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There are so many options for managing taskbar items, which may include customizing notification area icons, showing or hiding system icons on notification area of taskbar and locking and unlocking the taskbar. You can also add or remove different types of toolbars on taskbar and can hide automatically. Here I have described these different ideas for managing taskbar items along with their steps. How to Customize Notification Area Icons You can select which icons and notifications appear on notification area of the taskbar by customizing notification area icons setting. You can show icons and notifications, hide icons and notifications or only show notifications about the changes or notifications. If you choose to hide icons and notifications, you won't be notified about changes or updates. You can view the hidden icons at any time by clicking on the arrow next to the notification area on the taskbar. If you have selected the option only show notifications, you will only notified o...

In the previous post I have posted possible problems and their solutions while operating computer and its windows operating system. In this post I am going to write some ideas or tips to manage drives using drive tool in windows. Drive tools manages drives which helps to run them smoothly. You can optimize the drive to defrag them, run clean up to remove unnecessary files and format to remove all files from drives. Here I have explained in detail with steps to manage drives using drive tools. # How to Format Drives in Windows You can format the computer drives along with removable drives like pen drive, if it contents lots of unnecessary files or disk contains viruses or have any problems on computer disks or removable disks. Here are the steps to format your Drive Go to "My computer" and select the drive which you want to format Click on Format option located on manage tab Under format option dialog box choose the type of format you want to do Click on Start button to start ...

If you are beginner, even very small problems may disturb your learning process, so very miner things may help you a lot. Here I am going to write a post having 10 questions with possible problems and their solutions to answer the questions that computer beginner may asked. If you are just starting computing or you are not fully familiar with computer and its windows operating system, this post my helpful for you. Even if you are medium level user, some of the problems your may have faced. So you may also take benefits from this post. The beginners possible problems and their solutions while operating computer and its windows operating system are as follows. 1. How to Update Computer If you need to update your computer, go to control panel from desktop or start menu and click on windows update then you will see the following screen, after that click on check for update. It will start to update your computer. 2. How to Set Update Computer Automatically To set update your computer automa...

If you don't know your computers configurations like how much RAM is used, which operating system was installed, what's the name of computer, you can find them easily from DirectX Diagnostic Tool. By using this tool you can find not only these things but also know about the configuration of display adapter, sound and input devices. Here is a sort and very easier method to find out those information about computer configuration. How to Open DirectX Diagnostic Tool To open DirectX Diagnostic Tool, go to Run and type "dxdiag" then click on OK. The DirectX Diagnostic Tool dialog box will appear which gives information about the following. On the System Tab, you can find the following information. Machine name:         It includes the name of your computer. Operating System:   It includes the name of Operating system installed on your computer. Language:               ...

If your computer runs slowly during start-up or while running application programs or browsing websites, it is possible to make it run faster even using very simple methods. You can make your computer faster by applying very simple techniques or methods. Here I am going to describe those methods along with their steps to perform it.   Follow these methods and feel your computer is running faster then before.  # Delete Temporary Files If there are lots of temporary files are stored on computer, may slow down your computer. So it may be helpful to increase the speed of your computer, if it has been deleted. Here are the steps to delete temporary files from your computer.   At first, go to Run from start menu and type "%temp%" on it and click on OK. Then the following window will appear, delete them by selecting All. #Remove Unnecessary Programs From Startup  The application programs which are placed on startup runs while starting your computer,  which may slo...

When the computer is not being used for some duration of time i.e. 5, 10 or 15 min, the screen will automatically turned off to save the power used by the computer. It's happened due to what settings are saved on power option on control panel. From this option, you can choose power and display settings that you want on your computer. In this post I am describing "how to keep computer from sleeping" and the other methods to adjust power setting for computer. How to Change Sleep and Display Setting You can change sleep and display setting to make computer how long time it will display while it is not being used. Here below explained with steps to change its setting. At first, go to control panel and choose power options. On the power option window, you can see different power plans like balanced, power saver and high performance. Click on the option "Choose when to turn off the display" from the left side pane of this window. On the Edit plan setting window, you c...

Not only from Network printer, it is possible to print from other computers on LAN by sharing local printer connected on one computer on Local Area Network. To do this, you have to share the printer on LAN and have to install the shared printer on the computer from which you want to print. In this post I am describing the methods and steps for sharing printers on LAN. How to Share a Local Printer on LAN Here are some steps for sharing a local printer on Local Area Network.   At first, Go to the control panel and click on "view devices and printers" located under Hardware and Sound option. Under the printers category right click on printers name which you want to share and  choose on "printer properties" option.  Then printer properties dialog box will appear as given below, click on sharing Tab. Select on the "share this printer" option also give the name for the printer which is being shared as given on the picture below.  After completing all of the task...

You can share drives, folders and files of your PC to your Computer Network, after sharing these, you can access them from another computers in same computer network. It can be shared for specific computer or for everyone as your requirement. But you should be careful for security of your files, folders and drives while sharing them on the network. Today I am going to describe some methods for sharing drives, folders and files in computer network. How to Share Drive in Computer Network You can share your computer drive in computer network, using the following methods.   At first Go to "My Computer" from Desktop or Start Menu and Open it.  Right Click on the required drive which you want to share and Choose "Share width" and the "Advanced sharing.." As given below.  After that, drive properties window will appear, then click on "Advanced sharing" button. That displays advanced sharing dialog box then select on the "Share this folder" ch...