Free Computer Tips, Tricks and Information

What can you do in case you have forgotten the password of the administrator account of your Windows XP computer? The following steps explain what to do.

I bought a Linksys WRT54G router in order to have Wifi access for my laptop at home. I was having a hard time installing this router, because I was not able to login at the web-interface of the router via my internet browser.

I suspected that the router I bought, was returned to the shop by another customer (also because the packaging was a little damaged) and that the password was altered. The standard username - password combination as described in the instructions was not working. Off course I was using the standard i.p. address, so I typed in my browser just:

192.168.1.1

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Programming software and learning to program is very challenging and not always easy. In order to assist software developers, software development enviroments are getting more user friendly as the years go by. This is essential as the complexity of programming itself - on the contrary - is increasing over the years.

PicaJet Photo Manager helps you automatically manage 1000s of your digital photos in seconds. It's impossible to list all the features that PicaJet offers here.

I was working with PicaJet today, and I must say it's a very useful program for managing a photo collection. Adding categories is very easy. You can also make pictures with your webcam and import the picture in PicaJet right away. The user-interface is smooth and clean. Click here for a screenshot.

Acronis True Image Home 2009 is the perfect solution for making reliable backups of your computer. The user-friendly interface makes it very easy to use and therefore it's the ideal solution for the home user.

Acronis True Image Home 2009 is an award-winning backup and recovery solution for a good reason: it protects your PC after just one click and allows you to recover from viruses, unstable software downloads, and failed hard drives. Create an exact copy of your PC and restore it from a major failure in minutes, or back up important files and recover them even faster. Click here for a screenshot.

See how to maintain, optimize, upgrade and repair any computer using detailed articles with video. See step by step repair steps of such components as the hard-, dvd- and zip drives. Learn how to speed up and home network your computer.

See how to quickly solve hardware and software problems. The PC Repair set comes on 7 multimedia cdroms with detailed videos, presentations, photos, and articles to both explain and show you how to troubleshoot, maintain, upgrade and optimze any desktop computer.

In case you're having networking TCP/IP problems and want to troubleshoot it, you can use several commands at the command prompt in order to figure out where the problem is.

You can go to the command prompt by clicking on 'Start' and then 'Run' and then type:

cmd

First of all you can use the ipconfig command, which will allow you to determine your the local IP address of your computer and the IP address of the gateway (or your router):

ipconfig

or

ipconfig /all