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Help For Machine Embroidery With ALL Versions Of Windows
Using Windows for machine embroidery?
Videos and articles to teach you the skills you'll need to use Windows with embroidery software.
This section covers things that are common to all versions of Windows. We also have separate sections for Windows-7, Windows-Vista, and Windows-XP.
Can't find what you're looking for here? Contact us for help!
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How To Back Up Your Computer
Video showing 4 Keys to making backups of your computer... "What needs to be backed up, what hardware do you need, what software should you use, and how often do you need to backup are all answered in this 1 hour video along with a Q&A session at the end for the folks watching live.
(Club members can click this photo to ask the artist questions!)
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What Version Of Windows-7 Are You Using?
Windows 7 comes in several versions. This step-by-step article shows how to find out which version is on YOUR computer. Why would you want to know this? Many of your older software programs are written for "32-bit" computers. You can update your Windows-7 to work with those older programs IF you know what to look for and where to look for it.
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Can't Save To Or Read From CD or DVD
One of our members asked... "I found some cd's that I apparently saved some designs to a long time ago, but when I try to transfer those designs to a floppy disk to use in my emb. machine, nothing shows on the screen. What am I doing wrong?" Here's the solution to this common problem with CD's and DVD's.
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Making Screen Text LARGER With Windows
My eyes are getting worse as I get older and that makes reading the text on the computer screen harder each with each passing year. Maybe you or a family member have the same problem and are looking for an easier way to read the fine print on your computer screen. Here's a solution that works and is free... . . .
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Problems Playing WMV Videos?
Videos that play on the computer screen can be in any one of more than a dozen formats. Each format was made by one or more computer companies and each has it's own pluses and minuses when compared to the others. Microsoft has created several formats including one of the most popular formats known as "WMV". "WMV" stands for "Windows Media Video". Here's how to fix your computer when it won't play a WMV video file... . . .
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Turning Off Windows Automatic Updates
On most computers, Microsoft Windows updates automatically every time the company finds a new security leak in their system. That could be every day or every week or two, but it happens pretty often. Unfortunately, the updates are not always compatible with every software program on your computer so an update may cause your favorite program(s) to stop working. . . .
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Part 1 Of "Revive Your Tired Old PC"
Free Up Lost Hard Drive Space!
My laptop is almost 3 years old. The hard drive space in use was 77-gb of an 80-gb drive and everything was running S-L-O-W. This series of articles will cover what I did to bring it back to FAST again and how you can get YOUR old PC running like new again. . . .
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Part 2 Of "Revive Your Tired Old PC"
Registry Backup & Cleanup
The first step in the "PC Revival" was to make sure your hard drive has enough free space that there is room for Windows to breathe. We did that in Part 1. The next step shown here is to back up your Windows "Registry" then clean the junk out of it. I show how that's done in this article... . . .
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Part 3 Of "Revive Your Tired Old PC"
Remove Old Programs & Startup Error Messages
In the first two steps we cleaned off excess clutter on our hard drive and fixed problems with the Windows Registry. Now we are going to clean out unused programs AND those annoying startup "error messages" you often see when rebooting windows. You know... the little windows that pop up when you're booting your computer and give you cryptic messages about this or that missing gizmos... . . .
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Part 4 of "Revive Your Tired Old PC"
Toss Out The Old Temp Files!
Almost everything you do online is saved in a folder on your computer in Internet Explorer. These are called "Temporary Internet Files". Eventually the folder that holds temporary internet files will reach it's maximum storage size and you will have to empty it out. Windows also has it's own little folder for storing files it needs temporarily. That one is called the "Windows Temp Folder". . . .
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How Much Free Space Is On My Hard Drive?
Almost everything you do online is saved in a folder on your computer in Internet Explorer. These are called "Temporary Internet Files". Eventually the folder that holds temporary internet files will reach it's maximum storage size and you will have to empty it out. Windows also has it's own little folder for storing files it needs temporarily. That one is called the "Windows Temp Folder". . . .
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This Free Video Player Works Great!
A couple months ago one of our members was having a hard time getting her computer to play a video on CD that I had shipped to her. The problem was that her computer didn't have the right software installed on it to play video CD's. Normally I recommend the free player available from Adobe company but one of our other members (Cari) posted this info . . .
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Zip Files Won't Unzip On My CD?
"Can zip files on CD's be unzipped later when ready to use them?" Yes BUT... I've had people try to unzip a file on a CD without first bringing the zip file to their hard drive. That doesn't work because the unzip program needs to make a new file and if it is left by default to make the new file on the same drive as the zip file then it is trying to write to a CD that has already been written to and closed. First step is to
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Fencing Off Space On Your Desktop
Is your computer desktop covered with so many icons that you can hardly find anything? Here's a cool little program that helps orgainize my computer. I really like it and the best part is that it's a freebie too! . . .
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Capture Your Computer Screen As A "Photo"
Well, not EXACTLY as a photo, but as a "JPG". A JPG is the same type of file as what a digital camera produces and there are lots of software programs available that will capture whatever you see on your computer screen. I'll tell you about my favorite one... But I will warn you that my favorite is not the cheapest available. Like many other . . .
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Backup To CD -- It's Free!
No fancy software to buy... No extra programs to install... Just pop in a blank CD-R and copy your embroidery design files to a CD! Here's a video showing how to make backups using your just your computer's CD-ROM drive and the software built into your Windows operating system . . .
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Resize Your Photos With "PhotoRazor" It's Easy And It's Free!
Sure, your super-wizbang digital camera takes great photos, but when you load the pictures to the web they are HUGE! Here's what to do about it!
My camera takes 12-megapixel photos. That's great for lots of purposes, but when I want to add one of them to my personal photo gallery there's a BIGproblem! The 12-megapixel photo takes a long time to load to the web AND . . .
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Can't See Newest Designs On ATW?
Can you believe that sometimes you visit a website and there are new things added to the site that you are not seeing? Here's how to make your computer show you the latest version of the web page you're visiting! . . .
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Deleting Temporary Internet Files In Internet Explorer 7
Websites often place a small file you your computer when you're viewing the site to track what page you're on and other info. These files are called "Cookies" and if the folder holding your cookies gets full, it can cause all kinds of frustratin problems for you. Here's how to EMPTY out the old cookies from Internet Explorer 7 . . .
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Deleting Cookies In Internet Explorer 7
Websites often place a small file you your computer when you're viewing the site to track what page you're on and other info. These files are called "Cookies" and if the folder holding your cookies gets full, it can cause all kinds of frustratin problems for you. Here's how to EMPTY out the old cookies from Internet Explorer 7 . . .
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What "Version" Of This Program Am I Using?
Most people use Internet Explorer (or "IE")to surf the web. Estimates are that IE version 6 and 7 are used for somewhere between 50 and 75 percent of the time. Firefox is the runner-up with a few less users. Whenever you're looking to solve a problem with your software, you'll find the question "what version are you using?" coming out of the computer guru's mouth . . .
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When Outlook Stopped Filtering Junk Mail... And How I Fixed It!
One Monday morning in November my computer ran the latest updates from Microsoft called "Service Pack 3". It's always good to have the most recently discovered security holes plugged which is a lot of what prompts these updates. But this one created a problem for the email on my computer! I use "Outlook 2003" on my Windows PC for reading and sending email. After the SP3 update happened, I noticed my INBOX filling up fast! I soon discovered that none of my "Rules" I had set up for handling email were running. And I also noticed that Microsoft's builti-in "Junk" filter wasn't removing any junk email . . .
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Optimize Your Windows PC
No Geek Squad or "cousin Fred" needs to come by your house to do it for you. And you won't need to take a college level computer course either. Here's how anyone can improve the performance of their own PC in just a few minutes . . .
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Speed Up Your Computer With Free Registry Cleaner Software
Here's a program you can get for free that will speed up your computer and more importantly fix "issues" you've been having. If you're like most people after a while you start seeing little popup messages about something not working right or some file missing. Those messages are both annoying and cryptic. Here's a way to make those messages go away permanently . . .
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Backing Up Pre-Loaded Software
"My computer finally died and had to get one with Vista which I will learn to work with. Is there anyway to make a backup disk of some of the preloaded software? From time to time I have had to reload certain programs (not a complete restore) because of . . .
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