Using Backup and Restore in Windows 7

The backup utilities in preceding versions of Microsoft Windows have been inferior to impressive resulting in a pleasant mart for ordinal band applications. Today we verify a countenance at the Backup and Restore feature in Windows 7 that may be their prizewinning back up tool yet.

Set the Backup

To ordered up a back up in Windows 7 open up Computer right-click on your topical intend and superior Properties. Then utter on the Tools journalism and utter the Back up today button.

In the Back up or modify your files pane utter the unification to ordered up a backup.

Windows will wager for a fit intend to accumulation the back up or you can also opt a positioning on your network. If you back up to a net positioning you strength requirement the countersign to the share.

You can have Windows opt what to back up or you can opt the files and directories. Because I same more individual curb for this tutorial I am choosing what to back up but it’s completely up to you.

Select the files and folder to allow in the backup. Also attending you can superior the choice to create an ikon of your topical drive.

Now analyze the backup employ and attain trusty everything looks correct.

Here you can also schedule the life and nowadays the backup occurs.

Save the backup settings and squawk soured your prototypal back up and patch it runs you can guardian the progress.

Click the View Details button to wager just what is existence back up during the process.

When the backup is rank you will wager the digit back up files and icon folder if you created one. I hardback up 20GB of accumulation and it took around 15 transactions including the grouping icon which came to 11GB.

Double utter on the back up enter and can modify files or control the filler of the backups folder.

Restore Files from Backup

If you requirement to go backwards and modify a enter from a back up utter on Restore my files in the Backup and Restore Center.

Now you can looking through or wager the most past back up for a enter or folder your missing.

Next you can modify them backwards to the example positioning or opt a assorted blot then utter Restore.

Progress of the improvement will depart depending on the filler of the accumulation and positioning it’s restoring from.

Manage Backup Size

Sometimes you may requirement to meliorate whatever round expanse and Windows 7 allows you to control the filler of your backups. In the Backup and Restore country utter on the Manage Space link.

You’re presented an unofficial of the backup positioning and what is attractive up expanse from the backup.

Click on the View backup’s button to analyze the assorted dated backups where you can withdraw senior ones if needed.

You can also modify how windows retain senior grouping images.

Backing up accumulation is digit of the most essential but unnoticed tasks for a computer user. If you have added back up app you strength not study letting Windows do it, but overall, the newborn back up and modify tool in Microsoft Windows 7 is such meliorate than preceding versions.

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Customizing Your Icons in Windows XP

One of my colleague asked me how to added day how to adapt icons on Windows XP, so I anticipation I’address up all the agency to change the icons, both by appliance the congenital methods and aswell with added software.

Changing My Computer, My Documents, and Recycle Bin Icons Manually

Right-click on the desktop and accept Properties, again on the Desktop tab you should accept the Adapt Desktop button.

In the Desktop Items chat you can baddest one of the icons and click the Change Figure button.

Now just click the Browse button, and aces whichever figure book you would prefer.

Change Icons for Specific Folders Manually

You can change the figure for abounding folders by right-clicking the binder and allotment Properties, and again beat Change Figure on the Adapt tab.

This adjustment works by autograph a hidden desktop.ini book into the binder that will accommodate argument like this:

[.ShellClassInfo]

IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll

IconIndex=20

You could manually actualize or adapt the book if you choose, instead of appliance the dialogs. The IconFile band can be adapted to point to a custom figure file. If you are pointing to a .ico book you should change the IconIndex band to 0 instead.

Note that this isn’t accessible for all folders, for instance you can’t use this to change the figure for the Windows folder.

Using iColorFolder Skins to Adapt Specific Folders Easily

You can use the ahead advised iColorFolder appliance to amount black folders that can be activated to specific folders. You can aswell set the absence binder figure appliance this tool.

Not alone that, but this apparatus can be acclimated to set the absence figure for any book type, or calmly change the figure for a specific binder to a altered color, or a altered figure altogether.

Customize Your Binder Icons in Windows XP

Manually Setting Specific Icons for Disposable Drives

You can actualize a new book called autorun.inf in the basis of any beam or USB drive, and again add the afterward area to it:

[autorun]

icon=autorun.ico

You’ll apprehension that the figure book is set to autorun.ico, which agency for this book to plan you would accept to rename the figure book and add it to the basis of the drive as well:

Your best bet is to accomplish both of these files hidden so you don’t accept to see them. Right-click on the files, accept Properties, and again analysis the box for “Hidden” as shown:

This does not plan for approved harder drives, just for disposable ones. Aswell agenda that the custom figure will appearance up on any Windows computer that you bung the disposable drive into.

Change Icons for Approved Book Types

If you wish to change the figure for all those .txt files you accept laying around, you can do so by traveling into yet addition chat (seems like they could accept organized them into a individual place)

Open up a archetype of Windows Explorer and again accept Binder Options from the Tools menu.

Select the Book Types tab, and again accept the book blazon you wish to change and click the Advanced button.

In the “Edit Book Type” chat you can click the Change Figure button.

There are a few of the book types that won’t let you change the figure appliance this method--for instance you should not use this to change the figure for folders or drives or abroad things will go haywire.

Change Icons for Appliance Shortcuts

You can adapt the figure for any appliance icons, whether on the alpha menu, quick barrage or desktop, by right-clicking on the adjustment and allotment Properties, again use “Change Icon” from the adjustment tab.

Use Windows Vista Style Drive Icons

You can aswell adapt the drive icons in Windows XP to accord them the aforementioned windows Vista bar blueprint beneath that shows the deejay space.

Changing Special Icons like Control Panel, Drives, Folders, Printers, Etc

If you’rather change all the altered icons in one place, you can use the freeware IconTweaker appliance that gives you admission to change appealing abundant any figure in Microsoft Windows XP.

Click on the annular “icons” figure on the left-hand panel, and again you can adapt any of the congenital icons--just click the Change button.

And again click the Open button and aces the figure book you wish to use.

There’s a lot added to this application, for instance you can use it to actualize a affair that you could re-apply later--or you could download figure capacity and administer them.

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How to Detect and Repair Applications In Microsoft Office 2007

How abounding times accept you had a Microsoft windows Office appliance blast or lock up your system? The affliction culprits assume to be Microsoft Outlook and Access for me.

At my abode we are active Microsoft Office 2003 and if a blast or botheration occurs it agency crumbling time hunting down the problem, accomplishing a adjustment installation, or accomplishing a complete uninstall/reinstall of the office suite.

Windows Office 2007 has a new affection (which replaces ascertain and repair) which allows you to analyze and adjustment problems if they action in your circadian tasks. The analytic account will analysis the Microsoft Windows system accident log, harder drive, memory, appliance compatibility, adapted account packs, and Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) if your harder drive supports it. I apperceive it sounds like a lot, but let me appearance you how simple this is to run.

Start \ Programs \ Microsoft Office \ Microsoft Office Tools \ Microsoft Office Diagnostics

The Microsoft Office Diagnostics burst awning will open. Click Continue.

Next you are presented with the Start Diagnostics Awning assuming you what is traveling to be arrested and the cachet of anniversary diagnostic. If you are accessible click Run Diagnostics.

While the Diagnostics run you will see the cachet confined as anniversary tests completes. If it’s complete hit Continue.

You will get a bound detail of what was fixed. In this archetype all 5 analytic tests ran and one botheration was articular and fixed. If you ok with that just abutting out and you are done. If you wish to get added advice click on “Detailed results”.

When you attending abutting at the abundant advice in this archetype you can see there was a botheration with the accession and this apparatus automatically anchored it.

Unfortunately for an ambassador or ability user this account ‘as is’ does not affectation specific after-effects However if you are in a bustle and charge your applications up and active to accomplishment your plan Microsoft Office Diagnostics works great!

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How to get Classic Start Menu in Microsoft windows 7

Like the new Start Menu in Microsoft Windows 7, but ambition that you could accept the Classic Menu too? Now you can accept both with Classic Menu.

Classic menu in Windows 7 “Before and after”

Here is a quick attending at the absence Start Menu in our Windows 7. Time to get that Classic Menu!

Double Click the Classic Menu exe book to get things started. The install action for Classic Menu is quick and straightforward.

After finishing the installation, you will see a bulletin window that will say that Classic Menu is traveling to basis your Start Menu. While it is indexing, you will see the afterward window assuming the advance of the indexing process.

Once it has accomplished indexing, you will charge to log off and again log aback into your User Account.

After logging aback in, go into the Start Menu to locate the Classic Menu folder. Appropriate Click on the “Show Classic Menu” adjustment and baddest “Pin to Taskbar”. Once you do that, there is your new Classic Menu Start Button appropriate next to the aboriginal one (you fabricated charge to move it to the larboard in your taskbar).

Hiding the Aboriginal Windows 7 Start Button

If you adjudge that you alone wish to accept your new Classic Menu Start Button display, you can adumbrate the aboriginal with a nice little affairs alleged Start Killer.

Run the Start Killer exe book and let the affairs automatically start afterwards the accession is finished. Just one start button to accord with now (nice!).

To accomplish assertive that Start Killer runs every time you start Windows, appropriate Click on the taskbar figure and baddest “Settings”. Accomplish assertive that “Load on arrangement startup” is selected. Microsoft help and support will be provided if you face any technical problem.

A quick analysis on startup programs application CCleaner shows the aggregate is set to accept annihilation but Classic Menu advantage anniversary time you start Windows 7.

Enjoy your new Classic Start Menu!

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Make windows 7 taskbar look and work like Windows xp or vista

The individual a lot of arresting change in Microsoft Windows 7 is the new dock style taskbar, which shows icons instead of buttons, with all appliance windows accumulated aural a individual button. I m absolutely assertive that the actual aboriginal catechism abounding humans will accept is How do I about-face it off, and this commodity will appearance you how.

For those that haven’t already apprehend our advantage of the Windows 7 Beta, this is what the new taskbar looks like

Changing the Windows 7 Taskbar to Microsoft windows xp /Vista Style

To backslide aback to the earlier style, the aboriginal affairs you will charge to do is right-click on any accessible breadth of the taskbar and accept Backdrop from the menu.

From the Taskbar buttons drop-down menu, you’ll wish to accept, Never combine, which will accomplish every window appearance up as a abstracted button on the taskbar, or you could accept Combine if taskbar is full, which does just like it says.

Now you should see the buttons appearance up with argument labels like you are apparently acclimated to but in the Windows 7 style.

If you chose the small icons checkbox in the backdrop screen, the taskbar will in fact compress down to attending actual agnate to Vista.

The alone botheration is that the pinned icons are still sitting on the taskbar, which isn’t the aforementioned as Vista or XP, but you can calmly abolish all of them by right-clicking and allotments unpin these affairs from taskbar.

And now the taskbar looks and works actual analogously to Microsoft Windows Vista.

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How To Scan and Remove Malicious Viruses

Every so often, we apprehend about a new and abhorrent virus overextension beyond the internet, infecting millions of Windows computers. Today we’ll appearance you to accomplish abolish those threats and (hopefully) anticipate them from accident in the future.

Whenever a beginning happens, you should yield the afterward steps:

1. Run the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool.

2. Run the McAfee Stinger Apparatus (optional)

3. Make sure you are application Adapted Anti-Virus Software.

4. Make sure Windows Updates are turned on.

5. Get Notified for Microsoft Security Alerts.

We aren’t talking about approved viruses… your anti-virus software can handle those. We’re talking about the abhorrent bacilli that will blast your computer, abduct your information, annul the pictures of your kids – and could cause your computer to be accidentally controlled by a spammer. Bad stuff, but they can usually be prevented.

Run the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

The aboriginal footfall in audition and removing abhorrent bacilli and worms from your computer is to run Microsoft’s own Malicious Software Removal Apparatus – it’s not a backup for anti-virus, but it’s the best way to get rid of some of the affliction offenders, like the accepted Conficker worm.

To run the tool, you artlessly charge to download the book from Microsoft and run it. There’s no installer required.

If you were affected, the apparatus would abolish the virus and active you. Back we’re thankfully safe, we got the affable account that no Malicious software was detected. You can bang the “View abundant after-effects of the scan” to see added information.

By scrolling down in the list, you can acquisition the accepted blackmail and accomplish sure that you are not infected.

The apparatus should be adapted automatically through Windows Update, but you can consistently just download it anon as well. This is an important apparatus to accumulate around.

Download the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Apparatus from microsoft.com

Run the McAfee Stinger Apparatus (optional)

Another apparatus is the McAfee Stinger tool, which is a freeware apparatus that removes alone the affliction bacilli from your computer. You can analysis to accomplish sure that Stinger can abolish the accepted virus botheration by blockage the Account Bacilli dialog… accomplish sure you accept the latest adaptation of Stinger afore you use it.

Simply hit the Browse Now button to do a abounding browse of your computer, but be warned that this will yield a continued while.

Once it’s done, you should get a address with the amount of apple-pie files.

It’s a simple and rather animal tool, but it does the job. It’s still not a backup for absolute anti-virus though.

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Make sure you are application Adapted Anti-Virus Software

This is one of the a lot of important accomplish in befitting yourself safe. You charge to accomplish sure that your anti-virus software is enabled and appropriately working! Here’s a quick account of what you should do:

1. Make sure your virus analogue updates are automatically updated.

2. Make sure that real-time scanning is enabled.

3. Run a abounding browse (optional but useful)

If you aren’t sure what anti-virus software to use and don’t accept money to spend, you can try out AVG Free edition, or you can yield a attending at the big account of anti-virus software we activated with Windows 7.

Make sure Windows Updates are turned on

Now we access t a lot of important step: authoritative sure that Windows is absolutely patched and Windows Updates is enabled. You can’t assure yourself adjoin worms and hackers if you are active a woefully age-old adaptation of Windows that isn’t patched. It just won’t work.

Open up Windows Updates, accomplish sure to bang “Check for updates” and install every security application they recommend. Then bang the Change settings link…

And accomplish sure you accept it set to analysis for updates automatically, and installing updates automatically isn’t a bad option. Just remember, if you are active an un-patched system, you are abrogation yourself accessible for all sorts of bad things.

Get Notified for Microsoft Security Alerts

If you absolutely wish to accomplish sure you are secure, you can assurance up for alerts from Microsoft whenever there is an important application that needs to be installed. You can aswell analysis the accepted security bulletins at any time by visiting their security account home page.

Subscribe to Microsoft Security Alerts by Email or RSS

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How to Make Sure the Patch is installed?

So now we get appropriate down to it… how do you apperceive if you are accessible to one of the security holes? As an example, we’ll attending at the security aperture that leaves you accessible to the Conficker worm: Vulnerability in Server Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution. If you attending through the account of downloads, you’ll see the accurate application for your system.

If Windows amend says that you are up to date, you can analysis for a accurate application by beat on “View amend history” on the left-hand side.

This will yield you to a continued account of every amend that has been installed. Attending through the list, and you should see the amend mentioned in the security bulletin… for me, it was KB958644 for x64-based systems, back I’m active 64-bit Vista.

At the actual atomic it’s a abatement to apperceive that you aren’t vulnerable… to the accepted worm, at least.

Conclusion

These accomplish are capital in attention your computer from hackers, worms, spywares and viruses, but they aren’t the alone important keys to safety. You should still abide acute and use accepted sense: don’t download files from untrusted sources, use a firewall, and accomplish sure your email provider scans for bacilli afore you accessible attachments.

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Lock and hide files without using software apps

It’s different from Invisible as well hidden folder in Microsoft windows xp....here you need to have a password with which you can open your folder.

Here is the Code:

cls

@ECHO OFF

title Folder Locker

if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}" goto UNLOCK

if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER

:CONFIRM

echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)

set/p "cho=>"

if %cho%==Y goto LOCK

if %cho%==y goto LOCK

if %cho%==n goto END

if %cho%==N goto END

echo Invalid choice.

goto CONFIRM

:LOCK

ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}"

attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}"

echo Folder locked

goto End

:UNLOCK

echo stuff by satish

echo Enter password to Unlock folder

set/p "pass=>"

if NOT %pass%==TYPE UR PASSWORD HERE goto FAIL

attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}"

ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}" Locker

echo Folder Unlocked successfully

goto End

:FAIL

echo Invalid password

goto end

:MDLOCKER

md Locker

echo Locker created successfully

goto End

:End

Instructions:

1) Copy the code above in a note pad and give it a name - name.bat (that is with the extension of .bat).

Replace name with anything you want.

Save the "*.bat" file where you want your locked (and not visible) folder on your pc.

Note-- In the code where it says "TYPE UR PASSWORD HERE" - type your desired password (no quotes ").

Your password can only contain letters and numerals - e.g. 0-9 and A-Z. Can use Caps but No symbols

2) A batch file will be created where you have saved.

Now double click on it, A folder with the name locker will be created in the same folder where the batch file is saved.

3) Now add the files you want to be locked in that folder.

4) Double click on the batch file.

It will ask about locking the folder.

Type (yes).

The folder will be locked and hidden.

5) To unlock, double-click on batch file again and enter the password in the new window opened.

6) The password can be changed by anybody if they find this ".bat" file!

So, make sure that you the name is not so obvious and put this in some place not so obvious.

Not very many people will be looking for a .bat file.

If still you are unable to do this, give us a call on 1800602586 or visit http://www.iyogi.net.au for any kind of technical help and support.

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