So you’ve tried Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and you’re not impressed. Lucky for you there’s a quick solution to downgrade back to trusty old IE7!
Windows XP Solution
1) Click the Start menu, control panel
2) From the control panel select “Add/Remove programs”
3) Find Internet Explorer 8 and proceed to uninstall it.
After the uninstall is complete you’ll be [...]

The problem:
Your windows XP taskbar is showing as two rows or it has doubled in size.
The solution:
Lucky for you, fixing this problem is dead simple.

First of all, make sure your taskbar is NOT locked.
1) Right click the taskbar (Make sure you “right click” a blank space, that is, don’t right click a running program)
2) [...]

I’ve seen this problem a few times, whereby you will be in the middle of doing a Windows Update and right after the updates have downloaded, they will refuse to be installed - often freezing and not showing any sign of further progress.
Here are a few solutions that are known to work.
Solution 1 - Reinstalling [...]

You’ve heard the hype, seen the funky screenshots and want to get in on the action. So you download and install Google Chrome, only to find an error appear stating;
The application failed to initialize properly (0×00000005). Press Ok to terminate application.
Solution 1
This error is most likely caused due to your system not having the Microsoft.NET [...]

If you’ve noticed a weird bar that sits on your screen and mentions something like “ytoolbar_title_my_add_disable”, and you can’t seem to remove it; the you’ve most likely have a broken yahoo toolbar. The best remedy is to simply remove the Yahoo Toolbar.
There’s a few things you can do.
1) If you use Firefox; click the tools [...]

If you’ve ever downloaded video files from BitTorrent before, you would be well aware that trying to preview them when the download hasn’t finished can be quiet annoying, if not impossible. However, there are a few different methods you can try;
If you’re downloading an entire season, but the complete series hasn’t finished yet (legal downloads [...]

Weird popups? Porn? Messages advising you to purchase products? Internet Explorer homepage keep changing? Did you wallpaper disappear? System running slow?
All of the above are symptoms of spyware, which may have been introduced to your machine via various methods - which include activeX downloads and software you installed on your PC (such as Kazaa and [...]

A friend of mine traveling in Italy recently asked me how they could clear the browsing history from the computer they were using in an Internet Cafe.
The best way to erase your browsing history is to use Firefox and the “Clear Private Data” tool that ships with it (ctrl + shift + delete). However if [...]

Windows XP firewall not cutting it? Then its time to move on to something more powerful. The thing about firewalls these days is that your most likely already covered by your workplace firewall, otherwise you know that little router/modem that you have at home? That’s already blocking inbound requests for you.
However there are times when [...]

Having troubles adding appointments or printing a shared calendar? Visit the persons computer who is SHARING the calendar and perform the following.

Click start, run
Type “outlook.exe /cleanfreebusy”

That should do the trick.

I had a problem with MSN not signing in when using MSN 8.0 or 8.1 BETA. It kept giving the error code 80072efd.
To fix it I had to download and install MSN 7.5 and it fixed the problem.
It is available from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0B88CCBF-4C52-4347-AA71-87184A13AC1C&displaylang=en

I went to install iTunes 7, as iTunes 6 informed me that there was a new version. Then the following error occured;
Error 1714. The older version of QuickTime cannot be removed. Contact your technical support group.
Solution
Search the registry for “quicktime.msi” and “itunes.msi”. Delete the folder ABOVE where this key lies.