In Windows7, we can set default media player for opening video/audio files as follows. Click on Start button Search for ‘set default‘ Click ‘Set your default programs’ in the search result. It displays list of programs. Among the list, select your favorite media player. Click on ‘Set this program as default‘. Next click on ‘Choose [...]
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We can disable Recent items list which shows the list of recently opened files. It can be done in the following way in Windows 7/Vista. Right click on Start button in the task bar Click Properties In the ‘Start menu‘ tab as shown in the picture above, uncheck ‘Store and display a list of recently [...]
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If you want to save one of your outlook emails as a pdf file, then you can do that by following the below steps. Outlook does not have any direct feature to do this, so we use MS Word as an intermediate place holder in the conversion to pdf file. Open the email and copy [...]
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Like in XP, Windows 7 also enables offline files feature for redirected folders automatically. User’s explicit action is not required to cache the files of these folders locally. This provides access to the files without any disruption even if the network in down. How to disable offline files for redirected folders in Windows 7? This [...]
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When you open a chm help file, you may see the error ‘Navigation to the webpage was cancelled’. This usually happens if you have downloaded the help file from web. The content in the help file gets blocked for security reasons. I have faced this issue when I was trying to open windows commands reference [...]
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Putty is a popular ssh client for Windows OS. It also supports telnet and rlogin connections. It has many configurable options which are described below. Putty color settings: The default background color is black. If you want to set white background, Go to Window -> colours. Enable ‘Use System colors’. You can also modify the [...]
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In Windows 7, we can enable remote desktop as follows. Open computer properties and click Remote settings. (Or you can execute sysdm.cpl from Run which opens up system properties window. click on Remote tab) select the second check button ‘Allow connections from computer running any version of remote desktop‘ . If the other machine which [...]
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What to do if your disk is filled up and you want to make some free space somehow? Well, this article explains different steps you can do to get more free space. 1. Run disk clean manager. This tool identifies certain categories of files which are least required. You can run your Windows without having [...]
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Microsoft download manager is not a well known product among Windows users but it’s very useful one. This allows one to download large sized files even with network interruptions. It automatically resumes the download when the network is back up. You can also manually pause and resume the download whenever you want to. Download Microsoft [...]
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We can log on to a Windows 7 computer with a finger swipe. The only thing you need to have on your laptop is a fingerprint scanning biometric device. In this post we take you through how to configure finger print logon and the related settings for it. 1. First check if you have a [...]
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