HowToHaven™
Tutorials and guides on how to do various things with your computer
System
"How to" articles on using and customizing your computer and operating system.
- How to Shut Down Windows 8 (Full Shutdown and Normal Hybrid Shutdown)
- How to Set Up a Standard User Account (or Limited Account) on Windows Vista and Windows 7 for Daily Use
- How to Change the Disk Signature of a Drive Without Losing Existing Data or Reformatting
- How to Slipstream Windows XP Service Pack 3 to Create an Integrated XP Setup Disk with SP 3
- How to Back Up Your Hard Disk in Windows
- How to Securely Prepare Your Old Computer for Disposal
- How to Turn Off Volume Shadow Copy in Windows Vista
- How to Work Around the Missing Up Arrow Button in Vista's Windows Explorer
- How to Customize the Sherpya XPE for Your Windows Rescue CD (BartPE Disk)
- How to Force Windows Explorer to Always Show You the File Extensions
- FAQ for How to Create a Windows XP Setup CD for a Windows-Preloaded System
- How to Create an Emergency Windows Rescue CD
- How to Create a Bootable Windows XP Setup CD/DVD on a Preinstalled Windows System
- How to Delete Undeletable, Locked, Busy or Currently In-Use Files in Windows
- How to Perform a Full Manual Defragmentation of Your Hard Disk Under Windows Vista
More System "How To" articles...
Multimedia
"How To" articles pertaining to audio, video, music, multimedia and the like.
More Multimedia "How To" articles...
Web Design
Featured Articles
- How to Start/Create Your Own Website: The A-Z Guide
- How to Register Your Own Domain Name
- How to Create a Search Engine Friendly Website
- Dreamweaver Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Dreamweaver CS6
- Dreamweaver CS5.5 Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Dreamweaver CS 5.5
- Dreamweaver CS5 Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Dreamweaver CS5
- BlueGriffon Tutorial: How to Create a Website with the BlueGriffon Free Web Editor
- How to Design and Publish Your Website with KompoZer
- How to Choose a Good Domain Name for your Website
- How to Choose a Good Web Host
- How to Accept Credit Cards on Your Website
- How to Make Money From Your Website
- How to Improve Your Search Engine Ranking on Google
- Which Web Host Do You Recommend?
What's New
3 June 2013- The article How to Force Windows Explorer to Always Show You the File Extensions has been updated for Windows 8.
- New page: How to Shut Down Windows 8 (Full Shutdown and Normal Hybrid Shutdown). Can't figure out how to shut down Windows 8? Or perhaps you really want Windows 8 to do a full shutdown and not the partial hibernation that it currently does when you invoke "Shut down". This article shows you how to do these things.
- Another frequently asked question has been added to the FAQ for How to Create a Windows XP Setup CD for a Windows-Preloaded System. This one deals with the error message from the service pack updater about not being able to work with a destination that already has integrated software updates.
- New page: How to Set Up a Standard User Account (or Limited Account) on Windows Vista and Windows 7 for Daily Use. Set up and use a standard user account for your daily activities (Internet surfing, etc) instead of working from an administrator account (which can put your computer at greater risk should anything go wrong). This article also shows you how you can quickly and easily move your existing settings into that standard user account (so that you don't have to reconfigure everything all over again).
- New page: How to Change the Disk Signature of a Drive Without Losing Existing Data or Reformatting. If you've received an error from Windows saying "This disk is offline because it has a signature collision with another disk", or if you've tried to connect a disk to your system and found that Windows refused to recognize it even though you knew the disk was working properly, read this article to find out one way to solve it.
- Minor updates to the How to Create a Bootable Windows XP Setup CD/DVD on a Preinstalled Windows System article to address a common user error.
- New page: How to Slipstream Windows XP Service Pack 3 to Create an Integrated XP Setup Disk with SP 3. Now that service pack 3 for XP is released, how do you go about integrating it into your existing XP setup disk, so that when you next install XP, you will automatically have a system with XP SP 3? This guide shows you how.
New Pages on thefreecountry.com
- Free Start Menus for Windows 8
- Free PHP Compilers: compile PHP scripts to native code, .NET or Java bytecode
- Free Embedded Web Video Player Scripts/Code
- Free Image/Photo Slide Show JavaScript
- Free 3D Software Box Image Makers
- Dreamweaver Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Dreamweaver CS6
- BlueGriffon Tutorial: How to Create a Website with the BlueGriffon Free Web Editor
- How to Reserve a Domain Name. Do You Need a Web Host if You Want to Reserve a Domain for Future Use?
- HTML Tutorial - Learn to Design a Website using HTML
- Should I Learn HTML or Just Use a WYSIWYG Web Editor? Pros and Cons of Using a Visual Web Editor vs Learning HTML
- How to Rescue Your Website from the Clutches of a Bad Web Designer or Bad Web Host
- How to Created Rounded Corners for Your Box Borders in CSS
- How to Add a CAPTCHA Test to Your Feedback Form Script: Reducing Spam in Your Contact Form
