Richard
Tech Writer, IT Professional
Richard, a writer for Geek Rewind, is a tech enthusiast who loves breaking down complex IT topics into simple, easy-to-understand ideas. With years of hands-on experience…
About Geek Rewind
About Us
Step-by-step Windows and PC tutorials, written in plain language and kept current — 2,812 guides, 2,798 of them revised in the last three months.
2,812
Tutorials published
2,798
Revised in 90 days
4
Topics covered
8
Years publishing
How a tutorial gets published
The honest answer to “can I trust these steps?” is the process behind them.
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We follow the steps ourselves
Every guide is written against the actual Windows build it names — the menus, paths and registry keys are the ones we clicked, not ones recalled from an older version.
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Exact strings, never paraphrased
Registry paths, commands and file locations are reproduced character for character. One wrong backslash is the difference between a fix and a broken install, so we treat them as quotations.
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We date what we checked
Guides carry the month they were last verified. If you are reading something from a while ago, you can see that for yourself instead of guessing.
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We revisit when Windows changes
Feature updates move settings and remove options. Guides are re-checked as that happens — 2,798 were revised in the last three months alone.
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We say when something no longer works
When Microsoft removes a feature outright, the guide gets a clear warning at the top and points you to what replaced it. We would rather tell you a method is dead than let you waste twenty minutes discovering it.
Who writes here
Real bylines, with the work behind them.
What we don’t do
Anyone can list their principles. These are the ones you can hold us to.
- No paid placements. Nobody can buy a recommendation, a link, or a place in a “best of” list.
- No fake screenshots. Every screenshot comes from the version of Windows the guide is about.
- No unverified registry edits. If a key is in a guide, it is a key we used. We do not publish a path we have not seen work.
- No silent edits. When a guide changes materially, the date changes with it.
- No pretending. If a method stopped working, the guide says so at the top rather than quietly staying up.
Found a mistake?
Windows moves, and sometimes a guide falls behind before we catch it. If a step does not match what you see on screen, tell us — corrections are treated as bugs, not opinions, and we would rather fix one guide today than have a hundred readers hit the same wall.