By default, Windows 7 does not display all icons and notifications on its taskbar. Many people find this counterintutive. This tech-recipe will show you how to force Windows 7 to display all of those icons so that they can be more easily accessed.
If you use Microsoft’s SkyDrive for storing or sharing files, you can create mapped network drives that are easily accessible from your applications as well as the operating system itself.
If you don’t use the Favorites panel and want more room to view your mail folder list, you can disable the Favorites panel. This change won’t remove anything located in the panel, so you can easily go back to it if you change your mind.
Recently, a friend of mine figured out that his wife had been calling an ex-boyfriend on her BlackBerry. She had been switching out SIMs; however, she did not realize that her incoming and outgoing phone calls had been recorded within the log files of the phone. Are you curious? Here is how to filter and find this information. Additionally, we describe how to erase the logs to protect your privacy
If your computer has multiple users, chances are that those users will attempt to change the theme to their favorite one. Use this tutorial to prevent users from changing your wallpapers and themes.
This recipe explains how to enable accessibility options on the Apple iPad that can assist those with vision impairments or bad vision. The iPad’s OS (iOS) has accessibility options that we can enable to make reading and navigating much easier by zooming the screen in and in turn enlarging the view. Navigation and zooming is done via three finger gestures.
Outlook 2010 does you a huge favor, even if you’re unaware of it. Everytime you email someone that isn’t one of your saved contacts, Outlook saves them just in case you need to use them again someday. This is a much better way to find an address of someone that you emailed months ago but neglected to save them as a contact.
Are you tired of your old Windows Media’s library background? Do you want to change its background into your favorite wallpaper? These steps will help you to customize your Windows Media Player.
When trying to change system files, this error is commonly experienced: “Access denied: You need permission to perform this action.” System files are protected by TrustedInstaller. Even a user logged in as an Administrator does not have permission to overwrite system files. These steps will allow the user to overcome this error and overwrite system files as needed.
It is a quiet and peaceful morning. Everything is just perfect. However, then you switch on your computer, and the start-up sound of Windows destroys the blissful environment. If you ever need to disable the Windows start-up sound and perform a silent boot, these directions will return you to peace and quiet.
The Ribbon on the Office 2010 apps can be customized to meet your various needs. To prevent having to redo the entire customization process once you have the Ribbons looking the way you want, you should make a backup of the customization settings for each app. By saving the customization settings to a flash drive or other media, you will have the backups in case disaster strikes and you have to reload your computer, plus you can share your customizations with others.
In many circumstances radically locking down an installation of Windows 7 is very useful. By using parental controls the administrator can force users only to use specific applications. Most often this is used to prevent children from running unauthorized applications.
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