Change from Public to Private Network in Windows In Windows, when you connect to a wireless network, it will either register it as aPublicnetwork or aPrivatenetwork. Private networks are basically home and work whereas public networks are anywhere else, which you don’t trust. Sometimes Windows detects a private network as a public one and vice versa. You can manually make some changes to ensure that you are not accidentally sharing either too much on a public network or blocking all sharing on a private network....

Transfer Files from Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8 to Windows 10 using Windows Easy Transfer Whether you plan to upgrade your Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8 machine to Windows 10 or buy a new PC with Windows 10 pre-installed, you can use Windows Easy Transfer to copy all your files and settings from your old machine or old version of Windows to your new machine running Windows 10. In this article, I’ll walk you through the steps to configure Windows Easy Transfer....

How to Prevent Shutdown of a Windows Computer If you’re looking for a way to prevent people from shutting down or logging off your Windows machine, you’ve come to the right place. Whatever your reason may be, there are several ways to remove all options for shutting down or logging off a Windows computer. By default, there are several ways to shut down a Window computer: click onStartandTurn Off Computer/Shut Down, press CTRL + ALT + DEL and choose Shut Down, open the command prompt and type in the shutdown command, or install a third party application that shuts down the computer for you....

The Ultimate Guide to the Windows 10 Task Manager Ever had a program freeze on you that refuses to close or disappear? One annoying problem is when a poorly written application crashes and refuses to be shut down. Or maybe you’ve noticed that your computer is suddenly running very slow, but there’s no clear indication as to why? In that case, you might have a process running on your system that is hogging all of the CPU time or taking up loads of memory....

99 of the Best Windows Freeware Programs You May Not Know Of Bookmark this article for easy reference Due to the popularity of my previous article on Help Desk Geek entitled99 ways to make your computer blazingly fast, I’ve decided to write another list post with 99 items, but this time on Windows freeware programs that you may have not heard of. If you search for “best freeware programs” or “top freeware apps”, you’ll get lots of lists, but mostly with programs everyone has already heard of: AVG anti-virus, 7-zip, Firefox, OpenOffice, etc....