If you receive an error window when trying to run the built in Windows defragmenter tool (dfrg.msc), here are a number of solutions to try and repair the problem.
A user account can be promoted from the Control Panel using an administrator account. However if you do not know the password to login to Windows, here are 3 workarounds to turn a user into an administrator.
Moving a hard drive with Windows XP installed to another computer that has dissimilar hardware will cause an endless loop of blue screen. Here's the fix.
There are a couple of ways to replace Notepad with Notepad++ but they all quite risky because it involves replacing system files in Windows. Here we show you how to safely do it that will survive through new service pack installation and also easy to restore.
You can find the most complete method to reset the BIOS or CMOS password here. We have a list of default passwords used by BIOS, free tools to decrypt the password, programs to reset bios directly from Windows and even a manual method by simply using the debug tool.
Although the space on USB drives and memory cards is not as big as computer hard drives, it’s still nice to create a full backup and then save the drive contents as a single image file. Here are 7 free tools to do it.
When you are performing resource intensive tasks and the system becomes unstable or crashes while being put under stress, here are 11 tools (9 of them free) to do just that and stress test the system to check for faults or problems.