If some sharing options are enabled on your computer like File Sharing, Public Folder Sharing or Network Discovery then definitely there is a security risk involved. Although, your installed firewall provides protection but still there are precautionary measures exist which may protect your system against unseen security threats. So, in following we are just writing [...]

If some programs are running in Windows 7 and you Shut Down it then Windows 7 will spend some time to save data and close running programs before shutting it down. By default this time is 12 seconds in Windows 7 but you can reduce this time to speed up the shut down time. Its [...]

Today i received an email from user that how can i shutdown my laptop if unplugged and installed Windows 7. Microsoft Windows 7 comes with lot of power management features and you can customize it according to your requirements. So here is the method to shutdown your laptop if you lose the AC power and [...]

Every network capable device must have unique MAC address assigned by the manufacturer. Media Access Control (MAC) address is hexadecimal code separated with colon “:” or hyphen “-” and MAC address is unique even two devices of same type. Most common use of MAC addresses by the network administrators is to allow a specific list [...]

If you have both Mac and PC at home or Office and I am sure you want to either access Mac files from PC or access PC files from Mac. In this guide, you will see how to share Mac files for Windows using Mac OS X Snow leopard and Windows 7. This process is [...]

If you are going to change your iPhone or just want to take backup of your iPhone contacts, here is a simple way to export your iPhone contacts as csv file in Windows 7 and you can open this csv file in Excel. You just need your iPhone and iTunes running in Windows7. Windows XP [...]

You can perform Spirit untethered jailbreak on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch firmware 3.1.2, 3.1.3, or 3.2. Follow the given instruction to jailbreak iPad with Spirit in Windows. Requiremenst: iPad must be activated, It must not on connect to iTunes/Emergency call screen, iTunes 9 to 9.1.1 will work and syncing with iTunes is recommended before [...]

Winlogon.exe Windows Logon is an important Windows system process, and if you want to know further about winlogon.exe process in Windows 7, Vista and XP then you should read the details in below. What is winlogon.exe? Winlogon.exe Location? Winlogon.exe a Virus? What is winlogon.exe? The winlogon.exe process works to manage the user’s login and logout [...]

To erase data from a rewritable disc, obviously you need CD/DVD burning software installed on your system but Windows 7 give you a built-in option to erase rewritable CD or DVD which allows users to perform that task easily without the help of any third party application. How to erase rewritable Cd / DVD in [...]

Windows operating system contains several processes and services running in Task Manager and some of those are necessarily important for the smooth running of OS. In Task Manager you may observe mostly the critical Windows processes and services with some other processes related to the running applications. To access the Task Manager simply right click [...]

In Windows 7, Action Center is the place which keeps necessary messages about security updates and Windows maintenance updates and user must consider to run the OS properly by installing new available updates according to their preferences. In Windows 7 Notification area /system tray you can observe Notification icon as following When you click on [...]

Skype 4.2 windows 7 taksbar, the new version of Skype is stays on the Windows 7 Taskbar when the main windows of Skype is closed like MSN Messenger behavior and its not minimizing to the notification area (System Tray) . Personally i don’t like the way it should be in the Notification Area (System Tray). [...]

Dwm.exe, Desktop Window Manager is a Windows system file which changes the behaviors of windows components and used for high end graphics display. The dwm.exe is an innovative process introduced by Microsoft especially in Vista and now it is also the part of Windows 7 OS. What you want to know about dwm.exe process is [...]

In Windows XP we can easily find network connections by right clicking on connection icon and select “open network connections“. But finding network connection in Windows 7 or Vista is bit different from XP. So lets see how we can easily open network connections from run or command line, also how to create shortcut to [...]

People ask me mostly about different Windows processes and now trying to answer one by one, let’s see the csrss process, What is csrss.exe? What is the process file location? How to identify the original and viruses and how to remove csrss without a tool. The csrss.exe is a Client Server Runtime Subsystem process file, [...]

So you have some beautiful pictures in your iPhone and you want those iPhone pictures transfer to your PC. Transferring pictures to your computer from iPhone is very easy. Check this guide if you want to transfer from iPhone to PC Windows 8 or reverse transfer pictures from PC to iPhone without iTunes See how [...]

After availability of Google Chrome OS / Chromium OS source code, one of gdgt engineer able to make virtual image of Chrome OS. Now you can run Chrome OS on Windows, Linux or Mac by using VMware or VirtualBox. To run Chrome OS in Windows 7 follow these steps after a jump. Update: This Chrome [...]

In Window 7 file extensions are hidden by default and you might want to change the extension of any file. T0 show file extensions in Windows 7 follow the few simple steps. Step-1 Double click on Computer icon or click on Start button > Computer Step-2 In the explore click on Organize > Folder and [...]

Hardware virtualization is basic need to run XP Mode in Windows 7. Hardware virtualization is not available in all PCs and your PC may also don’t have hardware virtualization. If your PC have capability of hardware virtualization then it may be disabled by default. So you need to check your PC have hardware virtualization option [...]

You may don’t like the bigger icons of Start Menu in Windows 7 or Vista taking too much space. See below the Start menu taking whole vertical space of the screen. Make the Start Menu Icons Smaller in Windows 7 or Vista. Step-1 Right click on Start Menu > Properties Step-2 Click on Start Menu [...]

Where is Outlook Express in Windows 7? Well Outlook Express is replaced with Windows Mail in Windows Vista and now in Windows 7 it comes with the name Windows Live Mail. Windows Live Mail is free program but not comes with Windows 7, so you have to install it manually. Follow the steps given below [...]

Microsoft gives option to download Windows 7 ISO file when you purchase Windows 7 from Microsoft Store. You need to create a Windows 7 bootable USB or DVD from this ISO file. Windows 7 USB/DVD tool is used to create that bootable USB or DVD. Bootable media allows you to install Windows 7 without having [...]

Enable Administrator Account in Windows 7, built-in administrator account in Windows 7 is disabled and hidden by default. To perform some Administrative task you have to enable it. To enable the Administrator account in Windows 7 follow the given steps below. See also: Create Account in Windows (Command line) Enable Administrator Account Windows 7 Here we [...]

Compression tools like 7Zip,Winzip, Winrar are commonly used to reduce the file size and to bind multiple file in one compressed file. You can extract 7z, ZIP, RAR, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, GZIP, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z files by following the steps [...]