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Windows 7: How to Uninstall Windows Live Messenger

Contributed by shamanstears on March 12, 2010 under Microsoft Windows 7

If you have moved away from using the Windows Live Messenger application and want to uninstall it, you will notice that there is no standalone listed to uninstall the app. Here are the steps to follow to rid your computer of Windows Live Messenger.

Windows 7: How to Access All Control Panel Tasks from a Single Window

Contributed by shamanstears on January 17, 2010 under Microsoft Windows 7

Control Panel allows you to perform various tasks on your Windows 7 system, but these tasks are contained beneath their parent category. Instead of having to click various categories to find the desired task, you can access all Control Panel tasks in a single window, allowing you to easily find what you are looking for.

Windows 7: How to Easily Take Ownership of a System File or Folder

Contributed by shamanstears on January 4, 2010 under Microsoft Windows 7

Normally, taking ownership of a system file or folder can be a bit of a pain, taking numerous steps that can be a major inconvenience. If you do a great deal of tweaking to your system, you are bound to run into an instance where you need to take ownership of a system file to accomplish the tweak. By adding a Take Ownership command to the Explorer context (right-click) menu you will make taking ownership of a file a piece of cake.

Windows 7: Disable the Windows Live Mail Splash Screen

Contributed by shamanstears on January 3, 2010 under Microsoft Windows 7

If you’re tired of seeing the splash screen for Windows Live Mail every time you run the application, follow these steps to get around it and be splash screen free.

Windows 7: Prevent Automatic Reboot After Windows Updates are Installed

Contributed by shamanstears on December 29, 2009 under Microsoft Windows 7

After Windows Updates are installed, your computer will be forced to reboot. This can be inconvenient if you are running other applications at the time. You can prevent this from happening by making a change to your registry.

Windows 7: Disable Hibernate Mode to Free Up Disk Space

Contributed by shamanstears on December 20, 2009 under Microsoft Windows 7

Hibernate Mode saves your current session to the hard drive and turns off your computer, allowing you to return to that session when you come out of Hibernate. If you don’t use Hibernate mode on your Windows 7 computer, you can free up some disk space by disabling it.

Windows 7: How to Prevent the Mouse from Waking your PC

Contributed by shamanstears on December 17, 2009 under Microsoft Windows 7

It never fails, you finally get your PC off to sleep (mode) and you accidentally bump your mouse. Your computer is wide awake again and you have to go through all the steps again to put it back in sleep mode. By changing the default setting on your mouse, you can disable the device’s ability to wake your sleeping computer.

Outlook 2010: How To Prevent the New Mail Desktop Alert from Appearing

Contributed by shamanstears on December 13, 2009 under Microsoft Outlook

By default, Outlook 2010 automatically pops up a Desktop Alert to show part of a new message that has just been received. To prevent others from viewing your incoming e-mail, you can disable it.