Disable the Trackpad/Touchpad on Mac and PC

Disable the Trackpad/Touchpad on Mac and PC It can be annoying when the cursor jumps If you like using a mouse to get work done on your Mac or Windows laptop, then you might find it useful to disable the trackpad or touchpad on your system. This is really useful if you type a lot and the trackpad is located in a spot on your laptop that causes it to always pick up slight movements from your hand while typing....

September 9, 2012 · 3 min · 538 words · Angela West

Device Association Framework High CPU Usage in Windows 10?

Device Association Framework High CPU Usage in Windows 10? We’ll show you how to disable it If you have recently starting using Windows 10, you may have run into an issue where everything starts to run really slow. If you ended up looking at the processes running in Windows 10, you may have noticed a certain process eating up a lot of your CPU. At least that’s what happened to me on one of my Windows 10 machines....

September 8, 2012 · 3 min · 502 words · Sandra Ballard

Create a Custom Windows 7 Install Image

Create a Custom Windows 7 Install Image The easy way with way less hassle Creating a customized Windows 7 image can be accomplished using a few different methods and Microsoft even supplies some tips for creating unique and custom Windows 7 deployments. However, many of these custom imaging methods revolve around straight enterprise structure, which may require several workstations, a master PC and Windows 7 Enterprise edition. For non-enterprise Windows 7 imaging, which will work with all versions of Windows 7, you can use a program called RTse7enLite....

September 7, 2012 · 4 min · 819 words · Paul Mason

Change Default Media Player and Photo Viewer in Windows 8

Change Default Media Player and Photo Viewer in Windows 8 Select the program you want to use I’ve been running Windows 8 for a few weeks now and I recently ran into an issue when trying to play some video files. I take a lot of video from my Panasonic HD camcorder and the files are all .M2TS files, which the Video app in Windows 8 can play, but not Windows Media Player....

September 1, 2012 · 4 min · 641 words · Juan Adams

Turn on Fast Startup Missing in Windows 8/10 Power Options?

Turn on Fast Startup Missing in Windows 8/10 Power Options? Have your PC boot as fast as possible If you have a PC running Windows 8 or Windows 10, you definitely want to make sure your machine is booting as fast as possible. By default, Windows 8/10 enables a feature called Fast Startup or Hybrid Shutdown that can load Windows 8/10 as quickly as 5 seconds on certain hardware. Basically, it performs a partial hibernation of kernel files and device drivers....

August 31, 2012 · 2 min · 341 words · Randall Reynolds
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