Social games are trending. If you are transitioning from hardcore to casual gamer, you might want to try Margaritaville Online, a social game on Facebook that is the most extensive game for the “platform”.

For some actions in Windows 8 you need elevated rights (admin rights). Here’s how you would open cmd with admin rights.

This tutorial should be a basic guide to show you how to restart services in Windows 7 and 8.

If you get this error “Volume shadow copy service error unexpected error deviceiocontrol” then here’s the fix.

Shadow copies (you might know it from the backup service) can occupy a lot of disk space, here’s how you can delete them and free up some of that much needed space.

If you are bored of downloading tools like SiSoft Sandra to check your system specs, use the built-in Windows 8 tools that give you a lot of useful information.

If you want to use the system restore feature, you should first enable AND properly configure it.

The most recent versions of Windows (Vista, 7, 8) all support a feature called “previous versions” that allow you to restore files to an earlier state. However, you first have to enable it.