Downgrade to IE8 from IE9 in windows 7/Vista

By | May 20, 2012

If you don’t like IE9 or just want to downgrade it to IE 8 because an issue with IE 9.Please follow below steps to uninstall IE 9 and downgrade it to IE8

1.Click Start Button,then type “Remove” in the search box,then click Add or Remove programs

2.In the left pane,click  View installed updates[......]

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Move Windows 7 to New Hard Disk

By | April 23, 2012

This tutorial will show you how to move windows 7 to new disk using windows 7 system backup and restore.

1.Create a system image to your usb disk

2.Power off your computer and replace your old hard disk with your new hard disk

3.boot from your windows 7 installation DVD or system repair cd[......]

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The drive is not a valid backup location

By | March 28, 2012

Today I tried to backup up my windows 7 to a USB pen(flash) drive,I got the error “The drive is not a valid backup location”,see below screenshot:

After search from internet,I found Windows does not support to backup system image to a usb flash pen drive,you can clear here to see the detail descr[......]

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Set Bios to Boot from cd dvd usb drive

By | March 22, 2012

When we want to do some task like reinstall OS ,we need to boot from cd / dvd or usb,below will show you the simple steps to setup bios to boot from cd or dvd or usb drive.

1.Reboot or power-on your pc,press Delete key to enter bios setup.(For some pc like DELL you need to press F2 or F12 instead[......]

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windows 7 show run in start menu

By | September 25, 2011

By default windows 7 does no show run command in start menu,so please follow below steps to customize start menu and enable run command in start menu.

1.Right-click your Start icon and click Properties.

2.In the Taskbar and Start menu properties window,click Customize

3.Scroll down[......]

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Personalize windows 7 starter / Home basic

By | September 24, 2011

This guide will show you how to personalize windows 7 starter ,such as change background wallpaper , using Personaliztion Panel

1.Download Personaliztion Panel from softpedia

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/Personalization-Panel.shtml

2.Install Personaliztion Panel on your c[......]

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windows 7 change power button action

By | September 18, 2011

In windows 7,you can choose what action happens when you press the power button . The computer can shut down, sleep, hibernate, or do nothing. You can apply the same setting to all of your power plans or you can apply different settings to individual power plans.

1.Go to control Panel (Small icon[......]

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Use small icons on desktop in windows 7

By | September 12, 2011

If you feel the desktop icons are a little large, you can use small icons on desktop or change the desktop icons size of desktop easily in windows 7 using the below ways.

Method 1:

On your desktop,press and hold CTRL key,then  roll your mouse wheel up  and down until you have the custom icon s[......]

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Windows 7 how to Delete File being used

By | February 24, 2011

In Windows, we always encounter “The action can’t be completed because file is open…” (file in use) problem while deleting a file. It’s because a running process are using the file you want to remove, and to delete the file the associated process must be ended first. Before, we need a third-party[......]

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Quickly Extract and Save images from Word/Powerpoint/Excel

By | December 15, 2010

As we know, normal way to extract and save an image from an office document is right-click on the image and select to save it. But what if there are too much images in the document, save them one by one?

Here is a way to quickly extract and save them from word, powerpoint, and excel documents.[......]

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