View Hidden Files and Folders in Windows 11 The Window 11 This Pc  does not show hidden files or folders by default, only the files that your user has access to. Here’s what file browser looks like when browsing the root file system normally: As you can see, all of the hidden/system folders are not shown. If you want to …

How to Change Search Bing to Google.com in Microsoft Edge. Windows 11 includes Microsoft edge , and on a new install it defaults to Microsoft’s Live Search, which is just terrible. Here’s the easy steps to make Google the default search engine instead. First, open up Microsoft edge, and then click the three Dots Menu dropdown: You should see a …

Sync Your System Clock with Internet Time Servers in Window 11 Window has an easy way to keep your system synchronized with the internet time servers. This is especially useful on older computers that may have problems with the system clock losing time. To enable this feature, first we’ll right click the clock and choose Adjust Date & Time: You …

Clear the Auto-Complete Email Address Cache in Outlook Outlook 2003 has an automatic completion for any email address that you try to type into the To or CC fields. This feature does not pull from the contacts or address book, because you may have tried to email somebody that wasn’t in your contact list, and it will still add that …

Make VLC Player Look like Windows Media Player 11 The VLC Media Player is an open source, cross-platform media client that supports the vast majority of media formats. One of the great features is that it supports skins that work across different platforms. This article will cover installing on both linux and windows. You will first need to download the …

Close Tab Quickly with A Shortcut  Key in Firefox/Chrome Firefox has a ton of shortcut keys, but this is one of the most useful. I had written before about how to select a specific tab with a keyboard hotkey, which I use to easily switch back to my RSS reader of choice (Google Reader). Today I was wondering how I could …

Select Specific Tab with Keyboard Hotkey in Chrome/Firefox Firefox has built-in keyboard shortcuts for quickly navigating directly to the tab you want to get to. This is very useful when you are using Google Reader or Bloglines to read RSS feeds, and you’ve opened up a bunch of tabs. Before discovering this trick, I always used Ctrl+Tab to navigate back, …

Disable Power Management on Windows 7 or Vista If you are using a desktop computer, chances are that you don’t want the computer to go to sleep automatically. This is even more the case if you are running Windows 7 or Vista in a virtual machine for testing purposes. Disabling Power Management in Windows 7 Start by clicking on the …

Find Out What Keywords are Bringing Visitors to Your Site with Google Analytics Note: This article is was for the prior version of Analytics Google Analytics is a wonderful free tool for webmasters to track stats. The only problem with it is that some of the most common tasks seem abnormally difficult to do, or are buried under a bunch …

Find a Forgotten Password Saved in Firefox/Chrome Firefox/Chrome, like many popular browsers, includes a built-in functionality to save your password. Often we’ll use the saved password feature so often that we’ve completely forgotten our password when we need to login to the same website on another computer. Here’s how to locate your saved password. In Firefox, navigate to the Tools …