How to Change a Drive Letter in Windows Sometimes when you plug in a USB device, it doesn’t show up A task you will most likely have to perform a few times in Windows is changing the drive letter for an external hard drive, mapped network drive, or DVD drive. Sometimes when you plug in a USB flash drive, it doesn’t automatically get a drive letter assigned to it and it may not show up on your computer....

Join a Windows XP Computer to a Windows 7/8/10 Homegroup Help older computers find and use it Once you havesetup a homegroup using Windows 7/8/10 on your network, the next step is to fine-tune it so that all the older computers can find each other. All Windows 7 and higher computers will easily be able to join the homegroup by just using the password, but if your network contains computers running older versions of Windows, you’ll have to put them into the same workgroup....

How to Delete the Windows.old folder in Windows 7/8/10 If it’s eating up a chunk of disk space If you have tried upgrading your Windows PC and it has failed a couple of times due to various annoying reasons, you’ve probably come to realize that there is a large chunk of disk space being eaten up by a folder called Windows.old. Windows.old is automatically generated whenever you perform an installation of Windows with a previous version of the OS already installed....

Use Reliability Monitor to Check Windows Stability Very useful when buying a used computer Ever had to purchase a used computer with Windows already installed and wanted to know if the operating system was stable or not? Sometimes with just a cursory look, you won’t be able to tell if Windows is corrupt or having other issues. A quick way to see the state of a Windows machine is to open Reliability Monitor....

Windows 7/8/10 – How to Join a Domain A simple but very important step If you’re adding a new computer to your corporate environment, you’ll most likely need to join it to a domain. The procedure is fairly simple as most of the work is done by the server. The process is also pretty much the same for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. For Windows 10, there is an extra way to join a domain and I’ll mention that down at the bottom....