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How to Use the Mac Mini Menu Bar
With the same operating system as other Apple computers, the Mac Mini's menu bar resides at the top of the screen. Mid-2010 and newer Mac Mini's have an HDMI port to plug the computer into high-definition televisions and monitors. The menu bar often disappears when plugged in this way. This is cause
How to Stop the Spooler Command
The print spooler service plays a vital role for your computer's operating system. When you send a job to the printer, the print spooler monitors that job and makes sure it gets serviced. While most of the time you want this service to start automatically, there are times when you will want to stop
How to Move Mac OS X Files to a NTFS External Hard Drive
The two most popular operating systems in use today, Windows and Mac, use different file systems on their storage devices. Windows discs are usually formatted in either a FAT32 format or a NTFS format, while Mac's default file system is HFS+.While Mac can read both FAT32 and
How to Make Your Own Iron on Labels
Iron-on labels can serve a variety of purposes, including labeling handmade items to prepare them for sale or labeling clothing items before a child goes off to camp. Whatever your purpose, make your own iron-on labels with your computer and print them out with a printer. Make attractive and useful
How do I Obtain Everything That Has Been Typed on a Computer?
Keyloggers are a category of software that intercepts each keystroke entered on a computer's keyboard. The keylogger program saves these keystrokes to a log file for later viewing. The obvious value in this is to determine what someone is doing on his computer. Bank information, passwords and sensit
What Happens When a Computer Crashes?
Crashes and ResultsA computer crash is basically when a computer abruptly stops working, usually by freezing up and preventing all commands from working. When a computer crashes, a full reboot is needed to refresh the system. You will likely need to force a shutdown of the system by...
What Is Microsoft Kinect
Kinect is one of the most happening and latest products launched by Microsoft. It is replacing the touch technology with gesture recognition technology. It is a motion sensing input device which works with the Microsoft's most popular video game console, the Xbox 360 and Windows based computers
How to Clean Computer LCDs
Liquid crystal display monitors use liquid crystals to illuminate pixels on the computer screen. These displays can easily accrue dirt and dust. The screens are sensitive and easily scratched. Users with a dirty LCD computer monitor must take care to gently and properly clean their screens.
How to Share a Printer on XP With a Vista Wireless Laptop
One of the downsides of using a wireless laptop is that you are not able to print documents if you are not physically connected to a printer. However, you can connect to a shared printer through your wireless network and print using a printer that is connected to another computer on the network. Sh
Ways to Print From a Laptop to a Printer with Wireless
To print via your laptops wireless networking, a printer will have to be connected to the network. There are several ways of connecting a printer to a network. One is to use a printer with either built-in wireless or wired networking capabilities. The other is to set up a print server on your networ
How to Hook up a Monitor to an iBook
Your iBook has a video output port that you can use to mirror your computer's display on an external monitor. You might find this capability useful when troubleshooting a computer problem, or because you want to increase the size of the display when playing a game or watching a movie. Because the iB
How to Play the Piano Using the Computer Keyboard
Using your computer keyboard as a virtual piano can be both entertaining and educational, allowing you to sample the world of pianists before investing in a more expensive electronic or other type of piano. This is done by using an online virtual keyboard to translate your keystrokes into the notes
Polynesian Tattoo Meanings
Bold, symbolic, and a piece of art - that's what a Polynesian tattoo looks like. But have you ever delved a little deeper into finding out the meaning behind this type of tattoo? This article ...
Next-Generation Internet And Network Security Tips
Internet and network security has become the need of the hour. For both individuals and businesses, it is very important to protect information and data. There are plenty of threats flying on the web and ...
How to Change the Name of a Mounted Drive
A mounted drive refers to a partition that is connected or linked to a folder on another drive. Mounted drives are quite useful when you run out of space on one hard drive. You can create a mounted drive on another hard drive where data can be stored. Mounted drives, also known as mounted folders, a
How to Check the MTU on a Netgear Router
A network's maximum transmission unit, or MTU, controls the size of the data packets transferred between computers. Changing the size of these packets affects overall network efficiency. The default MTU size on most routers is 1500. Some applications and protocols work better with higher or lower se
How to Encrypt a File With a Password
An application with the functionality to apply a password and validate log-ins is required to encrypt a file with a password. Fortunately, many productivity applications provide file-level security, allowing the owner of the file to set a password to open the file. For example, in Microsoft Word, se
How to Use the Webcam on a Dell Inspiron Laptop Computer
Dell Inspiron laptop computers come standard with an integrated webcam. This offers a number of conveniences, the least of which is that you do not have to attach a large USB webcam to your computer every time you want have a video chat using Skype or your favorite instant messaging program. The int
How to Open a Corrupted Zip Disk
Zip disks are a removable storage device similar to floppy disks. They generally have a high storage capacity of at least 100MB and up too 750MB. With continuous use they can become unreadable or corrupt. Opening an unreadable Zip disk involves a two-part process. Repair the damaged disk and recover
Lenovo Y410 Vs. Y510
Based in central China, Lenovo Group Limited (Lenovo) is the fourth largest computer manufacturer in the world. Lenovo licensed the right to produce the popular Thinkpad series (and derivatives) from International Business Machines (IBM) in early 2005. Thanks to lower manufacturing costs overseas a