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How To Use Windows 7 Snipping Tool In Windows XP

Amit Sharma — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:43:18 +0000

One of the basic feature which is missing in Windows XP is that there’s no screenshot tool or snipping tool like Windows 7. Due to which users have to use the old school trick to take screenshots in Windows XP by using the PRINT SCREEN and paint method. Now please don’t comment I don’t about [...]

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Download Windows 7 Themes To Make Windows More Attractive

jaikee — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:05:35 +0000

Windows 8 Developer version is available and everybody is looking for it. We are awaiting Windows 8 final release but here we going to talk about how to make Windows 7 more interesting by changing the look and feel. Installing a Windows 7 theme gives you user interface change and thus refreshes computing experience. Windows [...]

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Remove Microsoft Office Groove Folder Synchronization[Windows 7 How To]

Amit Sharma — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:09:19 +0000

You might have seen the Groove Folder Synchronization Folder in the right-click menu, a module added by Microsoft Office 2007 which you might have never used. Let me introduce what’s the purpose of Microsoft Office Groove 2007. “Microsoft Office Groove 2007 is an inbuilt Internet software which helps to make direct connections with your friends or [...]

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Play with Windows Button on Keyboard Make Computing Faster and Better

jaikee — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:59:26 +0000

Untill now the Windows 7 is the most stable and efficient OS from Microsoft, though a better developed version, Windows 8 is yet to come in the market. Microsoft has already launched windows 8 developer edition and will soon launching it in open market. Useful link: Gmail Keyboard Shortcut. Right now, we are here to [...]

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5 Cоmрutеr Tірѕ Tо Sесurе Yоur Cоmрutеr Frоm Vіruѕ Attасkѕ

Amrik Virdi — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:27:29 +0000

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Enhance Windows Explorer Functionality With FilerFrog

Amit Sharma — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:09:29 +0000

Though Windows Explorer is quite good to manage the files the way we want them, still not satisfied, there are lots of alternatives too, but most of them are so obtrusive that people use them rarely. But I have a solution that can take the Windows Explorer functionality to the new level, without even changing [...]

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Easily Read RSS Feeds From Desktop in Windows 7

Tanmay — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:35:36 +0000

If you want to track the daily updates of your favorite websites, you then subscribe to the site’s RSS feed. Several types of feed reader are available to read the content of the RSS feed. Google Reader, Feed Burner are some popular feed reader that lets to read and manage your subscriptions. If you want [...]

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How to Use Windows 7 Media Center to Create a SlideShow

Tanmay — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:40:29 +0000

Suppose, you have just come from your office and your boss asked you to create a slideshow for an important presentation for the very next day. Unfortunately, you do not have the Office suite in your home computer or laptop. In this situation, you can use Windows 7 Media Center to create a slideshow. Windows [...]

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How to Configure Windows Media Center to Read Emails

Tanmay — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:48:00 +0000

You might be familiar with Windows Media Center in Windows 7 or Vista for watching movies. Did you ever imagine that you will hear your favorite music whenever a new mail arrives in your Inbox or about reading your Emails? – Vista Media Center mail can make it possible. Tip: Control Twitter and Facebook From [...]

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Share Wireless Internet Connection on LAN Using Ethernet Crossover Cable

Tanmay — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:50:40 +0000

The WiFi system allows you to share internet connection using wireless LAN with multiple computers and the procedure of sharing Internet connection through WLAN has been already discussed. But, what about that if you have a wireless USB modem to connect internet and want to share that connection with another computer at your home desktop [...]

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Connect Two Windows 7 Computers On LAN Using Ethernet Cable

Tanmay — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:04:07 +0000

There are times when you want to transfer your important files and documents from one computer to another. Especially, if you are to manage multiple computers on your home network or a workgroup, transferring files between them becomes tedious. Though you can use the following alternatives to transfer data. Tip: Create Wireless Home Network Without [...]

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Partition Hard Drive in Windows 7 Starter Without Formatting

Tanmay — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:25:51 +0000

Months ago, we covered an article on How to partition hard drive in Windows 7. It is quite easy and reliable procedure. But the tutorial was written on the basis of testing in Windows 7 ultimate version. Later, some reader complained that the workflow was not working for them as they were using Windows 7 [...]

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Partition Hard Drive to Create New Volume in Windows 7 Without Formatting [Screencast]

Tanmay — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:01:43 +0000

Situation may be happened that you have partitioned your computer hard drive without taking too much care about future and now you realize that you should have more partitions in Hard Drive for better management of your stored data. The traditional way of creating a new partition is formatting the hard Drive, which approaches a definite lose of your [...]

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Encrypt Hard Drive, USB Drive in Windows 7 by BitLocker

Tanmay — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:58:06 +0000

BitLocker drive encryption is an inbuilt windows 7 security feature. BitLocker encryption lets you to protect data in a hard drive or any removable drive( Usb flash drives or external hard drives) by encryption. It’s quite easy but secured way to keep away your personal files or folders from being accessed by a third person. [...]

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Create Your Own Run Command In Windows 7

Tanmay — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:15:49 +0000

I am a great fan of Windows Run command as it allows to open any application or system folder by typing a short command instead of moving my mouse and navigating to the deep of my hard disk location. I do love to open Command Prompt, Registry Editor etc. by pressing Win + R key [...]

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Transfer Installed Windows 7 To a New Computer

Tanmay — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:01:15 +0000

If you’ve recently bought your new computer or made major changes in the hardware configuration, for instance you’ve changed your mother board of your computer, you might be unable to run the previously installed Windows 7 operating system. The very usual fact is that the users accept this situation and they reinstall the operating system [...]

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Pin Folders to Start Menu From Context Menu in Windows 7

Tanmay — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:22:10 +0000

Some people still love to use start menu to open any application or program that are used very often by them. If you are among of them, this tutorial is especially for you. Similar article: Access Facebook Twitter Directly from Windows Start Menu. While, you can easily add any application to the start menu from [...]

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How To Prevent Users To Shut Down Windows

Tanmay — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:54:21 +0000

Computers which are used by several people should have different user accounts or user group for privacy of work. It is also recommended that the admin should not allow the full access to all the other users. If you are the administrator of such computer with Windows operating system and want to prevent some specific [...]

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Change the Text Message “Shutting down…” at Windows 7 Shutdown

Tanmay — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:33:03 +0000

This is a simple and interesting tricks to change the text message appearing when shutting down Windows 7. By default, you see the message “Shutting down…” after pressing the Shutdown button or shutting down the windows in any way. But if you want to replace the text message with your own custom message like “Good [...]

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Create and Configure your Own HotKey in Windows 7

Tanmay — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:16:32 +0000

Both the Windows 7 and XP have some hotkeys to do things easily and quickly. As example, the Win + E key combination will open the Windows explorer. Again if you press Win + U then it will open Accessibility Utility Manager. Related reading: Shortcut hack: Hide or Show Desktop Icons in Windows 7 Vista. [...]

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How to Create and Permanently Attach a Virtual Hard Disk in Windows 7

Tanmay — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:24:36 +0000

Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is a file, created in Windows 7, that behaves as a separate usual hard disk drive of the computer. You can keep your favorite files and folders, apply disk encryption etc. Even, you can boot from that virtual disk drive by configuring the boot manager. This tutorial shows how to create [...]

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Search Web From Windows 7 Explorer by Creating Your Own Search Connector

Tanmay — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:15:33 +0000

Microsoft has developed the new Windows 7 Explorer search, featured with various little known utilities. One of them is that you can search the web exactly from your Windows 7 Explorer search box by creating your own search connector. You can also search in the popular search engines or site search providers like Bing, Yahoo, [...]

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Search the Computer From Taskbar in Windows 7

Tanmay — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:09:30 +0000

Searching in Windows 7 is a better experience than the previous versions of Windows as it featured with instant search option. You can search your computer, websites within from the Windows 7 explorer. That’s a great feature. But things can be done more flexible using some little tweaks. Did you ever thought about searching from [...]

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Integrate Tabbed Browsing Feature in Windows 7 Explorer

Tanmay — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:42:04 +0000

Here is a nice utility that would be useful if file management into Windows is something you have to go through often. You have some point experienced how painfully surfing between Windows can become, when copying or browsing a number of files at different location of your computer. The Windows 7 explorer comes with some [...]

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How to Backup and Restore Pinned Items in Windows 7 Taskbar

Tanmay — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:24:01 +0000

One of the best feature of Windows 7 taskbar is that you can pin your most used programs, browsers there. Even you can also pin important files and folders, websites, games as well. So you might want to keep a backup of your Windows 7 pinned items in your taskbar so that you can easily [...]

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Keep the Menu Bar Permanently at Windows7 Explorer Window

Tanmay — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:10:52 +0000

If you are a huge Windows XP user and so much habituated in using the menu bar of Windows XP explorer, you might also like to use that in Windows7, which is invisible by default in explorer window of the newest version of Microsoft operating system. Here is the simple guide to get back the [...]

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Let your Windows PC to Be Shut Down Automatically at Night (If Idle)

Tanmay — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:12:23 +0000

If you work on your computer till late night then you might often forget to shut down your PC. At the morning you would discover that all the night your computer was on. But you can configure your PC to shut down automatically at a scheduled time when your computer becomes idle. Here is the [...]

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Registry Hack: Add Copy the Content item to Context Menu in Windows 7

Tanmay — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:05:24 +0000

Right-clicking is one of the obvious activity to navigate into your Windows 7 widely. By default there are some useful shortcuts are included in the right-click context menu. But you can add more options there to organize things at your finger tip by playing with your registry. Copying the content of a file from the [...]

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Restore Quick Launch Bar in Windows 7 like Windows XP

Tanmay — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:16:07 +0000

Now it is the age of Windows 7. Microsoft released this operating system with advanced feature, high security system and transparent, user friendly interface. But those who still love to use the Windows XP interface can get back their favorite quick launch bar in Windows 7. You can doc any item to the taskbar combining [...]

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Easiest Way To Run Multiple Instances of Dropbox in Windows 7

Tanmay — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:12:29 +0000

You may know that recently, I wrote an tutorial about how to run multiple Dropbox accounts in Windows 7. Later I found that somehow the procedure is lengthy. Why? If you want to run just two instances of Dropbox then its okay. But what about that if you want to run many Dropbox instances, suppose [...]

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