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[Tutorial] How To Check Security Processes In Your Windows

From the Windows startup, services and software are run in the background of your Windows to perform system tasks. These processes are mostly safe and secure, but it may happen that malware can manage to slip in their midst. With the free Windows Process Security, you’ll be able to check the safety of processes running on your computer by searching from over 130,000 threats. If the software detects a dangerous process (which may for example record your actions on the Internet, send emails without your knowledge, slow down your computer, etc…) and consuming unnecessary resources on your system, you can stop it and delete it permanently from your computer. In this tutorial I will show you how to perform this procedure using Windows Process Security tool.

[Tutorial] How To Take Screenshot Of An Android Phone In Windows 7

If you are writing tutorials for Android phone, like those you can find at TheTechJournal, you probably want to take few screen captures of your Android phone pane and explain some steps user need to perform. In this tutorial I will show you how to take screenshots of your Android phone under Windows 7 and using Android SDK.

[Tutorial] How To Safely Remove USB Drives Just By Unplugging It – Windows 7

When ever you want to unplug/disconnect your USB drive or external hard drive from your desktop or laptop computer, from Windows system tray you always need to choose Safely Remove Hardware. The main reason why you should do this is to make sure Windows is not busy reading from or writing to the drive when you want to remove it. If you do this without using Safely Remove Hardware option you could damage your drive. However with just few simply modifications in Windows you can easily bypass this options and avoid those extra click when you are removing your drive.

[Tutorial] How To Block A Website In All Web Browsers – Windows

Blocking websites has become commonplace now because of parental control or for any other reason. Browsers offer add-ons which can effectively block any web site you choose, unfortunately, if the idea is to be unnoticed (e.g. because of your children which can easily disable the addon) there is an alternative way to achieve this goal in any Windows version and in this tutorial I will show you how.

[Tutorial] Manage File Compression More Easily With 7-zip In Windows

Since Windows XP, Windows includes basic tools for managing compressed files in ZIP format. From the explorer, it is possible to extract files and folders within a ZIP archive and create your own archives. You can group files together in a single compressed file, multiple files and folders on your hard drive. And since it is compressed, the archive takes up less space than the original files which is much easier send or upload it on the web. But Windows only supports ZIP archives and does not include advanced features such as cutting archives into several pieces, encryption and protection of archives, management of compression and use of the command line. With the free tool called 7-Zip, you will be able to add features such as creating self-extracting archive and verifying the integrity of your archives directly inside Windows Explorer. This complete tutorial will help you understand all those steps.

[Complete Guide] How To Repair Windows XP Startup

If you having problems starting your computer with Windows XP because it won’t boot at all, there could be plenty of reason for that to happen. In this tutorial I will cover some of most frequent techniques you can use in order to fix your Windows XP or in some cases even newer versions and make your Windows boot and start again without any kind of problems.

[Tutorial] How To Add A Drive Letter To Google Drive In Windows

Using Google Drive shortcut to upload your files to Google Cloud online is nothing complicate, but for some users using a drive letter can be more convenient and that’s why in this tutorial I will show you how to map one of your Google Drive accounts as a drive letter in Windows 7. Thanks to a small program called Visual Subst this procedure is quite easy and quick.

[Tips] Give A Life To Your Desktop Background – Windows

You like to regularly change the wallpapers and display personal photos or view beautiful images from the Internet? To give a life to your desktop background, you can automate a rotation between images. For this you can use the free John’s Background Switcher. In this complete tutorial I will show you how to effectively manage your desktop background and wallpapers using this free tool under Windows 7.