Windows Tools, Help & Guides

For the next week, I’m going to run a series of guides that will help you build and run a website on your Windows machine.

If you would like to build your own website, you can do it on your own computer without putting it online. This can be useful for a number of reasons:

1. You don’t have your own web hosting but you want the experience of complete access
2. You want to test a website before you put it online
3. You want to start a website that helps you organize your life, for example, but you don’t always have access to the internet

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Office 2007 comes with a utility named Groove and I assume you already know that because you’re reading this guide. Learn how to remove it below.

I have no need for Groove, which syncs your documents for collaboration with others. If you have no need for this, you can do either of the following: remove Groove completely or remove references to the groove in Windows Explorer.

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In Windows Vista, you may get an “Access is denied” message when trying to connect to a network printer. In this guide, you’ll learn a workaround to help resolve this issue.

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If you like to customize your folder icons in Vista, you can either download custom icons or use Windows’ build in icons. In this guide, you’ll learn how to change a folder icon and how to find more icons, which are built right into Vista.

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I check Gmail a lot and used to have it as a secondary tab in my home page when Firefox starts. I recently decided to try and add Gmail to the desktop context menu and now I want to share this trick with you. I’ve also included a file you can use to add mintywhite.com to your desktop context menu too.

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If you’re making changes to your system and using programs such as CCleaner or Advanced SystemCare, you should always make a restore point before. There is the argument that by creating a restore point you take up almost all the space you are freeing up of these programs. This is true; however, cleaning your system can improve performance significantly and is good practice when using your PC.

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This comprehensive PC-care utility has a one-click approach to helping protect, repair and optimize your PC. Advanced WindowsCare Personal Edition helps protect, optimize, and repair your PC –– with daily use. I have used Advanced Windows Care for over a year now and I highly recommend using it. Update April 14, 2009: many Windows Guides readers have expressed how much they like this program and for all you new readers, I thought it would be good for you take a look. I’ve updated the download link, and Advance SystemCare Pro is better than ever. I run this program on all of my computers and couldn’t recommend it more.

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If you would like to change your boot screen, which shows when Windows Vista loads, you can learn how in this guide. We’ll use a program named “Vista Visual Master.” Find out more about Vista Visual Master.

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I’ve covered this topic already–using Logon Studio Vista. In this guide, I’ll show you how to change you logon screen using, vista Visual Master, which is a tool that will let you tweak other parts of Vista too. Find out more about Vista Visual Master.

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If you would like to change the information about your computer without hacking the registry, then you may use Vista Visual Master. Find out more about Vista Visual Master.

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