In Windows I would normally be driven to either format a drive through the Disk Management console or by right-clicking on a drive in Windows Explorer and selecting the “Format…” option, but there can be advantages to formatting a driver through Command Prompt. For example if you are reformatting a drive which previously had an Operating System on the drive you can find there are System Partitions on the drive which can’t be seen in Windows Explorer and refuse to … Continue reading →

Getting a computer viruses or some nasty on your system can be a pain in the backside. Here are some top tips to beat it and get back on track. The first step is to arm yourself with a toolkit of anti-virus / malware removal programs. Many malicious programs have the ability to block access to download sites of popular virus removal tools or worse still divert the user to an entirely different web page, who knows what unsuspecting victims … Continue reading →

If you are on the receiving end of the explorer.exe error “No such interface supported” then the chances are you have recently attempted to install Internet Explorer 7 on a Windows 7 computer. Unfortunatelyyou have caused some damage which Windows needs to function. However, it’s not all doom and gloom! There is a quick fix which requires a bit of typing in command prompt. Click Start > Run and type “CMD” to bring up your command prompt. Next in the … Continue reading →

If you want to speed up the time it takes you to launch your favourite applications or documents, Windows has a nice feature built in for creating keyboard shortcuts which often gets over looked. Before we go any further it’s also worth noting if you’re a Windows 7 user that if all you want is to quickly launch applications that you’ve already got pinned to your Windows 7 task bar, you can press Win+1, 2, 3, 4, etc., to launch … Continue reading →

If the Show Desktop icon has been deleted from your desktop the following will recreate the file. Open Notepad or any favoured text editor and enter the following text: [Shell] Command=2 IconFile=explorer.exe,3 [Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop Save the new file as Show Desktop.scf and as simple as that you have created a new Show Desktop Icon.