Almost everybody knows at least one Windows Key shortcut: Simply press the Windows Key () and the Start menu opens, ready for you to launch a program with a click of the mouse. Yet, Windows comes with about 30 other Windows Key shortcuts, where you hold down the Windows Key and press a single letter […]

Q: I keep my song files in a single folder, listed in alphabetical order. I play them with Media Player 11, which came with Windows 7. Some music files have the same title, but performed by different artists. To avoid duplicate file names, I added the name of the artist or group in parentheses, like […]

Q: I want to mirror my hard drive on an external hard drive. On page 237 of Windows 7 For Dummies, your book says “the  [Backup and Restore] program also creates a system image – an exact copy of the drive Windows 7 lives on.” Is this what I want? A: Windows 7’s Backup and […]

Q: I have a real dummy question. If I press Ctrl+S, how do I retrieve the material that I saved? A: Holding down the Ctrl key and pressing the letter “s” is one of many Windows shortcut keys. Shortcut keys are time savers, letting you keep your fingers on the keyboard while working, rather than […]

Q: Every time my children download and install a program, that program’s icon appears on my desktop, as well as their own desktop. Their icons appear my Start menu, too. How can I prevent this from happening? A: Your kids are probably installing programs that automatically install themselves for all account holders of the PC […]