If your system drive is running out of space due to downloaded data and other important files, then you must extend it. Formatting is not a good solution for extending your disk partition since you will have to create backup of important data and then restore it. This article will clearly show how you can extend a partition or volume without formatting in Windows 7 and Windows 8. For this purpose, you will have to use IM-magic Partition Resizer.
"File Does Not Have a Program Associated with it.." Windows 7 and Windows 8 Error [Solved]
Windows users are keen to install third party software to explore new features. Sometimes, they are unable to run applications and face an error that the files don’t have program associated with them.
You can use internet on Wi-Fi enabled devices by your Wi-Fi supporting laptop. Let's say you want to share your only one internet connection across all your desktop and laptops computers, Wi-Fi supporting mobile phones, gaming consoles like PS3 and any other wireless devices that you have at home.
If your PC is connected to the internet and it is running Windows 7 and supports built-in Wi-Fi, you can set up an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network and then connect the other wireless devices with this ad-hoc network (also called a computer-to-computer network).
Microsoft had already announced that it will not be selling Windows XP to OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) after October 22, 2010 which is around 4 months away. Since Windows XP now only comes pre-installed on Netbooks, this means that there will no longer be Windows XP based netbooks in the market after October.
With HP Slate almost gone, ExoPC’s Windows 7 powered tablet will be the first Windows 7 powered tablet. ExoPC’s founder has announced that Windows 7 tablet will be launching in US, Canada and France on September 7, three months from now.
A company in Hong Kong has made an iPhone looking tablet PC running on Windows 7 while the rest of the geek world is still busy running Android on iPhone 2G. They are calling it the “iPhone Tablet”. This enlarged iPhone tablet was displayed at the annual HKEF (SE) 2010.
Microsoft has finally put the complete Touch Pack for Windows 7 touch PCs up for download. Up until now, the pack was only available for OEMs but due to what Microsoft said in the official blog post, the demand of the users that now they have made the complete pack publicly downloadable by anyone.
How about a little change? Since Windows Phone 7 is not available on any real phone at the moment (except for a video showing HTC HD2 running Windows Phone 7 OS) how about transforming your Desktop (Windows XP, Vista, 7 supported) into Windows Phone 7 UI (User Interface)?
Amid huge interest built up around Windows 7, Microsoft has decided to extend Windows 7 Enterprise trial version’s expiry till the end of this year, which was previously 90 days from the time you first started using it.
The Aero effects in Windows 7 are really cool to start with but sometimes you can do not want so many thumbnails of your open tabs in Firefox to pop up every time you hover cursor over the Firefox tab in the taskbar. Or conversely, you may want the thumbnails to show up. Either way, here’s the simplest way to enable or disable thumbnail preview of your open tabs of Firefox in your Windows 7 taskbar.
Microsoft has been late in adopting the smart phone market with it’s own version comparable to Apple’s iPhone or Google’s Nexus One. But now with Mobile World Congress (MWC) starting from 15th February 2010, it is almost inevitable for Microsoft to release it’s long awaited Windows 7 Phone. Even though no one is sure about the precise name Microsoft will give to it’s smart phone but the specs have been leaked in the wild.
This year in Las Vegas, International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is coming up with interesting new stuff. CES 2010 is happening now (January 7 to January 10) and on the first day there are some very interesting announcements that I would like to highlight.
When you open a file, Windows will check the file extension and would invoke the application which is set as default for that extension, but sometimes it happens when you download email attachments or download something through torrents file extensions are messed up. Like many video files are in extension .DAT which no video player recognizes, for that you have to change the file extension.
Rafael of Within Windows has made this beautiful Windows 7 collage with his unedited photos of New York launch event. Click the image to know more.
Have you ever get bored with a static desktop background which stays the same every time you log in to you computer? DreamScene a utility which allows videos to be used as desktop background, it is one of the Ultimate Extras which can be downloaded from Windows Update in Windows Vista Ultimate.
DreamScene was removed from Windows 7 in favor of Windows SlideShow, but a little hack can make non-Vista-Ultimate versions such as Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Enterprise edition and editions of Windows 7 to use DreamScene too.