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How To: Lock your desktop wallpaper

Lock your Windows desktop wallpaper to prevent it from being changed. Lock your desktop wallpaper.

How To: Change the Windows XP login password

How to change the login password on Windows XP without having to know the existing password. Change the Windows XP login password.

How To: Detect malware in WIndows

Use the MRT.exe program within Windows to scan your system for malware and harmful programs. Detect malware in WIndows.

How To: Change the Windows XP administrator's password

How to change the password on the administrator's account in Windows XP. Change the Windows XP administrator's password.

How To: Change your IP address when using Windows

Your IP address or Internet Protocol address is your computer's unique identifier. Here is our quick guide on how to change your IP address when using Windows. Change your IP address when using Windows.

How To: Format a hard drive with the Mac Disk Utility

Formatting a hard drive is not exactly an essential computer skill, but it certainly is if you're a technie who's looking to start building your own computers. Hard drive formatting involves erasing/formating a hard drive or USB flash drive to be compatible with different formats like MAC OS Extended and Windows OS.

How To: Free up hard drive space on a Mac

http://AskTheTechies.com Brandon Jackson is back with D.Lee Beard to answer "What files are safe to trash on a Mac to free up hard drive space?" What files are the biggest hogs? Have you really trashed all the files you thought you had? Also in this episode: how to sort web browser bookmarks.

How To: Defragment or format a Mac hard drive

In this episode of Ask the Techoes, D.Lee and Brandon answer viewer questions on how to defrag a Mac hard drive, erasing an NTFS hard drive on Mac OS 10.4, how to uninstall programs and their related files on a Mac, questions with Parallels, and how to create a wireless USB hub. Send us your questions at askthetechies@gmail.com Hosts: D.Lee Beard & Brandon Jackson http://AskTheTechies.com

How To: Run Windows applications on Ubuntu Linux

Short tutorial on how to run a wide selection of Windows native programs on Ubuntu Linux using Wine.

How To: Create your own font in Windows XP

Create your very own font with the built in XP Program! Check out this hidden Windows XP program and do wonders.

How To: Design your own font in Windows XP

Design your own font characters for windows, using a hidden application in windows xp. Try it now!

How To: Dual-boot Windows XP and Mac OS X on a PC

This shows how to install Mac OS X on Intel/AMD PCs as a dual boot with Windows. Part 1 of 2 - How to Dual-boot Windows XP and Mac OS X on a PC.

How To: Customize the dock on your Mac

This video shows you how to customize the dock on your Mac using Candy Bar application from Panic.com (http://panic.com/candybar), and icons from IconFactory (http://iconfactory.com).

How To: Organize your Mac dock using folders

Watch this video to learn how you can use folders to better organize your Mac dock. Group together applications in folders and add the folders to your dock instead of each individual app.

How To: Hack into a Windows PC with Ophcrack

Learn how to hack into a Windows PC by using a program called Ophcrack.

How To: Stop alert balloons in Windows XP

Learn how to disable alert balloons in Windows XP.

How To: Password protect and hide files and folders in Windows

How to password protect a folder and make files invisible in Windows XP.

How To: Create a shutdown shortcut in Windows

How to create an icon that will shutdown your computer when clicked in Windows XP.

How To: Print File Lists in Mac OS Leopard

Gary Rosenzweig looks at various methods for printing lists of files in folders in Mac OS Leopard: downloadable applications, using the Terminal, and simple copy and paste methods.

How To: Open Windows mail attachments on a Mac

When you're a Windows OS user it's very easy to send out attachments on emails as .doc documents, made in Microsoft Office or Excel. But just because you're a Windows user doesn't mean your friend or coworker is. Or say that you're a MAC user and your friend keeps loading you with Microsoft Office documents. What do you do, other than telling him to stop already?

How To: Make text easier to read in Mac OS

Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at three ways to make text on your screen easier to read. This could be used by people with visual impairments, but also could be used by anyone wishing to reduce eye-strain or be slightly more productive. Techniques include enlarging font size in Safari, using screen zoom, and using text-to-speech.

How To: Password protect files in Mac OS

Gary Rosenzweig from MacMost looks at one method to protect a set of files with a password on a Mac. It involves using Disk Utility to create an encrypted disk image.

How To: Use smart folders in Mac OS X

Gary Rosenzweig and Molly Stanberry from Macmost show you how to use smart folders in Leopard.

How To: Use the Mac OS Leopard Finder

Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at the Leopard finder and discovers some handy functionality and shortcuts.

How To: Remove the Windows XP search assistant

This trick shows you how to remove the search assistant dog in Windows XP. You want to go to: Start, run, type regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER SoftwareMicrosoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer CabinetState, create a new string and call it "Use Search Asst" (remember the Caps), give it the value "no".