The collaborative DIY web site Instructables has a neat trick for adding a shutdown shortcut to your Windows desktop complete with the shutdown icon (or anywhere else, for that matter). In fact, the ...

Shutting down your computer is a routine task, but navigating through the Start menu each time can be cumbersome. If you're looking for a quicker method, here's how to add a dedicated shutdown ...

In this post, we will help you create a printer shortcut on Windows 11/10 computer. Earlier versions of Windows OS show a printer icon in the system tray of the taskbar for the print queue. But, with ...

Windows 8 significantly changed the Windows interface, which can make it hard to find programs you're used to opening frequently. The Start menu, which used to list Windows accessories like Notepad, ...

OK I have searched through the forums to find a solution but have been unable to come up with any answers. This is my dilemma:<P>I am creating an installation interface for an old DOS program, which ...

In any business, small or large, computers and the Internet play a pivotal role in your day-to-day activities. If you're a small business owner, creating shortcuts on a computers that point directly ...

There's a keyboard shortcut to show the desktop on most (GNOME-based) Linux systems—Ctrl+Alt+D, or sometimes just Windows+D. If you like having an actual button to drop down, à la Windows, you can ...

Evernote is among the finest note-taking apps which can help you keep in mind essential tasks, make notes for important tasks, and more. It even allows users to create Private, as well as ‘shareable’ ...

You can shave some time off your email tasks by creating a desktop shortcut for sending messages to the people you contact most often. Most of my email messages go to the same few people — sometimes ...

When I create a shortcut on the desktop by right clicking on the game in my Library, it creates the shortcut but it doesn't apply an icon. If I select "create a shortcut on the desktop" when I first ...

A year ago, when I turned on my Vista machine for the first time, it didn’t take long to realize that unless I mastered keyboard and desktop shortcuts I would be wasting a lot of computing time ...