It’s been a while since I’ve gathered up Windows tips for you. I know, I’ve been remiss. So this week I’ve got a great tip on fine-tuning Windows Vista and 7’s AutoPlay settings, and I help a reader ...

Your taskbar icons are trying to tell you something. Here’s what the most common ones—and their variations—really mean.

You can set up your USB drive so that it automatically runs a program when you plug it into a Microsoft Windows XP SP2 computer, and so it will display a custom icon next to its name in Windows ...

I’m a Windows XP person. My only copy of Vista, until recently, was virtual and one that, for whatever reason, doesn’t support USB devices. Thus, when I wrote recently about disabling Autorun and ...

Select Devices > AutoPlay. In the AutoPlay settings, toggle off the switch to Off. How to disable or enable Autoplay on Windows 8.1? Open the Start menu by clicking on the Windows icon on the taskbar.

The default icon storage location in Windows 10 or 11 is basically within the computer's 'local disk.' Next, click on the 'Windows' folder in the local disk. The DLL file in 'System32' in the 'Windows ...

In order to address the disorderly way most people catalogue their data, Windows 7 introduced a new system that let's users point a Library to various folders (Pictures or Documents, for example). All ...