How to Enable or Disable Aero Shake in Windows 7

Aero Shake is a shining feature in Windows 7 which allows you to minimize all running windows except the one which you are working on. Maybe you think this feature is unnecessary, and want to disable it, or just want to know how to control Aero Shake function by yourself.

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How to Turn Windows Defender On or Off in Windows 7

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This will show you how to turn Windows Defender On or Off in Windows 7. When Windows Defender is on, you will be alerted when spyware and other potentially unwanted software tries to install itself or run on your computer. By default, Windows Defender is turned on in Windows 7.

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How to Change the Date and Time in Windows 7

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This will show you how to set or change the date and time for the system clock in Windows 7. This tutorial is not for Windows Xp.

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HOW TO SETUP INTERNET STREAMING IN WMP 12

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This will show you how to set up internet streaming in windows 7 using windows media player 12.

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Improve Battery Life in Windows 7 with the Built-In Power Troubleshooter

Anybody who has a Windows 7 laptop is going to be concerned with how to make the battery last longer, but did you realize there’s a built-in troubleshooting wizard in Windows 7 that helps you maximize your battery life?

This is, only one of the ways to maximize your battery life—your best bet is to adjust your screen brightness and get rid of unnecessary applications that abuse the CPU. This article may not be applicable for Windows XP

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How to Add or Remove a Windows Firewall Exception in Windows 7

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This will show you how to add or remove a Windows Firewall program exception for each type of network location (ex: Private or Public) that you use in Windows 7. Some of these steps may or may not work on Windows XP.

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How to Turn Windows Firewall On or Off in Windows 7

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Windows Firewall can help prevent hackers or malicious software from gaining access to your computer through the Internet or network.

This will show you how to to turn Windows Firewall On or Off for each type of network location (ex: Private or Public) that you use in Windows 7. Windows Firewall is turned on by default in Windows 7.

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How to Change User Account Control (UAC) Notification Settings in Windows 7

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When turned on, User Account Control helps prevent potentially harmful programs from making changes to your computer in Windows 7 by notifying and asking you for permission before letting the program run or install.You dont have this feature in Windows XP.

 

This tutorial will show you how to change the User Account Control (UAC) for when to be notified about changes to your computer.

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How to Activate Windows 7 Online

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Activation is the required process of ensuring that Windows 7 on your computer is genuine and used according to the Microsoft Software License Terms. This tutorial will show you how to activate Windows 7 online with your valid product key number. 

To activate online, your computer will need an Internet connection.

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How to Enable or Disable the Windows 7 Built-in Administrator Account

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Standard user (Users) - The standard account can help protect your computer by preventing users from making changes that affect everyone who uses the computer, such as deleting files that are required for the computer to work. We recommend creating a standard account for each user. When you are logged on to Windows with a standard account, you can do almost anything that you can do with an administrator account, but if you want to do something that affects other users of the computer, such as installing software or changing security settings, Windows might ask you with a UAC prompt to provide a password for an administrator account.

The default administrator account that is created during the installation of Windows 7, or setup already for you on a OEM (ex: Dell) computer, will have complete access to the computer and can make any desired changes. To help make the computer more secure, this administrator account may be asked with a UAC prompt to provide their password or confirmation before making changes that affect other users.

The built-in Administrator account is an account that has full access and permission on the computer, and will not be prompted by UAC.

This will show you how to enable or disable the built-in Administrator account in Windows 7.

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How to Use the BCDEDIT Command Line Tool

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This will show you how to use BCDEDIT in the command prompt and avoid the need of third party applications like EasyBCD.

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How to Open a Elevated Command Prompt in Windows 7

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This tutorial will show you how to open a elevated command prompt with administrator rights (Run as administrator) instead of the default command prompt without administrator rights in Windows 7. This tutorial is not applicable to windows XP

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How to Create a New Partition or Volume in Windows 7

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This tutorial will show you how to create a new primary partition using Disk Management or Diskpart in Windows 7 from a empty unallocated partition or volume.

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Installing and updating drivers in 7

This guide is broken up into a number of parts:

Intro to drivers

Driver guidelines

Finding & updating drivers

Using Driver Sweeper

Device Manger updates

INTRO:

Drivers instruct Windows exactly what hardware you have and what it does, along with any specific features. Manufacturers usually release new drivers frequently to keep their products updated and add new features. Performance is also usually improved, so it is absolutely vital to keep all your drivers updated. Use a driver sweeper for some drivers too.

 

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How to Lock a Folder with a Password without Any Software in Windows 7

This Article will help you in locking any folder without any third party software which will also prevent any virus infection due to third party software's. This can also be used on Windows XP, windows Vista, Windows 7

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No sound in Windows 7

Introduction

This tutorial is designed to help you identify and fix common sound problems in Windows, including no sound coming from your speakers or headphones. This tutorial doesn't cover sound problems related to specific programs. Sound problems can be caused by cables that aren't connected properly, corrupt drivers, incompatible drivers, sound settings, missing updates, and problems with your sound card.

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How to Change the Windows 7 Homegroup Password

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This article will show you how to change the password for your Windows 7 homegroup.

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How to Create a Homegroup in Windows 7

HomeGroup makes your job easy to share pictures, music, documents, videos, and printers with other people on your home network. This article will show you how to create a homegroup in Windows 7.

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Customize Windows 7 Search Settings

Customizing What and How to Search


You can find all the Search settings for Windows Search on the "Folder 
and Search Options" window in Windows Explorer. Follow these steps to cus-
tomize where Windows Search looks for files/folders:

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How do I configure System Restore in Windows 7?

System Restore helps you restore your computer's system files to an point back in time. It helps you undo system changes to your computer without affecting your personal data. It is worthy to note that System restore affects Windows system files, programs, registry values, scripts, batch files, and other types of executables. System Restore in Windows 7 and Vista works a bit differently than it does in Windows XP in that it uses the Shadow Copy feature in which it creates a snapshot of your drive at a certain point of time.

The System Restore in Windows 7 needs a minimum of 300 MB of the drive space of the hard drive, by a general rule. In Windows XP however, the minimum size required is 200 MB. Depending on the size of the partition it is usually a good idea to either increase or decrease the allocated space for system restore. Here is how this is done:

To access System Restore Configuration, Click on Start and then right click on Computer and then select Properties from the context menu. 

Then click on System Protection to display the System Restore configuration menu.

From here, you can control the way System Restore will work or behave in Windows 7. It will furthermore display the drives that are currently configured to use System Restore and those that are not. 


You can select a drive or partition and click on the Configure button to get detailed configuration information about it. This includes the percentage that is currently allocated for System Restore in MBs along with the current usage.

It is possible to change the percentage that Windows can allocate for system protection to free up disk space for other data, simply by dragging the slider above. By default it is 4% in Windows 7. It is also possible to delete previous system restore points and to change the restore settings. 


By default System Restore can save system settings and previous versions of files. You can however choose to restore only the previous versions of files as shown in the figure above.


You can also selectively turn System Restore off for a specific drive or partition. This was also possible in Windows XP

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