There's been some talk recently regarding fixing Windows problems by using Linux, when Windows utilities fail to work properly. Today I ran into yet another one. This time, with a corrupt Windows 7 ...

As you install new programs onto a Windows computer at your office, some of these applications may add themselves to the startup list. As this list grows, your computer may appear to slow down, a ...

What is the Windows Registry? Think of it as the “brains” of your Windows installation. Specifically, it’s a giant warehouse, a single, easy-to-access, hierarchical database that stores each of your ...

15 Windows updates (some security, but mostly optional) were chosen via the autoupdate method on my wife's Windows 7 system, and upon subsequent boot, the system hung up on configuring updates, ...

From speeding up right-click menus to disabling web results in Start Menu search, these advanced Windows registry tweaks can make your system feel snappier and less annoying. Just be careful—editing ...

Windows 7's taskbar is undoubtedly a great addition to Windows, but if you've got more than one application window open, you've got to either click twice or patiently hover to navigate to an open ...

You can edit the Windows Registry with the help of Console Registry Tool or reg.exe. Reg.exe is a command-line utility with which you can perform almost all the tasks you otherwise can with ...

Windows 7 has been well received both critically and on the street. And while Lifehacker readers love Windows 7, a well-built OS isn't a perfect OS. Check out these five applications that tweak ...

The Windows 7 System Recovery Command Prompt is a text-based console that allow you to perform maintenance and recovery tasks on your computer by typing the commands that you would like to execute.