There are several ways to adjust the size of text and items on your screen. I'll discuss a commonly-used wrong way as well as the right way.

It's time for me to buy a new computer, and I'm taking you along for the ride.

I see people lose access to their important accounts all the time. Most frustrating is that it's often their own fault that they can't regain access.

When your email program starts repeatedly asking you for your password, it's a sign of a problem. Most of the time, it's a simple problem.

Occasionally, the Windows taskbar can end up on either side (or even the top of) your screen. I'll show you how to move the taskbar bar back to the bottom.

As security compromises happen regularly, many are asking, "Is the cloud too dangerous?" It's as safe as you make it.

Windows includes the tools needed to uncompress files that you (or prior versions of Windows) might have compressed using Windows File Compression.

Out-of-office replies can ricochet through email lists like spam and even put you in harm's way. Are they evil?

If no preparations have been made beforehand, accessing the machine of a deceased loved one can be anywhere from easy to impossible.

Chkdsk checks your disk for errors at a low level, requiring exclusive access to the disk to do so. "Chkdsk cannot run..." means it doesn't have the exclusive access it needs.