HowToHaven™
Tutorials and guides on how to do various things with your computer
System
"How to" articles on using and customizing your computer and operating system.
- Two Ways to View a Binary File on Windows Without Installing Anything
- How to Get the Hash (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512) of a File on Windows Without Installing Anything
- How to Solve the 0x80092004 Error When Installing a Windows 7 Security-Only/Monthly Update
- How to Boot a CD or DVD in Windows 8.1
- How to Change BIOS Settings on a Computer with Windows 8.1 Installed
- How to Shut Down Windows 8 (Full Shutdown and Normal Hybrid Shutdown)
- How to Set Up a Standard User Account (or Limited Account) on Windows Vista and Windows 7 for Daily Use
- How to Change the Disk Signature of a Drive Without Losing Existing Data or Reformatting
- How to Slipstream Windows XP Service Pack 3 to Create an Integrated XP Setup Disk with SP 3
- How to Back Up Your Hard Disk in Windows
- How to Securely Prepare Your Old Computer for Disposal
- How to Turn Off Volume Shadow Copy in Windows Vista
- How to Work Around the Missing Up Arrow Button in Vista's Windows Explorer
- How to Force Windows Explorer to Always Show You the File Extensions
- How to Create a Bootable Windows XP Setup CD/DVD on a Preinstalled Windows System
- How to Delete Undeletable, Locked, Busy or Currently In-Use Files in Windows
More System "How To" articles...
Multimedia
"How To" articles pertaining to audio, video, music, multimedia and the like.
More Multimedia "How To" articles...
Web Design
Featured Articles
- How to Start/Create Your Own Website
- How to Create a Blog
- How to Register Your Own Domain Name
- How to Create a Search Engine Friendly Website
- Expression Web Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Microsoft Expression Web
- BlueGriffon Tutorial: How to Design a Website with BlueGriffon
- Dreamweaver Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Dreamweaver CS6
- How to Design and Publish Your Website with KompoZer
- How to Choose a Good Domain Name for your Website
- How to Choose a Good Web Host
- How to Accept Credit Cards on Your Website
- How to Make Money From Your Website
What's New
5 April 2023- The "Search This Site" facility (on the left column of every page) should now be working again. I have fixed the issues in the script that caused problems when my web host upgraded their system. Sorry for the inconvenience.
- New page: Two Ways to View a Binary File on Windows Without Installing Anything. This article shows you how to view a binary file, with hexadecimal code and its ASCII equivalent side-by-side, on Windows without having to install a third-party binary/hex viewer.
- For those of you who asked, no, this site isn't dead. It's just one of 3 sites that I maintain, the other two being thesitewizard.com (a site about how you can design a website) and thefreecountry.com (a site about free stuff on the Internet). I try to put new articles and stuff into the relevant site, and since a lot of the new "How To" articles have to do with website-making, they ended up on thesitewizard.com instead of here.
- New page: How to Get the Hash (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512) of a File on Windows Without Installing Anything. Sometimes, when you download a file, the website you get it from also lists its MD5, SHA1, SHA256 and SHA512 hashes, so that you can verify that the file you obtained has not been tampered with or corrupted in transit. This article shows you how you can check those hashes using Windows' built-in programs.
- New page: How to Solve the 0x80092004 Error When Installing a Windows 7 Security-Only/Monthly Update. If you were unable to install the most recent Windows Update (eg, either the security-only or monthly quality one) on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 because of a stop error 0x80092004, this article shows you how to solve it.
- The article on How to Force Windows Explorer to Always Show You the File Extensions has been updated to include information on how to do this on Windows 10 (in addition to the previous versions, such as Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP).
- New page: How to Record a Game Video. If you want to record a video of your game playthrough, either for posting to a video sharing site or to put on your own website, you may be interested in this guide. It shows you how you can set up and use free (and open source) software on your computer to record your gameplay.
- New page: How to Boot a CD or DVD in Windows 8.1. If you have a system with Windows 8.1 preinstalled, you may find that you are unable to boot from a CD/DVD even if you have configured your UEFI/BIOS to do this in preference to your hard disk. This article shows you how to do this.
- New page: How to Change BIOS Settings on a Computer with Windows 8.1 Installed. If you are wondering how you can get into the BIOS Setup screen on a computer that comes with Windows 8.1, here's how to do it.
New Pages on thefreecountry.com
- Free Software to Create Bootable and Multi-Boot USB drives
- Free Video Conferencing Software
- Free Geolocation Services
- Free XML Parser/Generator Libraries
- Free Android Emulators
- Free Social Network / Media Software
- How to Set the Height of a DIV Relative to a Browser Window (CSS)
- How to Give Alternate Rows of a Table a Different Colour (HTML/CSS)
- How to Generate the Free Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate on Your Own (Windows) Computer
- How to Insert Meta Tags into a Web Page with BlueGriffon
- How to Play a Song (or Some Other Audio Clip) from a List on a Website
- How to Restore Expression Web's Design Panel and Layout to its Initial Default State
- How to Draw a Horizontal Line on a Web Page with Expression Web
- How to Create a Website Free of Charge
