Windows 7 Archives - Page 3 of 6 - Windows Tech Updates

How to Uninstall Internet Explorer 8 in Windows7

What the hell is going on with my computer when I use internet explorer, It crashes all the time and I am not able to view any website, i don’t need Internet Explorer but still it is installed on my system. How can i remove this thing from my computer? The solution is given as …

Magic Of Windows Key In Windows7

Windows7 is in market and very successful in all aspect of uses. There are very handy and easy functions available in windows that can make it very fast to use and manage your opened windows, desktop icons, quick launch programs, etc. Let me share a list of the cooler keyboard shortcuts that you can now use in Windows 7 for quickly managing your windows.

1. Dragging any window against the LEFT, RIGHT, TOP and BOTTOM edge of the screen will perform the following operation:

LEFT: Align window to the left side of screen, vertically maximize window and fill about half the screen horizontally
RIGHT: Anchor window against right side of screen, vertically maximize window and fill about half the screen horizontally
TOP: Maximize the window
BOTTOM: This will minimize the active windows at the task bar

2. WINDOWS KEY + LEFT/RIGHT/UP/DOWN: Dock the current focused window against the LEFT or RIGHT side of the screen.

Start a Program in Administrator Mode in Windows7

Windows7 security features are enough good to save your computer from accidental deletion or initialization of any program to make a change in operating system. If you like to make any change you have to start all the required programs in administrator mode. If you like to make any kind of configuration you have to …

Enable and Disable Hibernation in Windows 7

Most easy and quick way to enable and disable hibernation in Windows7 is command line method. You have to start your CMD (Command Prompt) in administrator mode and issue a very simple and easy to remember command to enable or disable hibernation. Enable Hibernation powercfg /hibernate on Disable Hibernation powercfg /hibernate off

How to Secure Computer From USB Viruses in Windows 7

No doubt, windows 7 is an ultimate windows family member that is fully loaded with most of the security tools required to secure your system. Most of the common viruses spread using USB drive and waste a lot of time including file corruption, system slow response, annoying behavior of system and many more problems that can make your system unstable. All the above problem can be easily controlled and prevented by just making few very easy and handy configuration in your windows 7. Most viruses in USB drives spread by using autorun.inf style and copy few files in your system that start breading and making your system unstable.

Auto run function can now be controlled by following the under given instructions in windows 7. There is no need to make any change in registry or to take risk to make your system unstable by making any change in registry.

How to Secure your Files And Communications

People are working around to make their files and communications more and more safer than their other things by using passwords, long and complex passwords with special characters and many more techniques but the experts proved that this is not the only thing you should do to save your files and important data. Not so long ago, computer enthusiasts have proved to retrieve an eight letter password by use of a GPU in three days. Makes you wonder how safe your data is. In PixelCryptor you choose a picture and use it to combine your files into a package. The pixel data is used to encrypt your data. The combinations are endless and hard to break. Nowadays people have not one, but dozens of passwords. It can be hard to remember them, and you might lose precious data when you forget them. PixelCryptor offers a solution.

Encryption has been used for as long as people have been talking and wishing to keep their communications secret. Examples range from trans- position Cyphers used by the Spartan military to more modern techniques like DES and AES.

Ubuntu Theme for Windows7

If you are a Linux lover but forced to work on windows environment specially on new family member of windows that’s windows7, you can now install a theme of Ubuntu on your windows 7 and use it like Linux.

Microsoft Security Essential Installation Error

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free anti-virus software that can help you prevent and block virus to corrupt your system. It provides your real time security protection against Spywares, viruses and Other malicious software’s.

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology.

There is a very common installation error appears most of the time on your system if you are using any other anti-virus software on your system.

Error

Cannot complete the Microsoft Security Essentials Installation Wizard: Error Code 0x80070002

Solution

The common reason of this error is the presence of any other anti-virus on your system. You need to clean uninstall that anti-virus software before installing Microsoft Security Essentials.

Here are few clean uninstall tools for different anti-virus software’s;

Repair Most Common Problems of Windows 7

Microsoft Windows Being mostly widely used operating system always came under threat of viruses, Trojans, spywares and hundreds of other problems but most of times windows behaves abnormally because of small problems with registry or some kind of amendment done by any illegal software or spyware. People faced a big issue in windows XP “Cannot open Task Manager” “Task Manager has been disabled by the administrator”. This happened due to a small change in the registry by any adware or malware. Unfortunately this problem existed in windows 7 too. The good information is that now we can find more than required utilities to solve these problems in just few seconds. But most of the time we find utilities for just one or two problems maximum 10 problems being solved by that utility.

FixWin

FixWin is a utility that can solve more than 50 common problem of windows 7 by just pushing few buttons. This utility can fix windows explorer problems, Internet and Connectivity problems, Windows media player problems, System tools and also additional fixes are available. Its a free and portable application to fix all the problems of windows. You just need to download this application and run, there is no need to install this application.

Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

Find out if your PC can run Windows 7 To see if your PC is ready for Windows 7, download the free Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor. It scans your PC for potential issues with your hardware, devices, and installed programs, and recommends what to do before you upgrade. If your PC can run Windows Vista, …