How to Transfer Windows 8 Installer to a USB Storage Device

Installing Windows 8 is pretty easy if your computer has a DVD drive but what if the drive is broken or you’re using a device that does not have one? This can become a serious problem for people who don’t have the techie mindset within themselves. If your Windows 8 installer is saved on a […]

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Exploring the User Account Control Feature on Windows 7 and 8

The User Account Control is probably one of the most misunderstood feature that has suffered a lot of criticizing from most users especially those who are using some older versions of Windows. What most people fail to understand is that the User Account Control (UAC) actually provides Windows with more security against unauthorized access and […]

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Getting Acquainted With Windows 8’s Action Center

Most of us who have been using Windows ever since it came into existence are surely familiar with balloon prompts and notifications suddenly popping out of the system tray or notifications area as others call it. These messages are all coming from the Action Center except for the ones which flashes when you are running […]

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Windows Services: What are They and How to Access Them on Windows 7 and 8

Most of us are familiar or can even memorize where certain files are located on our computers without really taking time to think what makes all the components of it (both hardware and software) to communicate with each other so everything works smoothly as they should. All features and capabilities offered by your computer and […]

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Learning How to Burn Files and other Media Contents Using Windows Explorer

A flood of third party programs and applications that helps in burning files and other media contents into CDs and DVDs are widely available all over the Internet at present. Most of these applications are offered for FREE and are described as having a lot to offer which make most of us forget that Windows […]

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Managing the Homegroup on Windows 7

On a previous tutorial, I have shown you how you can create a HomeGroup on your Windows 7 machine. Right now on this article we will be digging deeper to the details of the steps in managing the HomeGroup which you created previously so you can start taking advantage of the features and capabilities that […]

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Need to Share Contents? Try Windows 7’s HomeGroup Feature

The HomeGroup was first introduced on Windows 7 and  is probably one of the most useful network and sharing feature that was ever developed by Microsoft. The HomeGroup feature is aimed at making any sharing and transferring process of files and other contents to different devices easier. Back in the days of the older versions […]

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Identifying the Version of Windows Installed on Your Machine

What if you get a prompt that suddenly asks you to identify the version of Windows that you have on your computer before you can go on and proceed with an installation process? What will you do? Most of us, at least those who are average to expert in using any Windows version are familiar […]

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How to Remove and Uninstall Programs and Applications on Windows 7 and Windows 8

Programs and  Applications that are left installed on any Windows machine even if they are not used anymore can be a cause of problems and system slowdowns in the long run but how can you deal with these programs and applications if you can’t even find the uninstall file or shortcut for it? This becomes […]

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Managing Libraries on Your Windows 7 Computer

In a previous article, we discussed what a Library is and how you can create one on your Windows 7 machine. We also taught our readers how to add folders into the library and explained the advantages that they would get from using this valuable feature that is readily available on any Windows 7 machine […]

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