Windows Tools, Help & Guides

Dishant has written a helpful post, on adding a ‘Delete Folder Contents’ to the right-click context menu, on Windows Forums.

This guide works for Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Thanks Dishant!

The Windows Vista Aero interface is very stylish and I use it despite the extra ram required for it to run. The clear glass color can become a little boring after sometime, so Microsoft included the option to change the color of your interface. Learn, in this guide, how to change the color of your Windows using the Aero interface.

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For the next week, I’m going to run a series of guides that will help you customize your desktop and start menu on your Windows Vista machine.

These guides come from the ‘Windows Vista – Customization Manual’ [Download a copy now]. The customization manual runs over the basics of customizing your Windows Vista machine to make it more personal. This guide is free of charge to all www.mintywhite.com readers.

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In this guest post, Angela explores how to hide Windows updates. Learn more about Angela at the conclusion of this post.

Recently, I was offered an update from Windows that I didn’t need. The update was tagged “Optional” and was for Office Live add-in. It wasn’t important or critical, and I’m not sure why the update was even offered.

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There are many free fonts available online; to install a new font (note: if you’re an XP user, scroll down to the XP Method Section):

1. Download a font
   If the font file is in a .zip archive, right click the file and click Extract
2. Right click on the font file and click Install

Install a New Font – Method 2

To install a font through the font manager, do the following:

1. Download a font
   If the font file is in a .zip archive, right click the file and click Extract
   
2. Click the Start button, type font, and click on Fonts
3. Drag the font file into the Font manager

XP Method

For Windows XP users:

1. Download a font
   If the font file is in a .zip archive, right click the file and click Extract
2. Open C:\Windows\Fonts
3. Drag the font file to the Fonts folder:

Enjoy your new fonts.

This guide is included as part of the Windows Guides security and administration series. In this guide, you will learn what the Group Policy Editor is and how to access and configure it.

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