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Keyboard and mouse

So you prepared everything you need to clean up those overused input devices of yours and realized you have to either shut down your computer or crouch under a dusty desk to unplug them?

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Ever needed to burn a large amount of data on CD/DVD  and it took you a lot of time because you had to organize and distribute the files to fill each dvd? Using software that supports the technique called Disc Spanning you don’t have to worry about that no more.

Disc Spanning allows you to burn a large amount of data on multiple discs without having to worry about organizing the files on each disc. There are several programs that support disc spanning but in this tutorial we will be using the application called CDBurnerXP . This little piece of software will help you make your life much easier in terms of data burning. In most cases the files that are burned using disc spanning are pictures, movies, libraries, backups, etc, but you can burn whatever you want as long as the size of one file is not bigger than the maximum capacity of the disc.

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Ever had cases when you had to move files from one folder to another in Windows Explorer and you had to always switch between windows? You could make your life easier with a feature called tabbed browsing. This feature is the same as the one found in Web Browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, etc, which helps alot when dealing with multiple windows and helps you keep it organised. In the latest versions of Windows like Vista and 7, new features were implemented to Explorer to make browsing easier and faster for us. The tabbed browsing feature does not come by default with Windows, but can be achieved by using a free software called QTTabBar. This program implements some usefull feature that can improve your browsing experience alot.

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There are cases when Windows cannot be installed on a computer or notebook because the CD/DVD drive isn’t working or it doesn’t exist at all. Still, there is another way to do it without this drive, and this article will show you how to install Windows XP/Vista/7/8 using a USB flash drive.

We will show you here how to setup an USB flash drive to become bootable and have the desired operating system setup files on it. To do this, you will need a USB flash drive and the help of a free software that makes this process alot easier. At the time when this method went into practice, this process was laborius and alot of steps were required, in order to do a USB flash drive bootable and have the setup files on it. With the help of Novicorp’s WinToFlash software, you will get this done in no time.

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Have you ever had a clean desktop icon layout and it was ruined because of a software or game that had a smaller screen resolution? In this article we will show you how to save and restore your desktop icon layout so you won’t be surprised by this issue when it happens. To be able to do this correctly on all of these operating systems you will need a free software that can help you with this problem. After numerous testings of softwares, we found one that handled well on 64-bit Windows 7  and didn’t fail at restoring the exact location of the desktop icons like other programs did on this OS. The name of this software is: IconRestorer by FSL which you can find out more and download from here.

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Upon opening Windows Explorer under Windows 7, by default it opens the Libraries view. In this article we will show you how to change that startup folder to another location like My Computer or My Documents.

The Windows Explorer can be opened using the button pinned by default on the Windows 7 taskbar or by accessing it via Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Windows Explorer. You might preffer using your Windows Explorer to open other folders by default which  is most commonly used.

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By default, Windows 7 comes without the Quick Launch bar, which you can find at any fresh install of Windows XP and Vista. This article will show you a simple way to enable it and customize it as you please. On the customization part, you will see how to properly move this bar in the position you like and adjust other settings, such as show titles and text, small or big icons, that will help you get the look you want for your quick launch bar.

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There are people, Mac fans even, that find the startup sound annoying. As a proud Mac owner, I don’t find the startup sound stressful or annoying in any way, on the contrary, not only that lets everyone know that there’s another Mac user in range but the sound itself indicates that the hardware startup testing has been successful.

Now, for all those who need to know how to disable the startup sound, there are 2 methods, the easy mode or the software mode.

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