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How to Install Windows from a USB Flash Drive

How to Install Windows from a USB Flash Drive
If you have a damaged CDROM drive and want to install Windows on your computer or laptop, then I recommend that you use Novicorp WinToFlash, which allows you to boot Windows operating systems from a USB flash drive. Getting Started 1- Download first Novicorp WinToFlash from the publisher's website. 2- Connect now your USB flash drive to your computer and format it: 3- Double click on WinToFlash.exe to launch the software, then select Advanced mode tab: 4- Now select the operating system that you are going to use, for my part I will select, for example, Windows XP. 5- Select now Windows source path (where i386 folder is located), then select your USB drive. 6- A small window pops up, select I Accepted the terms of the license agreement, then click Continue: 7- A warning message will pop up informing you that all your USB flash drive data will be erased, click OK: 8- The software will now format and transfer Windows files to your USB flash drive: 10- That's it.

Change The Windows 7 Logon Background [How-To] Windows 7 comes packed with a lot of new and interesting backgrounds. However Windows 7 fails to include an easy way to change the background you see every single time you login to your computer. Perhaps you want a little flavor, or maybe you just don’t like the built-in background. Whatever the case may be, with this groovy trick you can change the background for both your Windows 7 logon screen and the menu you see whenever you hit CTRL+ALT+DEL . [learn_more caption="Editor Update 7/27/11"]After much feedback in the comments, if you’re not comfortable updating the system registry – I recommend you read this groovyPost which reviews the process of updating the Winodws 7 logon background using a freeware tool instead.[/learn_more] A few things to note about your background image Okay… that handles the fine print, lets get started. How To Change The WIndows 7 Logon Background And CTRL+ALT+DEL Menu Background 2. Double-Click the key OEMBackground and change the value from 0 to 1. 3. 4.

Clone Your Computer on a USB Drive – Why Carry That Heavy Laptop If you can’t travel with the laptop but still need access to all your software programs, preferences and data, try the free Mojopac – it installs your entire Windows computer on a USB Drive or even an iPod. Read the Mojopac review If you are working across multiple computers that are not connected to each other, you probably use the good old USB drive (or external hard drive) to store and carry your Office documents, Photoshop drawings, personal pictures and other multimedia files. Perfect. That computer neither has Microsoft Office for creating PowerPoint presentations or Excel sheets, nor Photoshop and AutoCAD for you to edit those important CAD drawings. What if you could carry all your favorite software applications (and their settings), Office files, emails and everything else with you on a portable drive? Well, your dreams can come true with Mojopac from Ringcube – an absolutely brilliant tool that very-easily clones your existing computing environment onto any USB Drive.

10 software that can raise dead hard disk | Globalthoughtz by Leplan on February 14th, 2010 Have you ever spent hours working on a document when suddenly the power goes out and you discover that, you have failed to save your work and have lost everything you’d worked on? Have you ever turned on your computer to find that a virus has wiped much of your hard drive content? Perhaps you’ve even deleted an email out of your trash bin only to find that you desperately needed the information inside it for work? All of these are very real problems and data recovery software is an equally real solution for all of them. Img Source: data-recovery.mirandasbeach.com Through data recovery software you can recover files that were compressed and encrypted. With the latest generation of the data recovery software you can also recover files that have been deleted from your recycle bin, have become damaged or are stored on a hard drive, CD or DVD that has developed bad sectors. 1. 2. Img Soruce: ww.recovermyfiles.com 3. 4. Img Source: screenshots.en.softonic.com 5.

Your friends, files and digital life on any computer The Cloud Web Desktop that was formerly known as icloud.com has been available through the CloudMe service for a transition period in order to not interrupt anything for its users. It has now been time for the WebOS to find a new home and the CloudTop company has taken over the popular desktop. For you as a user, this means that there is one dedicated company that will give the virtual desktop and online computer the full attention it deserves. Everything is different Nothing has changed CloudTop will as a CloudMe Ready partner continue to use CloudMe as its online storage and authentication service. Change your online computer bookmark to the following for continued access: For CloudMe users that have not yet tried the desktop, you can try CloudTop at any time and use your CloudMe login. Please note that CloudMe will not continue to support CloudTop, all support issues for CloudTop goes through its forum,

PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives 99 ways to make your computer blazingly fast Over the last several years working in IT for various companies as a Systems Administrator, a Network Administrator, and a Help Desk professional, I’ve written and learned about many ways to increase the performance of not only my PC, but also of the many PCs on my networks ranging from Windows 98 to Windows 10. In this article, I hope to compile a huge list of all the different methods and tricks that I’ve used to get the last bit of juice out of a slow PC. Whether you are using an old PC or the latest and greatest in hardware, you can still use some of these tips to make your PC run faster. Note that since I write two blogs, Help Desk Geek and Online Tech Tips, I have previously written about many performance tips already which I will link back to throughout. If I have not written about it, I’ve throw in a link to a relevant article from some of my other favorite sites. This list is in no particular order, just written in the order that I could think of them. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

How to Speed Up Mozilla Firefox If you’ve been using Firefox for a long time, you may have noticed it getting slower as time passed. Maybe it takes a few seconds to start up or takes a bit longer loading webpages. You might start noticing that it takes a second or so to switch between tabs or that the menu option doesn’t pop up instantly. If your installation of Firefox runs slow or freezes more than you’d care for, there are a lot of different ways to speed things up a bit. Note that some tweaks require changing the browser settings in about:config. Enable HTTP Cache There is a new HTTP cache option that can be enabled in Firefox, which will help reduce UI glitches and various other browser crashes. browser.cache.use_new_backend Double-click on it and change the value from 0 to 1. Refresh Firefox Firefox has a really cool feature that basically performs an automatic tune up on your Firefox installation. Click on the Refresh Firefox button at the top right to get started. Enable Safe Mode Minimize Memory Usage Clear Cache

How to hide files in JPEG pictures If you’re looking to hide files on your PC hard drive, you may have read about ways to encrypt folders or change the attributes on a file so that they cannot be accessed by prying eyes. However, a lot of times hiding files or folders in that way requires that you install some sort of software on your computer, which could then be spotted by someone else. I’ve actually written quite a few articles on how you can hide files and folders in Windows XP and Vista before, but here I’m going to show you a new way to hide files that is very counter-intuitive and therefore pretty safe! You can actually hide any type of file inside of an image file, including txt, exe, mp3, avi, or whatever else. Hide File in Picture In order to accomplish this task, you will need to have either WinZip or WinRAR installed on your computer. Create a folder on your hard drive, i.e. Now you should have a folder that looks something like this with files, a JPG image, and a compressed archive: Now here’s the fun part!

19 Tips Every Windows 7 User Needs to Know Your OS drives your whole PC experience, so it's your job as an enthusiast to keep it in a high state of tune Twist cap carefully. Only pour into Maximum PC-approved computer tanks. After installing a new OS, most people just jump right in and start driving it through all their favorite applications and games. Makes sense, right? The problem, however, is that most people, even a lot of self-described power users, never take the time to really tune the new OS, exploring its menus and setting up the interface for the fastest, most convenient operation based on personal preferences. It’s been about six months since Windows 7 hit the market, so we figure most of our readers have made their upgrades. We close out our tuning session with a tip designed to supercharge the process of installing the OS. It’s time to get started. Keyboard Shortcuts for Committed Mouse Abolitionists Alt + P Windows + Up and Windows + Down Windows + Shift + Up and Windows + Shift + Down Windows + + and Windows + -

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