Windows 7 Tips

How to Schedule Disk Cleanup in Windows 7

Schedule Disk Cleanup Basic

Windows includes some handy tools to help keep your machine operating smoothly. One such tool is Disk Cleanup that can remove temp and old files to help you reclaim some hard drive space. You might want to set it up to run weekly or monthly depending on what works best for you. To schedule Disk Cleanup to run on a regular basis we need to schedule a task. For this example we’re using Windows 7, but the steps are essentially the same in Vista as well.

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Internet Explorer 9 tips

IE 9: Change Website Icons Pinned to Taskbar

With the new IE 9, users can pin websites to the taskbar. However, a website’s default favicon may not blend well with other icons in your theme. This will show you how to customize these icons.Display beautiful, informative website icons like these.

Steps to Follow

•  Right click on your desktop -> New -> Shortcut.

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Firefox tips

How to sync Firefox settings between computers

You can use Firefox Sync to synchronize your bookmarks, passwords, settings, history, and tabs with Firefox on other computers. First just set up Firefox Sync on your main computer and then add each of the other computers.

Part 1: Set up Firefox Sync on your main computer

• At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Firefox button (Tools menu in Windows XP) and then click Options . In the Options window, click on the Sync tab.
• Click Set Up Firefox Sync

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Windows 7 Tips

Make Now Playing Mode in Windows Media Player Display on Top

If you like to view album art and the visualizations in Windows Media Player in Now Playing mode, you might want to set it to always display on top of other windows. Here we take a look at how to set it up on WMP 12 in Windows 7.

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Types Of Text In Microsoft Power Point

In Microsoft Power point there are Four types of text that can be added to a Slide. These are text in different formatting options and tools.

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Updating Firefox

Firefox can be configured to automatically check for updates to the application, search engines, and any installed add-ons. This article shows you how to configure Firefox for automatic updates and to manually check for updates, if desired.

Automatic updates

By default, Firefox is configured to automatically check for updates.

Minor updates will be downloaded in the background and installed when you restart Firefox.

If an update has been waiting to be installed for more than 24 hours, you'll see a notification with the option to restart Firefox and install the update.

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Display Mycomputer as Menu In Windows XP

By default, Windows XP will show Control Panel on the Start menu as a 'link'.

This means that you have to click Control Panel to open it from the Start menu. However, you can change this link behavior to a menu so that you can access Control Panel icons directly from the Start menu. When you point to Control Panel on the Start menu, a submenu will pop out showing the icons.

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Link Twitter to Facebook Status Updates

Save the hassle of logging into 2 websites just to update your current status. Now you can link your Twitter and Facebook accounts together and save heaps of time. Twitter is a micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users' updates in real time. While Facebook, the fastest growing social networking community on the Internet today, connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.

This article will help you to link Twitter to Facebook status updates.

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Troubleshoot Incomplete Graphic

When we insert a graphic sometimes it appears only a part appears and it may reinsert the picture in same way if we remove and re-insert it. This can happen in any of the Microsoft Word programs.

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Notes in Opera Browser

Taking notes in an Opera browser helps users keep track of and store specific information that can be referred to later when users need it. Notes are a convenient and time-saving option in Opera and add to Opera's overall functionality.

This article will help you to make notes in Opera Browser.

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Windows 7 Tips

Make Sure Microsoft Security Essentials Has Updated Definition Files

If you’re a new user of Microsoft Security Essentials, you might be unclear on how to update definition files manually or automatically. Here we’ll show you a few methods you can use to make sure MSE is always up to date.

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Add Or Remove A Shadow

Shadow is an effect that we can insert to any auto shape or word art or any text box in any of the Microsoft office programs that we have in it. We can either remove or add the shadow to them.

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Print a page from Google Books

Google books is a way to explore and read a wide range of books. In many cases, you can read the entire book for free. Other service allow you to read a few pages before you are requested to buy the book online. Google books prevents to print from its database.

This article will help you to print a page from Google Books.

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Internet Explorer Tips

Disable Sounds in WebPages in IE

Sound playing on web sites can be annoying, and often there is no option to disable the sound on the site. There are a number of ways to disable/block sound produced from websites. Embedded sound is easier to block than Flash audio sound.In IE we can disable these sounds very easily

Follow the Folowing steps to Disable Sounds in WebPages in IE

1. Open Internet Explorer.

2. Click Tools and select Internet Options.

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Drag and Drop Items in Start Menu

Windows XP allows you to drag and drop items on the Start menu.

For example: let's say you are working on a document. You want that document to appear on the Start menu so you can easily access it while you are working on it. No problem, just drag and drop the document on the Start button. This creates a 'shortcut' to your document, it does not actually move the document to the Start menu, but just creates a shortcut to it. If you can't drag and

drop items, then you simply need to turn on the drag and drop feature.

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Insert Formula In A Word Table

Formula helps us in doing calculations and logical comparisons in a table. The Formula command is found on the Table Tools Layout tab, in the Data group. It is usually a part of Microsoft Excel but it can also be found in Microsoft Word.

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View PDF Files in Chrome

Google's Chrome Web browser is a free, open-source browser for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. PDF is a standard document format that display identically across all computers and operating systems. Google Chrome doesn't include a PDF viewer, but supports Adobe's PDF plugin, like other Web browsers do. Google Chrome displays PDF files embedded in browser tabs after Adobe Reader is installed and the plugin is enabled.

This article will help you to view PDF Files in Chrome.

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