Next, click on Languages ... Read more
Windows as well as other platforms use two different forms to display a text-cursor. One, which is used most, is the bar-formed cursor which rests between two letters. The other has block form and rests on a letter, replacing it if new input is done and going one letter further. This is annoying if you ... Read more
Windows 7 comes with the Aero skin by default which might look nice but consumes a great deal of resources - and with them, power. I have experienced a loss of up to two hours of battery life on my notebook when turning Aero on which one can get back by switching to the classic ... Read more
The weather app in Windows 8 comes with degree Fahrenheit as its default unit for temperature and its a bit tricky to find out how to change that. To do so, open the weather app and fade in the Charms menu (point your cursor to the top or bottom right corner and slide towards the ... Read more
Resetting an account password on Ubuntu Linux is unexpectedly easy to do, you don't even need any tools or anything for it. To start, go into the GRUB menu by pressing Shift while booting. In the menu, enter the Recovery Mode option: You will be presented a window with quite a few options of which ... Read more
If you want to make your Ubuntu installation a little less purple and orange, but don't see a solution that covers the change of log-in screen background picture change, try Simple Lightdm Manager. It is a tool that lets you turn the log-in screen into any image you have on your computer. To install, open ... Read more
By working with different drives it sometimes may occur that two drives are given the same drive letter - usually this is not the case but it may always happen due to bugs. It is also possible that a drive loses its letter "spontaneously". What results is that one or both of them is/are not ... Read more
This article will deal with two aspects: handling the regular sounds which are accessible in Control Panel as well as changing the system startup sound, which is hidden inside a .dll file and quite tricky to get at. The regular sounds can be accessed by entering the Control Panel and browsing to Control Panel\Hardware and ... Read more
There is a tool called <em>Aero Adjuster</em> that works as a tray-icon in the taskbar and changes the colors of your Windows 7 Aero theme every time you change your wallpaper. Furthermore you also have the option to change brightness and/or to invert the colors, ignore black, white and grey tones and to only choose ... Read more