Tag: Settings
How To Setup 2 Finger Right Click on Windows Notebooks
Mousepads on Windows notebooks are getting better and better these days, and if you happen to have a notebook with a Synaptics clickable mousepad, or ClickPad, you can do more than mutlitouch gestures — you can setup multifinger mouseclicks. The most important of which is a two finger right click. Rather than hunting for a mouse button, [...]
How to Send From Your Facebook.com Email Address in Gmail
Now that you’ve claimed your Facebook email, we want to show you how to set up Gmail so that you can send from your @Facebook.com email address right within Gmail. Right now you can’t check your Facebook email in Gmail, but if you have Facebook set up to email you when you receive a new message you will get [...]
How to Reinstall Windows 7 From Scratch: An Effective Method for a Clean Install
Yes, I said effectively, there is always a right way to do something and installing Windows 7 is no different. I have discussed many times the virtues of using system imaging in Windows 7, but sometimes you just want to start things from scratch with a clean slate. This can be beneficial by removing any gunk [...]
How to Set Default Programs and Use Open With and Always Open With Settings
When you install Windows 7 or get a new PC with Windows 7 installed, by default, there are programs setup to do certain things. Whether it’s editing text, viewing images, listening to music or some other common task Windows has a default program to get you going. The programs that come set as the default [...]
How to Backup to an External Hard Drive
In a previous Notebooks.com article we looked at using System Imaging as handy way to backup our entire computer. The benefits being, you are able to keep a safe replica of your system in a working state. System Images though can be quite large, using a lot of hard disk space that might not be [...]
Using Windows Easy Transfer in Windows 7
So far we have looked at two ways of installing Windows 7 on your PC – Clean/Custom Install or In-Place Upgrading. Many persons will be buying Windows 7 on a new PC when its released and would like to get their personal data from an old PC to the new PC running Windows 7. Windows 7 offers an easy, convenient way to make the move with the built in Windows Easy Transfer utility. As you can see in the screenshot below, I have a lot of files on my old PC running Windows 7, and I would like to get those files over safely over to my new computer also running Windows 7.
