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Disable or Delete Internet Explorer from Windows 7

To uninstall Internet Explorer 8 or 9, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, then click Control Panel.

2. Click Programs and Features.

3. In the Task pane, click Turn Windows features on or off.

4. In the list of windows features, click to clear the check box next to Internet Explorer 8.

5. You will get a confirmation box when you uncheck it saying it may affect other Windows features.all it means is everything that use to open in IE will now open in your new default browser.

6. In this window, click Yes to the warning message.

The system restarts after Internet Explorer 8 or 9 is uninstalled. if not restart the System manually.

Fix System Tray Tooltips Not Displaying in Windows XP

There’s a bug in Fix System Tray Tooltips Not Displaying in Windows XP where sometimes the system tray tooltips and popup notifications will show up behind the taskbar, or behind other windows.

The way to make everything start working again is to do the following:

Right click the taskbar, choose properties, and uncheck the checkbox that says “Keep task bar on top of other windows”.
Click Apply
Check the checkbox again.
Click Apply again.

This will temporarily make the system work right again, but you may have to repeat these steps if it happens again.

Note: Neosmart has created a small application that will fix this problem.

Download ToolTipFixer from NeoSmart

Turn Off Automatic Window Resizing in Windows 7

Dragging a window to one edge of the screen it would “dock” there and it will re-size to fill half the screen or full screen. some users might prefer to turn off the feature entirely and go back to resizing windows as they see fit.

To Turn Off Automatic Window Resizing:

1. Click Start, Control panel, then click Ease of Access Center.

2. Scroll down and click Make the mouse easier to use.

3. Scroll down to and Checkmark: Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen.

4. Click OK and you’re done!

Now your windows won’t dock or re-size when you drag it to the edge of the screen.

Change Windows 7 Starter Edition Wallpaper

Change Wallpaper Windows 7 Starter Edition

Changing the Wallpaper in Windows 7 Starter Edition is not as easy as it use to be, on previous Operating Systems. I don’t even want to comment on that.

Here is the solution:

1. Download and Install Starter Background Changer

2. Once installed, Right click on the desktop and Click on Personalize.

3. Then Click on Wallpaper.

4. Click on Choose to Browse for the image you would like to set as a wallpaper.

5. Once you have selected the image click on Validate the modification.

That is it….

easier way of shutting down, restarting, your Windows 8

How to Add Shutdown / Restart to the Windows 8 Metro UI Start Screen

Shutting down Windows 8 is different from previous Operating Systems. This is an easier way of shutting down, restarting, your computer. By adding tiles to the Windows 8 Metro UI Start Screen.

Click the Desktop tile on the Metro UI Start Screen to access the Desktop.
Right-click on the Desktop and select New > Shortcut from the popup menu.
Enter shutdown.exe -s -t 00 command in the Type the location of the item edit box and click Next.
Enter Shut Down in the Type a name for this shortcut edit box and click Finish.
Change the shortcut image, right-click on the shortcut and select
Select shortcut tab on the Properties dialog box and Click Change Icon
Selected an icon from the Properties dialog box. Click OK
Copy the the shortcut from the desktop.
Paste the shortcut into the following directory: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
You should be able to see the Shut down tile on the Metro UI Start Screen. Just one click to shut down your Computer

To add tiles for Restart, Lock Workstation, enter the following commands on the Shortcut wizard.

Restart Computer: shutdown.exe -r -t 00
Lock Workstation: rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

How to Create Roaming Profile on Windows Server 2003

Roaming profiles users are able to get their desktop environment on every computer which is client of a domain controller. Configuration of Roaming User Profiles involves 2 processes: Sharing a Folder and Configuring Domain Users’ Profile page.

1. Create a Share a Folder

Log on to the domain controller with the credentials of Domain Administrator.
Create a folder on drive C: and name it Profiles. (You can give any name to this folder)
Share Profiles folder right-click on it and from the context menu select Properties.
On the Properties page go to Sharing tab and select Share this folder radio button.
Leave the default share name intact and click on Permissions button.
Make sure that in Share Permissions window under Groups or user names frame Everyone group is selected and in Permissions to Everyone frame under Allow column check the checkbox opposite to Full Control option.
Click on Ok button on all windows to accept and confirm your settings.

2. Configuring Domain Users’ Profile.

Click on Start button and go to Administrative Tools.
From Administrative Tools sub-menu click on Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.
When opened, from the left pane expand the domain name (domain name.com in this case) and from the list select Users container.
From the right pane right click on the user name for which you want to configure roaming profile and select Properties. You can also select multiple users by pressing Ctrl key while selecting users. This will enable you to configure roaming user profile for multiple users in a single session.
In the Properties window go to Profile tab.
In the Profile path text box type the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path for the shared folder. In this example it would be \\192.168.1.118\Profiles\USERNAME where 192.168.1.118 is the computer name, USERNAME will be replaced with the name of the user account.

Once done with the above configuration click on Ok button to accept and confirm the settings.Next time when the user will log on to the domain his profile will be saved in a sub folder which will be created under Profiles shared folder. Name of the sub folder will be the name of the user for whom roaming profile is configured. Every time the user will use a domain client computer to log on his profile will be downloaded for this sub folder and will be saved back in this folder when the user will log off.

How to install Ubuntu on VirtualBox

In this Video tutorial I used Ubuntu 11.10, but the same applies to, any previous or future version of Ubuntu. Actually, you can install any Linux distribution this way.

VirtualBox allows you to run an entire operating system inside another operating system. Please be aware that you should have a minimum of 512 MB of RAM. 1 GB of RAM or more is recommended.

Installation Process

The first thing you have to do is Download Ubuntu
Download VirtualBox.

Installation

1. After you launch VirtualBox from the Windows Start menu.

2. Click on New to create a new virtual machine.

3. When the New Virtual Machine Wizard appears, click Next.

Note: You can call the machine whatever you want. If you’re installing Ubuntu, it makes sense to call it Ubuntu, I guess. You should also specify that the operating system is Linux.

4. VirtualBox will try to guess how much of your memory (or RAM) to allocate for the virtual machine. If you have 1 GB or less of RAM, I would advise you stick with the recommendation. If, however, you have over 1 GB, about a quarter your RAM or less should be fine. For example, if you have 2 GB of RAM, 512 MB is fine to allocate. If you have 4 GB of RAM, 1 GB is fine to allocate. If you have no idea what RAM is or how much of it you have, just go with the default.Click Next.

5. Then you do want to Create new hard disk and then click Next.Click Next again.

6.. A dynamically expanding virtual hard drive is best, because it’ll take up only what you actually use.

7. Ubuntu’s default installation is less than 8 GB. If you plan on adding software or downloading large files in your virtualized Ubuntu, you can make it larger. Click Finish and wait for the virtual hard drive to be created.Click Finish

8. The next thing to do is to add the downloaded Ubuntu disk image (the .iso) boot on your virtual machine. Click on start you’ll see a little folder icon. Click that, and you can Browse for the Ubuntu .iso you downloaded earlier.Once you’ve selected it, click OK.

9. Once it’s started up, just follow the regular installation procedure as if you were installing Ubuntu on a real hard drive (instead of a virtual one).

10. Afterwards, in order to use your virtualized installation (instead of continually booting the live CD), you have to delete the IDE controller by going to settings,Storage delete the IDE controller.

How to Create a Virtual Hard Drive in Windows 7

A Virtual Hard Disk allows multiple operating systems to reside on a single machine. This method enables everyone to test software on different operating systems without the cost or hassle of installing a second hard disk or creating a separate partition on a single hard disk. The ability to directly modify a virtual machine’s hard disk from a host server supports many applications, including:

Moving files between a VHD and the host file system
Backup and recovery
Antivirus and security
Image management and patching
Disk conversion (physical to virtual, and so on)
Life-cycle management and provisioning
Mapped in the network

One of the new features in Windows 7 is the ability to create Virtual Hard Disks.

1. Right-click on My Computer and select to Manage. Alternately you can type diskmgmt.msc into the Start search box and enter.

2. In the Computer Management screen select Disk Management then click Action and Create VHD from the dropdown.

3. Browse to the directory you want the disk to reside, choose the size you want it to be, and select dynamic or a fixed. If you want the disk to expand in size as you add files to it, then choose Dynamically expanding. Check Fixed size if you want a specific size and for it to stay that way.

4. In Disk Management you will see the virtual drive listed in blue as unallocated space.

5. Right-click and select Initialize Disk. To begin using it.

6. In the initialize disk box just keep MBR selected and hit OK.

7. Now create a volume by Right-clicking the unallocated space and select New Simple Volume.

8. Click next on the Simple Volume Wizard

9. Choose the amount of space you want to use for the volume. leave it default to use the full volume.

10. Assign it a dive letter from the drop down that is not currently being used.

11. Format the new volume as NTFS, FAT32, or FAT.

12. Click on Finish and the wizard is complete.

If you have AutoPlay enabled it should pop up for you to open up your new virtual hard disk. You will also see it listed under My Computer.

How to Install DHCP on Windows Server 2008

To do this, you will need a Windows Server 2008 system already installed and configured with a static IP address and Active directory. You will need to know your network’s IP address range, the range of IP addresses you will want to hand out to your PC clients, your DNS server IP addresses, and your default gateway. Additionally, you will want to have a plan for all subnets involved, what scopes you will want to define, and what exclusions you will want to create.

1. Click on Start then Click on Server Manager, click Roles from the Left then Click on Add Roles.

2. When the Add Roles Wizard comes up, you can click Next on that screen.

Note: have a static IP address assigned on your server, and a Strong Password.

3. Select the DHCP Server Role, and click Next.

Note: Plan the IP network information, scope information, and DNS information. If you only want to install DHCP server with no configured scopes or settings, you can just click Next.

4.Select the network Connection Bindings by selecting the Network connection that is going to assign IP addresses to your clients then click on Next.

5. Validate Your DNS Settings. to make sure everything is fine.

6. Type the address of the WINS server if you are using one. if not then leave it as default and click next

7. Click on add, to add a DHCP scope.

8. Now Name yous Scope, Type the starting IP range and the ending IP address, subnet mask and default gateway which is optional.

9. Make sure activate the Scope is check. Click OK then Click Next.

10. in the video I do not Have IPv6 so there is no need to Configure DHCPv6 so click Disable and click next.

11.leave the authorization default and click next. Unless you are a user.

12. Confirm the Installation and click install, and that is it you are Done!!

How to Hide a Hard Disk or Partition in Windows

Do you need to hide or dismount a partition so that other users can no longer view it and write files on it? This video tutorial shows how to do this both. It also shows how to unhide partitions, in case you need to use them again.

1. Go to the Start Menu, right-click on Computer, and select Manage. This will bring up your Computer Management window.

2. On the left-hand side, select Disk Management Under Storage section.

3. In the Disk Management section, you’ll see the right-hand side of the window populate with your disk information, showing you the name, size, and type of each partition for the disks on your system.

4. There you can see a list with all the Hard Disk and Partitions on your computer.

5. Right click on the Hard Disk or Partition you want to hide and select “Change Drive Letter and Paths“.

6. In the “Change Drive Letter and Paths” window, click on the Remove button.

7. You are asked to confirm the removal of the drive letter. Click Yes.

8. Now is hidden (dismounted)

NOTE: Make sure you close all the applications that might be using files from that partition and then click Yes, to continue the drive letter removal operation. the partition will never be available to users, unless you choose to unhide (mount) it.

How to install Windows 8 using a USB flash drive

Windows 8: Access Control Panel In Its Traditional, Non-Metro UI

Here is how to get faster access to the Control Panel on Windows 8.

1. On the Desktop. Right click the Desktop. Select Personalize.

2. The Personalization window opens. Click Change Desktop Icons.

3. Next, the Desktop Icon Settings screen displays. Check Control Panel and any other icons you want to display on the Desktop. Click OK.

4. Then close out of the Personalization window.

5. Back on the Desktop, you’ll find the Control Panel icon. Just double click the icon to launch Control Panel.

How to Restart or Shut Down Windows via Remote Desktop

The Shutdown command is not available on the Start menu to shut down and restart, when you are using Remote Desktop.

So what do you do if you actually want to restart the remote machine? Click on a blank area of the desktop and press Alt + F4 or CTRL + ALT + END the RDP screen will give you a list of options.

Other alternatives

1. Press CTRL+ALT+END to get to the Task Manager, and then click Shutdown (apparently does not always work).

2. Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to get to the Task Manager.

3. Right click on the TaskBar and select the Task Manager.

4. For the Classic Start Menu, left click on Start, Settings, Windows Security to get to the Task Manager.

5. Click Start, Run, type “shutdown -i” (without the quotes), click OK, to get a GUI that apparently doesn’t use the Task Manager

6. Click Start, Run, type “shutdown -r -t xx” (without the quotes) [xx=how many xx seconds to execute this command], click OK (I’ve not tried this myself).

7: Click on a blank area of the desktop or taskbar, press Alt + F4, and the standard Stand By, Turn Off, Restart dialog appears.

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