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Importing Pictures from a Camera or Mobile Device into Windows 7

Mon, 03/22/2010 - 12:15 — Jack Busch

Windows 7 makes keeping track of your pictures incredibly easy, thanks to the Libraries feature. If you haven't already, check out our tutorial on Libraries - A Great Feature of Windows 7 to learn how to add pictures on your hard drive to your Library. But if you want to add pictures from a digital camera or mobile device to your Windows 7 Pictures Library, you'll have to import them. Luckily, this is incredibly easy to do and we're going to show you how.

Install a Network Printer from Windows XP Using the Add Printer Wizard

Fri, 03/19/2010 - 11:21 — Ciprian

Recently I've shown How to Share a Printer with Your Network and how to install a network printer from Windows XP using the driver setup. However, there are printer drivers which do not have an installation wizard and a setup.exe file which does the work for you. If you find yourself in such a situation, you need to use the 'Add a printer' wizard. To learn how to do this, click on read more.

Install a Network Printer from Windows XP Using the Driver Setup

Wed, 03/17/2010 - 11:33 — Ciprian

In one of our previous tutorials, we've showed How to Share a Printer with Your Network from Windows 7. Since then, many of you told us you have home networks with computers using Windows XP and cannot install & use the printer from those PCs. In order to help, we will show you how to install a printer connected to a Windows 7 computer from a Windows XP PC, using the driver installation setup of the printer.

How to Change the Default Playback & Recording Audio Device

Sat, 02/27/2010 - 23:13 — Florin

Sound is a very important part of our computing experience. We listen to music, do voice chat, watch movies, play games, record sound, etc. In this article I will talk about two important topics related to sound in Windows 7: how to change the default playback audio & recording devices which are used by your installed applications. I will be sharing some interesting & useful tips about this, including how to troubleshoot certain problems.

How to Disable System Beep in Windows 7

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 22:03 — Florina

As most of you have noticed, when you press the wrong key, when an error dialog pops up or when you use volume control, you hear a beep. After doing this a couple of times, that beep can get quite annoying. Therefore, in this tutorial, I will show you how to disable it in Windows 7, to make sure it remains silent and it doesn't bother you anymore. As you will see, there are two ways you can do this, both methods being relatively simple.

How to Disable or Enable Windows 7's Startup Sound

Fri, 02/19/2010 - 22:10 — Florina

Even though I initially liked Windows 7's startup sound, after a few weeks of using it, it became annoying. Like many things in life, something your hear or do often becomes boring and then annoying. I'm pretty sure that, just like me, many of our readers will want to disable it as some point. Therefore, in this tutorial, i'll show how to do just that: how to disable Windows 7's startup sound. And, for when you want to have it back, I'll show also how to enable it back again.

How to Share a Printer with Your Network

Thu, 02/04/2010 - 21:35 — Ciprian

In this article, I will continue our series on Windows 7 networking with a tutorial on how to share a printer with other computers from your network. If all the other computers are using Windows 7, the procedure is extremely simple and everything works instantly. If you have computers with other operating systems, then you might want to read the end part of the article too.

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