How to Turn Off Autoplay in Windows 7
When you insert a CD or DVD into the disc drive on your Windows 7 computer, it probably launches a program based on the type …
Microsoft Windows 7
How-to guides and tutorials about topics related to the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system and ways that you can adjust the settings for it.
Where Did My Desktop Icons Go in Windows 7?
Are you accustomed to navigating your computer and its files largely from the desktop? This is a convenient location where you may save your important …
How to Lock the Screen After Inactivity in Windows 7
Locking your computer when you are away from it is an effective way to make sure that others can’t use it without knowing your password. …
How to Hide File Extensions in Windows 7
File names are very important when you are browsing your computer and looking for something in particular. When you couple this with some shortcuts to …
How to Stop HTML Files from Opening in Notepad in Windows 7
There are a number of different file types that you can view in Web browsers, and different websites employ different file types based on the …
How to Display a Keyboard on the Screen in Windows 7
If you ever encounter a broken keyboard, then you might think that you are out of options for entering letters, numbers, or symbols into programs …
How to Add a Font in Microsoft Paint
Microsoft Paint has a text tool that you can use to write words and numbers on your images. But what if you have a fun …
How to Delete All Stored Passwords in Internet Explorer in Windows 7
Storing passwords for your favorite websites in your Web browser is a convenient feature that can save you some hassle on your personal computer. But …
How to Enable Automatic Updates for Adobe Flash Player
Adobe Flash Player is a program that is used by a lot of websites to display feature-rich content. But it is not included by default …
How to Show the Navigation Pane in Windows 7
Windows Explorer is the application on your Windows 7 computer that you probably use to browse through your folders and files. The Windows Explorer display …
How to Move the Taskbar to the Side of the Screen in Windows 7
The taskbar in Windows 7 is a crucial element in how you interact with the computer. It contains the Start button that provides access to …
How to Remove a Program from the Taskbar in Windows 7
The taskbar is the bar at the bottom of the screen in Windows 7 (or possibly the side or top if you have adjusted the …
Do I have 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7?
Windows 7 comes in a variety of different versions, and each version is appropriate for different types of users. And while the choice of versions …
How to Zip a Powerpoint 2010 File
Many Powerpoint files can become very large, especially if you have included a lot of media such as pictures, audio, or video. If a Powerpoint presentation …
Windows 7 Screen Upside Down – How to Fix It
Have you ever walked away from your computer screen, only to come back and find that everything was upside down? This can happen either as …
How to Put a Control Panel Icon on the Desktop in Windows 7
There are an incredible amount of settings and options that you can configure in Windows 7 to suit your preferences. Whether you want to change …
How to Make Spotify Not Open on Startup in Windows 7
Music programs like iTunes and Spotify are popular options for managing and listening to music on your computer. But, like many programs that you install …
How to Remove the File Name from a Printed Document in Windows 7 Notepad
Notepad is a free text editor included with every copy of Windows 7, and it provides a very basic tool for creating and printing text …
Where is the Recycle Bin in Windows 7?
The Trash Can or Recycle Bin icon in Windows has been a part of desktop computer layouts for years. Deleted items went there, and you could …
How to Get Windows Explorer in the Windows 7 Taskbar
There are a lot of different ways to navigate through Windows 7, but one of the ones that I use the most is simply clicking …
How to Set a Password for Your User Account in Windows 7
Are there other people in your house or office that you do not want to be able to use your computer? One simple way to …
How to Delete Everything on a USB Flash Drive
Is your USB flash drive becoming very full, and you need to use it to store or transport other files? The solution to this problem …
How to Format a USB Flash Drive to FAT32 in Windows 7
USB flash drives can be used with electronic devices other than your computer. Some set-top streaming boxes and video game consoles can read and store …
How to Restore Hidden Desktop Icons in Windows 7
You may wonder how to restore hidden desktop icons in Windows 7 if someone else has hidden them as a prank, or if you accidentally …
Where is My Windows 7 Taskbar?
The Windows 7 taskbar provides an easy place to access your running programs, your Start button, and any quick launch icons that you may have …
How to Change the Desktop Picture in Windows 7
The desktop on your Windows 7 computer is the first thing that you see after you log into Windows, and it is one of the …
How to Put Files on a Flash Drive
If you work on multiple computers, or if you need to take files to another location to have them printed, then it’s important to be …
How to Set the Default Printer in Windows 7
Most modern printers include helpful installation programs that will almost completely configure the printer so that it can be used effectively on your computer. This …
Faster Way to Rename Files in Windows 7
The right-click shortcut menu in Windows 7 is very useful and once you start using it, you will find that it becomes your preferred method …
How to Create a Dropbox Shortcut on Your Desktop in Windows 7
Cloud storage services like Dropbox are great solutions when you need to back up important files, or store files in a location where you can …
How to Remove the Windows Media Player Icon from the Taskbar
The taskbar at the bottom of your screen in Windows 7 is a great place to put links to programs, because it is always visible. …
How to Add a Favorite Location in Windows 7
Windows Explorer is the application that opens whenever you have a folder open in Windows 7. It can be accessed quickly by clicking the folder …
How to Change the Default Program for GIF Files in Windows 7
Windows 7 ships with a number of presets for opening certain types of files. These presets are based upon the programs that a default Windows …
Select Items in a Windows 7 Folder to Count Them
You can find out a lot of information about your files in Windows 7 by simply selecting them and viewing the information at the bottom …
How to Create a New User in Windows 7
When you initially set up your computer in Windows 7, you created a user account with administrator privileges. This configured the computer for one user, …
How Do You Change Your Computer Name in Windows 7
There are two primary ways that Windows 7 identifies your computer. The first is through a user name that you sign into when you start …
How to Change the Name of a Memory Card in Windows 7
While external hard drives and memory cards were previously not devices that were used by everyone, our increasingly computer-driven and data-dependent culture has demanded that …
How to Change a Wireless Network Security Key in Windows 7
Windows 7 does a great job of remembering the security and password information for wireless networks to which you have connected in the past. But …
How to Optimize a Folder in Windows 7
Windows 7, like many previous versions of the Windows operating system, gives you a couple of different folders by default that are meant to store …
How to Change What the Power Button Does in Windows 7
There are many different ways that people manage their computers when they are done using them. Some people like to turn off their computers by …
How to Change Screen Resolution for Windows 7
Screen resolution is not something that a lot of people think about until it becomes a problem. But, when your screen resolution is incorrect, it …
How to Create a Control Panel Icon on the Desktop in Windows 7
The Control Panel is an extremely useful set of tools that you can use to customize nearly every setting or experience on your computer. But, …
How Do I Restore Taskbar to Bottom of Screen in Windows 7?
You may be wondering how to move the taskbar to the bottom of the screen if you have turned on your computer and found that …
How to Hide the Recycle Bin from the Desktop in Windows 7
People use their desktops in Windows 7 in a variety of ways. Some people like to save everything to their Desktop because they know how …
How to Uninstall a Program in Windows 7
Whether you have been using your Windows 7 computer for a long time, or have just purchased a brand new computer, you will inevitable need …
How to Manually Run Windows Update in Windows 7
The Windows Update feature helps to provide you with updates that are available for your operating system. Typically it will install these updates at convenient …
How to Remove a Program Icon From the Taskbar
You might have heard the term “taskbar” before if you were trying to solve some problems with your computer, but you might not be familiar …
Stop Windows 7 Laptop Computer from Going to Sleep
While it’s easy to understand why most laptop users would want their computers to automatically go to sleep after a certain time in order to …
Move the Dropbox Folder Location on Your PC
Dropbox is a very popular cloud storage application, and one of the reasons for this popularity is because of the number of devices on which …
How to Access SkyDrive from Desktop
Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud storage service rivals the offerings available from both Dropbox and Google Drive. You can upload files to your SkyDrive account either through …