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[Tutorial] How To Add Dropbox, Google Drive Or SkyDrive to Windows Send-To Menu

To send your files at Google Drive, Dropbox or SkyDrive faster and much easier and easier without opening any additional windows you can simply add their shortcuts inside Send To menu. In this tutorial I will show you the entire procedure of adding all three shortcuts in Windows 7, and then with simple right mouse click you can upload your files to the cloud.

[Complete Guide] Protecting Your Children In Windows 7

Windows 7 has a very effective tool called parental control which can help you to monitor and filter web sites your child visit, time they spend on the computer, software and video games they use, etc… Comprehensive and effective tool, but again fairly simple to implement, as you will see in this tutorial. One constraint however, you must have an account with administrative rights on your computer which will be protected by a password (to prevent one of your children does not change the protection settings). Also, to enable web filtering, you also must have a Windows Live (Messenger, Hotmail, etc…) which will be associated with your web filtering settings.

[Tutorial] How To Hide A Hard Disk Partition In Windows 7

If you want to protect your hard drive or part of hard drive (it’s partition) and don’t allow anyone to access it, you can hide it. In this tutorial I will show you how to hide any of your free partition under Windows 7 without using any third party tools. I will also provide two different methods which you can use, so make sure you read both of them and choose the one you find most convenient for you.

[Tutorial] How To Improve The Sensitivity Of Microphone In Windows 7

When you speak into your microphone to chat with friends, they can not hear you or the output sound is not of good quality? To correct this, you can increase the sensitivity of your microphone. In this tutorial I will show you how to preform this procedure under Windows 7.

[Tutorial] How To Network Windows 7 With Windows Vista and Windows XP

Windows 7 includes a new way to share data between all the computers in the house thanks to the HomeGroup. But only computers which are running Windows 7 can join the HomeGroup and enjoy the new features for sharing, playing media files remotely, etc… If you have computers running Windows XP or Windows Vista in same network with Windows 7, you can still share your files and printers with Windows 7 and in this tutorial I will show you how.

[Tutorial] How To Reduce Hard Disk Space Used By Windows System Restore

If every GB of space available on your hard drive is important to you then in this tutorial I will show you how to get few extra GBs by reducing the HDD free space sued by Windows System Restore tool. This tool allows you to roll back of system files, registry keys, installed programs, etc., to a previous state in the event of system malfunction or failure.

[Tutorial] How To View Network Activity In Windows 7

In Windows, the network icon that informs you whether or not you are connected to a network is in the notification area to the left of the clock. In Windows Vista, you can enable the animation of network activity to determine if data is being sent or received by your network and Internet connection. The icon will light in case of network traffic. With Windows 7, this icon is not customizable, remains lifeless and shows no activity. Fortunately, you can view activity on your network and Internet connection, for example if you download or send data (upload), using the tool called Network Activity Indicator for Windows 7 that you can use instead of classic Windows 7 network icon.

[Tutorial] How To Disable 5% Remaining Battery Warning On Your Laptop With Windows 7

If you use Windows 7 on your laptop you probably notice that every time when you laptop have lower than 5% of energy left you receive a warnings message and your laptop goes into sleep mode. This can be very useful because it will because he will save current work, but in most cases that 5% converted in time is around 15 minutes, still enough of time for you to finish certain project you are working on and turn off your laptop manually. In this tutorial I will show you how to disable this 5% low battery warning with just few changes inside your Windows 7 Control Panel.