Windows Tools, Help & Guides

In this guide, you’ll learn how to set up WordPress on your local WAMP server.

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

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If you would like to build your own website, you can do it on your own computer without putting it online. This can be useful for a number of reasons:

1. You don’t have your own web hosting to test with
2. You want to test a website before you put it online
3. You want to start a website that helps you organize your life, for example, but you don’t always have access to the internet

In this guide, you’ll learn how to set up Apache, MySQL, and PHP on your computer. This will be the base for your website and will create an environment for you to develop in.

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For the next week, I’m going to run a series of guides that will help you build and run a website on your Windows machine.

If you would like to build your own website, you can do it on your own computer without putting it online. This can be useful for a number of reasons:

1. You don’t have your own web hosting but you want the experience of complete access
2. You want to test a website before you put it online
3. You want to start a website that helps you organize your life, for example, but you don’t always have access to the internet

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Office 2007 comes with a utility named Groove and I assume you already know that because you’re reading this guide. Learn how to remove it below.

I have no need for Groove, which syncs your documents for collaboration with others. If you have no need for this, you can do either of the following: remove Groove completely or remove references to the groove in Windows Explorer.

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If you are like me and never use Windows Messenger, you may want to remove it. In this guide, you’ll learn how to remove Windows Messenger from Windows XP.

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If you are running Windows XP and want your system to look more like Windows 7, then this guide is for you. Vishal Gupta, Microsoft MVP at askvg.com has made a simple installer to change Windows XP, visually, into Windows 7. His instructions are clear and simple, so head on over and learn how to make Windows XP look like Windows 7.

Below is a screenshot of my XP desktop with the first stage of the transformation. I think it looks really good and you can have this effect too.

Transfrom Windows XP to Windows 7 without Using a Transformation Pack