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How To Automatically Shut Down Your Windows 7 Computer

July 18, 2009 By Bill 171 Comments

Well, here we go again.  In addition to my How To Automatically Shut Down Your Windows XP Computer I showed how to set it up so you can use the ShutDown.exe command to schedule and automatically shut your Windows XP computer off. In my How To Automatically Shut Down Your Windows Vista Computer we stepped through the same idea.  And now, here's Windows 7.  Guess what?  Not too Continue Reading

Four WordPress Themes and Two WordPress Plugins Go Into A Bar…

August 9, 2008 By Bill 1 Comment

When you first start blogging in WordPress it can be a daunting task just to pick a theme.  Themes are what makes your blog look somewhat unique or completely unique.  WordPress itself started its theme directory back up with some pretty nice free themes. However, there are also free themes scattered throughout the Internet as well, all you have to do is a Google search for Continue Reading

How To Automatically Shutdown Your Windows Vista Computer

April 7, 2008 By Bill 35 Comments

In my article How To Automatically Shut Down Your Windows XP Computer I showed how to set it up so you can use the ShutDown.exe command to schedule and automatically shutdown your Windows XP computer. In this article I'll show you how to do the same thing in Windows Vista. Continue Reading

Zipping Files With Vista

March 21, 2008 By Bill Leave a Comment

photo credit: flattop341 I've downloaded and installed Windows Vista Service Pack 1. I've been running Vista Home Edition and Ultimate Edition for a bout one year now. The file copy, file zipping and unzipping and file deleting are sometimes super duper slow and has been discussed by many. I decided to check out what's changed with the zipping and unzipping of folders and Continue Reading

4 Tips For Managing Your PC

March 4, 2008 By Bill 1 Comment

photo credit: shioshvili Is your computer's Desktop or My Documents folders overflowing with files? Do you save a bunch of stuff to your desktop? Shortcuts to documents? Shortcuts to websites? Shortcuts to everything? Programs you downloaded and installed? Photographs downloaded from your camera? Do you let it all sit there until it takes over your desktop? A lot of Continue Reading

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