More Windows How-To

• 26 October 2011

• How-Tos: How to create a picture slideshow in Windows Media Player

  Windows has its own integrated media player that allows you to listen to music or view digital photos and videos stored on your PC.

• 25 October 2011

• How-Tos: How to display pictures while listening to music in Windows Media Centre

  Windows Media Centre, which was first introduced in Vista and given a new user-interface and improved functions in Windows 7, is a media player designed to bring music, pictures and even digital TV and movies to one location on a Windows PC

• 24 October 2011

• How-Tos: How to burn digital music files to a CD in Windows Media Player

  As well as allowing you to listen to music stored on your PC, Windows Media Player, the media player that's integrated into Microsoft's Windows operating system, also enables PC users to burn these digital tracks to CD, providing your machine has a CD writer.

• 20 October 2011

• How-Tos: How to create and listen to playlists in Windows Media Centre

  We've already shown you how to create and listen to playlists of digital music in Windows Media Player, but if you've got a machine running Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can also use Windows Media Centre.

• 18 October 2011

• How-Tos: How to create music playlists in Windows Media Player

  Windows has its own intergrated media player that allows you to listen to music stored on your PC.

• 13 October 2011

• How-Tos: How to download and try Windows 8 for free

  We explain how to prepare for an upgrade to Windows 8, and get to grips with Microsoft's new 'Metro' touchscreen interface.

• 11 October 2011

• How-Tos: How to reinstall Windows

  Your PC keeps locking up and nothing in tech support or online forums suggest fixes the problem. It may be time to reinstall Windows. We provide a simple guide, plus advice on how to avoid future disasters.

• 10 October 2011

• How-Tos: Problems dual-booting Windows 7 and XP

  You're running Windows 7 and Windows XP on a single PC, but keep getting told that there is no free disk space. Our Helproom Expert advises.

• How-Tos: Make your computer read out documents

  If you have poor eyesight and need to have documents and web pages read out to you, our Helproom Expert can help.

• 07 October 2011

• How-Tos: How to install Vista on a friend's PC

  There's a right way and a wrong way to install Windows on a friend's PC or laptop, as our Helproom Expert explains.

• 06 October 2011

• How-Tos: How to solve memory compatibility or timing issues

  If every time you boot your PC you see the dreaded Blue Screen of Death, you need our Helproom Expert's advice.

• 03 October 2011

• How-Tos: How to program software

  We introduce you to the secrets of computer programming and show you how to create PC programs from scratch

• How-Tos: How to fix a BSoD that happens before you can boot into Safe Mode

  After altering Msconfig settings on his Windows PC, a reader began experiencing the Blue Screen of Death. Trouble is, how do you change such settings, when the BSoD happens before the option to boot into Safe Mode.

• 26 September 2011

• How-Tos: 9 Easy and Powerful Windows 7 Registry Tweaks

  What is the Windows Registry? Think of it as the "brains" of your Windows installation. Specifically, it's a giant warehouse, a single, easy-to-access, hierarchical database that stores each of your system's settings (and a ton of additional information). Without it, your Windows computer is little more than a paperweight. Mess it up, and you have a big problem on your hands. However, if you understand what you're doing with the Registry, you can tweak pretty much any Windows parameter you wish.

• 19 September 2011

• How-Tos: How to stop your PC's Windows clock losing time

  Does your PC keep perfect time? If not, our Helproom Expert's advice is for you.

• How-Tos: Help! I can't view PDFs on web pages

  A reader wrote to tell us she was having trouble viewing PDFs from web pages. Our Helproom Expert explained how to solve this issue that affects Windows 7 64bit.

• 08 September 2011

• How-Tos: How to configure Windows Explorer in Windows 7

  A reader wrote to tell us he doesn't like Windows Explorer in Windows 7, and asking if he could use it in a Windows XP mode. Our Helproom expert told him how to configure Windows Explorer so it works just the way you want.

• How-Tos: Upgrading from XP to Windows 7

  A reader wrote to us asking how to install Windows 7 on an additional partition of his Windows XP PC, access all data from both operating systems, and then delete XP without losing anything. Unfortunately, as our Helproom Expert explains, it's not that simple.

• 07 September 2011

• How-Tos: Help! Windows Vista won't update

  A reader found they couldn't update their Windows Vista PC to SP2. Our Helproom Expert diagnosed the problem, and offered a solution.

• 06 September 2011

• How-Tos: How to find and replace a missing video codec

  A reader wrote to us complaining that she couldn't get video files to play in Windows Media Player. Our Helproom expert diagnosed a missing codec, and set about solving the problem.

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