NT Lite allows you to create your own version of the Windows Operating System.

Windows Tiny 11 Builder allows you to create a very small Windows 11 ISO file by selecting the parts of the OS that you want. This site shows you how to do it.

Should I Remove It lists programs that are commonly found on Windows devices. Each program description gives a percentage of users that have removed the program safely as an indication of the way the general user feels about that software. Higher percentages indicate bloatware.

Windows 11 Superguide This is the best article about Windows 11 prior to the general rollout in 2022.

How to Install Windows 11 With A Local Account It is not necessary to have a Microsoft account with this work-around.

How to Switch to a Windows 11 Local Account Sign On Windows Home users will probably want to know how to do this since you may have installed Windows 11 with your Windows account. Here are instructions on how to switch to a local account sign on.

How to Install Windows 11 With A Local Account (2023 update) You can install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account. This article shows three ways including a method that uses Rufus to create a bootable installation disc that bypasses the TPM requirement.

How to Install Windows 11 On Older PCs Windows 11 has some stiff requirements that might rule out installation on older PCs. This article shows a simpe trick to get around the TPM lockout issue.

How to Install Windows 11 How to download it, how to check if you can run it, how to install it. Good article.

How to Clean Install Windows 11 This article shows how to install Windows 11 from scratch.

Important Things to Remember Before Clean Installing Windows This 2023 article applies to any version of Windows.

How to Downgrade From Windows 11 Back to Windows 10

How to Activate Windows 11 God Modes

How to Install Windows 11 Without An Internet Connection Among other reasons you might want to this, it allows you to set up Windows 11 using a local account rather than a Windows account.

Simple Secret Windows Shortcuts These are little known, but very useful, shortcuts.

How To Speed Up Windows Startup Boot Process includes tips on how to start up a PC with a timer but mostly focuses on tools that help clean up the start process.

Windows 11 Keyboard Shortcuts - some of these shortcuts may work in earlier versions of Windows.

Microsoft Windows Update History This is a Microsoft site that shows the history of updates that have been released for Windows - because otherwise you have no idea what they are doing with their updates.

TenForums is an excellent forum for Windows issues.

Microsoft Software Download This is the official Microsoft site which has installation guides and information on how to create an installation file on a DVD or USB stick. It allows you to download a copy of Windows as an ISO file which you can then burn to a disk or load on a USB drive.

How To Download an ISO Installation Disk - assumes you have a legit authorization code. This video and article has a link to the Windows Download Tool.

How to Tell If Your PC is Compatible and Eligible for Windows 10 - kind of geeky but useful in specific situations.

How to Install Windows 10 has instructions for upgrading as well as installing over an existing Windows 10 install.

PCWorld's Articles on Windows 10 - good browsing.

ZDNet's Questions and Answers about Windows 10 Installation

How to Upgrade, Install, Reinstall, and Activate Windows 10 is a collection of ZDNet articles on loading and activating Windows 10.

Top Five Areas to Customize After Installing Windows 10

7 Default Windows 10 Settings You Should Check

Windows 10 Customization How to personalize your Windows 10 installation (from MakeUseOf) including how to install and modify Rainmeter.

Icon Files For Windows shows you where you can get icons from dll and exe files delivered with native Windows 10.

How to Personalize Your Windows 10 PC shows how to set up themes and set other options to suit your own taste.

God Modes for Windows 10 God Modes are shortcuts to Windows settings using folders that are specially named. You create the folder, click on it, and huge lists of optional settings appear.

How To Create Bootable Windows PE Disk These are 5 free programs that create a bootable Preinstallation-Environment disk which comes in real handy when Windows doesn't want to boot up.

How to Reset Your Windows 10 Password in case you forgot it or want to change it.

Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcuts direct from Microsoft.

Windows 10 Tips and Tricks from the Windows Club.

Windows 10 Portal for Windows articles from the Windows Club.

How To Do a Clean Install of Windows 10 is a short overview of the process.

How To Do a Clean Install of Windows 10 is a good step-by-step tutorial found on the very excellent TenForums site.

How To Remove the Bloatware from Windows 10 using the PowerShell and DISM, a little known utility built into Windows 10.

How Install Windows 10 Via USB or DVD is an excellent overview of the process (although somewhat outdated since the article was written before Windows 10 was officially released).

PC World Windows 10 Superguide

How to Stop Auto Updating in Windows 10 has a link to a utility download from Microsoft that will allow you to stop the automatic updating function in Windows 10.

Essential Collection of Windows 10 How-to's from Betanews

Windows 10 Guide from CNet

Privacy Settings in Windows 10

God Mode in Windows 10 God Mode is a shortcut to a single list of all of the operating system settings that are available through other multiple Windows tools.

How to Record Video Screen Captures using the Game DVR tool in Windows 10.

Task View and Virtual Desktops using the new features in Windows 10.

How to Retain Some Privacy In Windows 10

How to Kill WiFi Sharing In Windows 10

How to Boot Automatically to Tablet Mode In Windows 10

How to Remove the OneDrive Icon In Windows 10 File Explorer

How to Replace Your Microsoft Account with a Local Login Account in Windows 10

How to Create a Windows Local Login Account

How to Change the Look of Windows 10 Desktop

Windows 10 Essential Guide

How to Remove Cortana, Edge, Contact Support, and Standard Apps

Windows CMD Commands These used to be known as DOS command line instructions. Now called CMD Command Prompt commands.

15 Windows CMD Commands Every Windows User Should Know This is a set of little known but highly useful commands. Assoc sets file associations more easily than doing it through the Windows gui process.

How To Customize the Windows Command Window

Windows 10 Shell Commands - most are applicable in Windows 8x also. These are shortcuts executed from the Run window.

Intro to Windows 10 PowerShell is a very good introduction to the new scripting language.

Windows 10 PowerShell Cheat Sheet has a pdf cheat sheet as well as some basic command tutorials.

Most Useful PowerShell Commands This is a brief intro to PowerShell and explains useful commands. Good place to start using PS commands.

Windows PowerShell ISE Explained The PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment is where one can create multi-line cmdlets (similar to the old DOS Bat files but more powerful).

25 Useful Windows Command Prompt Tricks

How to Fix a Corrupted Windows 10 Installation - short how-to on System File Checker, DISM, Windows Troubleshooters, and Reinstallation of Windows.

Five Free Tools to Help Fix Problems In Windows 10 This is a very impressive group of freeware. Well worth downloading most of these tools just in case.

Beginners Guide to PC Backup

Windows 10 Backup and Recovery Tools is a pretty good explaination of all of the confusing backup options that you have in Windows 10.

Ultimate Windows 10 Backup Guide covers all of the different, but similar enough to be confusing, backup processes available in Windows 10.

How to Backup Your Windows Computer Automatically This LifeHacker article (2020) explains how to set up automatic backups as well as how to restore files from those backups.

How to Make a Full Backup of Windows 10 This article shows you how to do a full backup. The article includes a section on how to recover the backup.

How to Restore Image Backups in Windows 7, 8, and 10 The article includes links to how to create the image backup and has links to other related issues.

How to Use Controlled Folder Access in Windows 10. This lets you prevent programs from changing files in specified folders unless you whitelist the program. Good virus/ransomeware protection.

How to Use BitLocker on Windows Although there are ways to enable the policy editor on the Home version of Windows, they are much too complicated to be worthwhile. This article is useful for others who have access to a version of Windows that supports the Policy Editor.

How to Use Controlled Folder Access in Windows 10. This lets you prevent programs from changing files in specified folders unless you whitelist the program. Good virus/ransomware protection.

How to Reinstall Windows 10 Without Losing Your Data

How to Reinstall Windows 10 From Scratch

Ultimate Guide to Reinstalling Windows from Scratch - LifeHacker article (2019)

How to Copy Current Windows Installation to SSD (2020) article shows how to copy your entire Windows installation to an SSD. Useful for backups and for replacement of an existing system disk with a new SSD.

How to Fix Corrupted Windows with sfc Command

How to Move Windows 10 From an Old PC to a New One

Windows 10 Tweaking Programs - good overview of programs that allow you to customize the look and feel of Windows 10.

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts is applicable to all versions of Windows and most Microsoft programs. This is a great collection of quick keyboard commands.

How to Install Ubuntu Using A USB Drive includes some instruction on setting up a dual boot environment.

How to Edit the Dual Boot Menu If you ever set up a dual boot computer so you can use Windows and Linux on the same machine, there is a dual boot menu that is added and which appears when you boot up your computer. This is an article on manually editing it when you (or things that you do like update your Windows partition) make changes to the operating systems.

How to Safely Uninstall Ubuntu from a Dual Boot Environment It is not as easy as you might think.

How to Install Ubuntu Server in less than 30 minutes. 2023 article.

5 Free Tools that Fix Windows 10 Problems

How to Password Protect a Windows Folder

Windows 10 Taskbar Customization - an article from the MakeUseOf folks.

How to Remove Windows 10 Apps This article shows you how to use Powershell commands to remove the unwanted apps that Microsoft loads with the standard install of Windows 10.

How to Make Windows 10 Look Like Windows 7 This solution uses freeware called Open Shell which must be installed before proceeding. The article shows you how to tweak Windows 10 so that it looks and works more like Windows 7 and Windows 8.

How to Remotely Troubleshoot A PC using Quick Assist, included in all versions of Windows 10. It allows you to help troubleshoot another PC by remotely controlling it.

How to Remotely Access a Windows PC From iOS or Android - limited to your local home network.

Five Free Windows 8 eBooks These are free, PDF formatted books which you can download.

Getting Started with Windows 8 Webcast is a 60 minute video intro to Windows 8 sponsored by O'Reilly.

50 Windows 8 Tips and Tricks from TechRadar.

Windows 8 Shortcuts and Tricks from Techspot.

How Not to Get Lost In Windows 8 is a nice intro to Windows 8 from LifeHacker.

Beginners Guide to Windows 8 from the Windows Club group.

A Beginners Guide to Windows 8 is a very sparse, easy to read Web page. A good, quick-start guide.

How to Banish Metro from Your Windows 8 PC has some interesting tricks including how to boot directly to the desktop.

How to Create a Windows 8 Recovery Drive - easy to do, great to have around when disaster strikes and Windows decides not to work anymore.

How to Upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1

How to Make Windows 8.1 More Tolerable on a Desktop

Create Windows 8 Media is a Microsoft site that allows you to download and create a backup copy of Windows 8. You still need your product activation key.

How to Sideload Apps in Windows 8 and 10 Sideloading apps is possible without getting the app from the Microsoft store.

How to Use a More Private Local Account on Windows 8.1 instead of using a Microsoft account.

Best Apps for Windows 8 as recommended by MakeUseOf.

Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

Windows 7 Forum

Annoyances covers all of the Microsoft operating systems.

Windows 7 Libraries covers one of Windows 7 features.

Windows 7 Shortcuts Master List

SevenForums - Windows 7 forums.

How-To Geek Windows 7 has a bunch of how-to's.

Lytebyte has a bunch of quick tips on Windows and Windows software.

Tweaking Windows 7 is a collection of articles about tweaking and customizing Windows 7.

Sharing Folders in Windows 7 using the Shared Folders wizard.

15 Simple Windows Shortcuts - applicable to Windows 8 also. These are excellent time savers.

15 CMD Commands Every Windows User Should Know from the MakeUseOf folks.

Command Line Commands is a pretty large list of commands that can be executed from the command line.

Windows RUN Commands is a pretty large list of commands that can be executed from RUN window.

How to Create a Windows Repair Disc on a USB Drive - usually, Windows will not allow you to create a Repair Disc on a USB drive but this article shows you how to do it.

Microsoft Support

Windows 2000/XP/.NET Resources

104 Great Tech Tips is a beginner's guide but one where anyone will find something interesting.

XP Tweaks has tweaks for XP.

TweakXP has tweaks for XP.

LabMice.net has a great deal of useful info on XP including a lot of links to Microsoft stuff.

Kelly's Korner has tweaks for XP including registry edits for XP

Brian's Buzz Search is a specialized search engine that looks through a preselected group of sites for information related to Windows.

Windows IT Pro FAQ has a very good collection of Q&A on Windows.

Dr Watson - how to use the Dr. Watson program in Windows to debug crashes and shutdowns.

XP Registry Tweaks - hundreds of them.

What Slows Down Windows Startup is a great list of programs and utilities that slow down the startup of Windows. Very high on the list is 1000 fonts.

How to Install Windows XP Daniel Petri's Knowledgebase.

How to Use a Chromebook - 2019 PCWorld article is a good beginning.

Top Chromebooks in 2019 as determined by TechRadar.

Chromebook Buying Advice (2019)

Recover the Chrome OS This is a Google Support article - useful when things go bad.

Laptop vs Chromebook is a useful comparison of the two types of portable computers.

How to Use a Chromebook to Remote Access Your Desktop Both computers need to run the Chrome browser and use the same Google account signon.

How to Remote Access a Chromebook from a Windows Computer Both computers need to run the Chrome browser and exchange an access code.

Use Chrome Remote Desktop to Access Your Computer Anywhere This tutorial includes a brief discussion of the security issues.

Chrome Remote Desktop Review This Lifewire article is both a tutorial and review of the app.

Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Vista

Windows-Now aggregates Windows blogs

Vista Forums

Vista Tweaks - from the How-To Geek.

PC Drivers Headquarters

WinDrivers has drivers for Windows.

Windows95 Tips and Tricks collected from users.

ZDNet

Frank Condron's Windows95 Drivers

Cursors This site has a bunch of animated and regular cursor files that you can download.

ShortcutWorld.com has keyboard shortcuts for all kinds of software.

RegEdit.com has stuff associated with editing and repairing the registry (yikes!).

Windows Help.net has tips for Windows 98.

Bud Allen's Troubleshooting Site includes an index of articles on the Microsoft Support site, an index of programs available on the Windows 98 disk in the Reskit, etc.

Computer Geek shows you how to make a Windows 98 book disk, among other things.

WinMD is mostly about hacking the Windows registry. There is a forum so you can so what others are doing.

Hardware Update will read your Windows system and tell you what needs to be updated. Sponsored by Microsoft.

FixWindows offers troubleshooting advice through the use of flowcharts for all versions of Windows.

Computing.net Forums offers forums for each Windows operating system.

Windows Reinstall - step-by-step instructions for reinstalling Windows.

Windows Updates

Brian's Buzz Search is a specialized search engine that looks through a preselected group of sites for information related to Windows.

Windows Support Center has a lot of info on Windows tweaks.

Daniel Petri's Knowledgebase - extensive collection of tips related to all levels of Windows, ADS, DNS, routing, networking, etc.

PaperBits is an excellent NT support site.

NT Tips and Registry Hacks

Dale's NT FAQ

NTWare has freeware culled from various sites.

BackOffice

Microsoft's BackOffice Site

NT Registry Hacks has tips and tricks on how to tweak NT.

Search NT is an NT topics search engine.

Windows 2000 Supersite hosted by Windows 2000 Magazine.

Win 2000 Security

John Savill's Windows NT/2000 FAQ This is a pretty good site.

The Linux Documentation Project

Its FOSS Free and Open Source Software seems to have a lot of info on Linux along with occassional info on other free and open source software. The site has a busy community forum and a newsletter you can sign up.

How To Install Ubuntu Linux This is a very good installation how-to article (2023) especially for those who are new to the Linux installation process.

How To Install Linux On An Old Laptop The article applies to new laptops also.

Ask Ubuntu Very busy Ubuntu Linux community forum.

OMG Ubuntu This basically is a blog that discusses the hot and new news related to Ubuntu and other Linux distros.

TecMint A beginner friendly guide to Linux. The site has a great newsletter that periodically sends you how-to's that are very useful.

Beginners Guide to Linux This is a MakeUseOf article that is a good overview of issues for beginners.

Websites for Linux Users News, tips, tricks, etc. There are some gems in this article from MakeUseOf.

How to Make the Switch From Windows to Linux has pretty good instructions for how to get and load Linux. Written with the Windows user in mind.

How to Use Linux to Fix a Windows System This is a great article that shows how to create a bootable version of Linux on a USB memory stick. Once you have Linux running, you can use it to recover Windows passwords, move files off the computer to a backup disk, run antivirus software on it, etc.

How to Get Started With Linux - 2017 article that includes how to create a bootable and portable USB drive. Very good intro.

11 Must Have Apps After a Fresh Ubuntu Install This 2019 article goes over the best apps to load, and how to load them.

How To Install Linux Mint From USB Drive This 2023 article is very clear and has links to related subjects such as how to partition a dual boot set up and what to load after you get Linux running.

5 Commands Linux Newbies Should Know includes beginner level discussions of sudo, ls, apt, and man.

20 Useful Apt-Get Commands for Ubuntu package management.

How To Save Money Using Linux is a general article on the benefits of using Linux.

Shell-Fu is a site that collects useful Linux shell commands.

LinuxLinks has a large collection of links to Linux software.

7 Top Linux Environments as of August, 2015.

Comparison of Linux Distros 10 Linux versions are compared by How-To Geek.

Top Linux Distros from DistroWatch - best site for distro info.

10 Best Linux Distros from TechRadar (2022).

Recent Linux Distros and what kind of user would benefit from them. 2017 article.

Best Linux Distros - 2018 article.

Recent Linux Distros and what kind of user would benefit from them. (2017)

8 Lightweight Distros for lightweight machines.

6 Lightweight Linux Distributions for Older PCs

Best Linux Distros for Beginners - from PCWorld - suggestions for the best versions of Linux for those just starting the adventure.

unetbootin is Windows freeware that helps you load a linux distro on to a USB drive. You can select a distro to load from within the program or you can use an ISO file of your own creation.

Universal USB Linux Installer is Windows freeware that helps you load a linux distro on to a USB drive.

Rufus is Windows freeware that helps you load a linux distro on to a USB drive.

How to Install Linux Mint From a USB Drive includes instructions on how to get the Mint distro onto the USB drive.

How to Install Ubuntu Using USB Drive includes some instruction on setting up a dual boot environment.

How to Edit the Dual Boot Menu If you ever set up a dual boot computer so you can use Windows and Linux on the same machine, there is a dual boot menu that is added and which appears when you boot up your computer. This is an article on editing it when you make changes to the operating systems.

How to Safely Uninstall Ubuntu from a Dual Boot Environment is not as easy as you might think.

How to Install Linux Ubuntu to a USB Drive so that you have a complete Linux environment on a portable USB drive. The process involves booting from a USB drive with Linux installed on it, reformatting and partitioning a USB drive, and then finalizing the Linux install on the USB drive itself.

How To Install Ubuntu Linux Clear instructions on how to clean install Linux (Ubuntu).

Very Small Linux Distros in case you want to install Linux on an old machine.

Ubuntu Installation Guide – has instructions for creating a Linux boot disk, finding software and loading it, etc.

Linux Root Directories - nice, short descriptions of the working root directories and the files they contain.

Linux Cheat Sheet - Linux commands.

Getting Started with Linux is an introductory forum on Linux. There are three sections for beginner, intermediate, and advannced users.

Linux.com is a hub for Linux information.

Linux Guide for Beginners is a nice tutorial on Linux. Contains a comparison of DOS and Linux.

Linux Alternative Project is a collection of free software for Linux based machines that are the equivalent of Windows software.

Best Linux Software is a list of software applications that can replace the industrial strength apps for little or no cost.

How to Install A VPN on Ubuntu Linux

How To Open A Website As A Web App - This tutorial shows you how to set up a Website as a Web App in Linux. This allows you to click on the app and open the Web site in a new browser window minus the menu accoutrements. This window is now processing independent of your main browser window.

Intro to Cygwin Cygwin is a program that lets you run Unix commands in a Windows environment.

Best Linux Software (2018) - recommended by MakeUseOf - pretty good list.

Vim Cheat Sheet Vim is the ubiquitous text editor available from the command line on most Linux installs.

5 Bash Script Examples shows you what scripting in Linux looks like (similar to Windows batch files but more powerful).

Chris DeHerrera's Windows CE Website first stop for info on Windows CE operating system for handhelds.

Dave's IPaq - great site - lot of forum activity.

PocketPC Magazine has news, rumors, articles, reviews, etc.

PocketPC Tools - hardware and software reviews, software, tips, forums

IPaqHQ - news, rumors, reviews, etc.

PDA Street - news, software, tips, etc.

PPC4You - collection of top Pocket PC sites.

InfoSync World - reviews, news, advice, etc.

IPaq Capabilities - reviews, news, advice, etc.

Pocket PC Guide - good intro material to IPaq - includes some software suggestions.

uBook is a free ebook reader. Site also has info on ebooks.

ebookmall sells ebooks for laptops and handhelds.

How To Set Up Home Assistant On Raspberry Pi

Useful Raspberry Pi Projects

20 Awesome Raspberry Pi Projects Anyone Can Do (2023) article suggests 20 projects that anyone can do as long as they are Raspberry Pi literate.