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

You can change the admin user on a Windows 10 PC through the Control Panel. Changing which users are admins for your Windows 10 machine gives those users control over ...

The built-in Administrator account is disabled by default in Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista. It is disabled to enhance security as this is a common account targeted by hacking scripts and ...

You can add icons to your desktop in Windows 10 and more easily access system folders or apps. When you add icons to your desktop, you create shortcuts to folders or programs such as your Recycle Bin ...

While we all love to keep icons and files on the Desktop for quick access, it results in too much clutter. As Windows changed, it allowed you to hide the desktop icons, so everything looked cleaner.

In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz explains how you can activate and use the real Administrator account in Microsoft Windows 7. As you know, the User Account Control (UAC) ...

In early June, Computerworld published the story, “Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won’t Like About Windows Vista.” At the bottom of page 5 of that story, I wrote that the built-in Administrator account is ...

The Windows Admin Center, formerly known as "Project Honolulu," is a new GUI tool for managing Windows Server. In my last column, I explained how to get the Windows Admin Center up and running, and ...

The built-in Administrator account is one of the most targeted account names by malicious programs and hackers that are attempting to access your computer without your permission. It is therefore a ...