Instead of buying a brand new Windows 7 DVD, some of you might opt to download the ISO image from the Microsoft site and burn it to a DVD yourself. The problem is, a great percentage of the common mass is facing problem getting the ISO image onto the DVD. In this article we will tackle this problem so you can easily burn your ISO into DVD and install Windows 7 on your machine.
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How to Burn a Windows 7 ISO Image to a DVD
By | April 22, 2010 |
Farmville: Effective Cheats Unveiled
By | April 9, 2010 |
FarmVile needs no introduction. Of all the renowned games in the web world, Farmville stands out alone unveiling a forum of trendiness and ostentatiousness. Plenty of cheats of the game are available worldwide. The futile effectiveness of these cheats are not worthy of mentioning. Spywares and trojans under the umbrella of hacking applications are also abundant. Here we are, presenting you with the Farmville cheats that is safe to use, and best of all, it worked!
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How to Hide Application Icon In Windows 7 Taskbar
By | April 7, 2010 |
Microsoft Windows 7 comes with a taskbar that has never before been witnessed in its predecessors. The Windows 7 taskbar features a dock-type appearance and utility tools like launching a program or running an application. Undoubtedly, the Windows 7 taskbar helps the user to an extent more than what meets the eye.
Here, we unveil a new utilization feature of the Windows 7 taskbar. Often, some programs and shortcuts to various applications are pinned to the taskbar for easy accessibility. However, sometimes for reasons concerning privacy and confidentiality, the user may want to hide these icons so that other users logging into his computer do not have access to his private applications or programs. We’ll now plow on the process to achieve this useful tweak.
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Restore the Show Desktop Icon In Windows 7
By | March 16, 2010 |
Windows XP came with the Show Desktop icon, a component that many users got used to. It helped as a make easy tool for accessing the desktop while working on some other open window. On clicking on the icon, the window got minimized and the desktop appeared for easy access to the user.
However, Microsoft came up with a different alternative in Windows 7, one that is not as user friendly as it was in Windows XP. We’ll see why it is so and how we can fix this up.
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Defragment Your Disk With Auslogics Disk Defrag
By | February 24, 2010 |
If you ask any experts on tips to speed up the performance of your Windows PC, the answer you often receive is “Defragment your hard disk“. The reason for hard disk fragmentation is because whenever you load any files or data into your hard drive, the operating system breaks it into uncountable number of pieces or chunks and store them in the empty spaces in the hard drive. When you try to open that file, the operating system has to gather all the parts and assemble them back to one piece. As more and more files are being split up and stored in various places, the hard disk become very crowded with fragmented parts and more time is needed to retrieve the files.
To fix this fragmentation problem, we need to run the disk defragmentation application where it locates the various parts of a file and arranges them in running order. By default, Windows comes with its own set of defragment tool that anyone can use, but it suffers from some drawbacks such as inability to defragment a single selected file and ignores files that are smaller than 64 MB.
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How to Open .docx File Without Microsoft Office
By | February 20, 2010 |
The previously used .doc format is no longer available in Microsoft Office 2007. Though there is an option in Office 2007 to save a document in the older .doc format, you can not read a .docx file without installing the newer version of Office. While the old format runs fine in the new version, the reverse is not true. This means you can not run the .docx files in Office 2003 or earlier. If you are not looking to upgrade to the new Microsoft Office suite, here are some ways that you can use to open the .docx files without installing the newer Office in your computer.
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How to Create a Backup System Image in Windows 7
By | February 3, 2010 |
Even the tallest building in the World will come crashing down one day, not to mention your vulnerable operating system. The question is: when your system crashed, do you have the required backup to get it up and running again?
In Windows 7, there is this feature that allows you to clone your system to an image file so you can restore from it in the event some disasters happened. In this article, we are going to show you how to clone your system drive in Windows 7 and restore your system from that.
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How to Hide Confidential Data In Text Files
By | January 31, 2010 |
If you have some important confidential data, would you store them in a text file? I bet the answer is No. In this article, we are going to show you how you can easily hide your data inside a text file. You didn’t read me wrong. I am referring to the simple unencrypted unsecure text file created by NotePad. The following trick is very easy to implement and will works in Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7. (Note: Your filesystem have to be NTFS for this to work).
What we are going to do is to make use of the NTFS’s Alternate Data Streams to store our sensitive data. The Alternate Data Streams allow us to hide stream in some file name. This data stream is not visible or shown when accessing the main file. So if you want to hide data like password, email address or bank A/C number, you can add those as a simple text and hide them as a stream in some file name.
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How to Customize Windows 7 Start Menu For Better Efficiency
By | January 19, 2010 |
Here at MakeTechEasier, we are in the business of making complicated things as simple as possible. Previously, we’ve already discussed how to customize the right click menu in windows 7. What you might not know is that you can customize the Windows 7 Start menu too. You can decorate the Windows 7 Start menu by adding the Administrative tool, enabling the Run command and Recent Items, and even delete all the Recent Items by double clicking on a shortcut. These tweaks allow you to have a faster access to Windows resources and be more efficient in your daily tasks. Let’s take a closer look at some of the tricks to customize the Start menu.
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How to Change the Icon Size and Display Settings in Windows 7
By | January 12, 2010 |
If you are using a large 27′ monitor like me, you will know how small your icons look like in the screen. Unless you enjoy looking small icons (and save up a lot of deskspace), you might be better off changing the icons (and text) to a bigger size instead of making the extra effort to make out what that tiny word is.
By default, the size of the text and the icons are set to small (100%). That is alright for a regular monitor. If you are using a wide screen monitor, the 100% setting may be too small for you. Here’s how you can easily configure them to a bigger size.
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