Tutorials

Assortment of tutorials I've written for fun or for friends

Pinning individual control panel applets

 As you may or may not know then Windows does not allow you to pin individual Control Panel Applets to the Task Bar or Start Menu, you can however pin the control panel itself but that may not necessarily help you much.

Resizing background images with a freeware tool

I have found FastStone Image Viewer to be the best and most versatile freeware image viewing program available for Windows,  in addition to viewing images you can also perform basic editing task with it.

You can resize, crop, flip, rotate and apply effects and do many other things with it, and for creating or rather resizing wallpapers it is an excellent tool.

How to change login background in Windows 7

Here is how you change the login background in Windows 7 without using 3rd party programs or editing the registry by hand.

First we begin by opening the "Local Group Policy Editor" by going to Start -> Run -> "gpedit.msc"

 

 

 

 

Once there we expand to "Computer Configuration" -> "Administrative Template"s -> "System" -> "Logon" and edit the "Always use custom logon background" option.

How to make Admin shares work in Windows 7 as they did before..

  Today I had a funny problem,  or well I've run into this before but I didn't really have the motivation to do any research on it. 

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