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How to Export and Import Email Accounts in Windows Live Mail This tutorial will show you how to export (backup) and import (restore) your email accounts in Windows Live Mail. Export or Backup Email Accounts in Windows Live Mail 1. Open Windows Live Mail. 2. Click on the Tools icon drop down arrow (or press Alt+F), select Export email, and click on Account. (see screenshot below) 3. Select the email account that you want to backup, then click on the Export button. (see screenshot below) 4. Navigate to where you want to save the .iaf file (exported account) at, type in a name if you do not like the default name, and click on Save. (see screenshot below) 5. Save the .iaf file to a safe location. This .iaf file is what is...

How to Fix Cannot Rename Library in Windows 7 and Windows 8 If you cannot rename a library in your user account by right clicking on the library folder and clicking on Rename, then this will show you how to fix this so that you will be able to rename it afterwards in Windows 7 and Windows 8. Fix Cannot Rename a Library using a BAT File 1. Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below. Delete_Libraries_Desktop.ini.bat http://www.sevenforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=146763&stc=1&d=1301631104 2. Save the .bat file to your desktop. 3. Double click/tap on the bat file to run it, and click/tap on Run if prompted. NOTE: You will notice that a command prompt window will quickly flash open and closed as the bat...

How to Send Automatic Vacation Reply Message for your Outlook Email Account This tutorial will help show you how to set up and send an automatic vacation reply message to the sender of received emails for your Hotmail or Outlook email account. Here's How: 1) Sign in online at www.outlook.com to your Hotmail or Outlook email account. 2) Click/tap on the gear icon at the top right, and click/tap on the More mail settings option. 3) Click/tap on the Sending automated vacation replies option under the Managing your account section. 4) Select (dot) Send vacation replies to people who email me, and enter the message you would like to send. NOTE: You can select the Don't send any vacation replies option when you no longer wish to have...

How to See Available Sleep States on Your System in Windows 7 This will show you how to get a report of the sleep states available on your system in Windows 7. The report will also attempt to provide a reason why sleep states are unavailable as well.System Sleeping States Only states S1, S2, S3, and S4 are the sleeping states. A system in one of these states is not performing any computational tasks and appears to be off. Unlike a system in the shutdown state (S5), however, a sleeping system retains memory state, either in the hardware or on disk. The operating system need not be rebooted to return the computer to the working state. Some devices can wake the system from a sleeping state when certain events occur, such as an...

Windows Does Not Start After Sleep There seem to be quite a few people with this problem, so I wrote this tutorial to quickly solve it. This is a problem with the Sleep mode that desktop computers use. Normally, Sleep is the only option, and Hibernate is not available to desktops. The problem appears to be caused by the Hybrid Sleep option (this simply sets the computer to sleep, but stores a hibernate file in case of a power loss). This tutorial will show you how to both enable Hibernate, as well as fix this problem. Lets get started! 1) Open up Power Options by either searching for it from the start menu, or through the Control Panel 2) Select whichever Power Plan you use, and select Change Plan Settings 3) Make sure that...

How to Enable or Disable Temporary IPv6 Address Feature in Windows 7 and 8 In this tutorial I will be showing you how to enable or disable the temporary IPv6 address that Windows generates when using the IPv6 address protocol. This will allow Windows to use the EUI-64 industry standard to automatically generate the interface ID part of the address rather than generating one randomly. What is IPv6? IPv6 is a protocol from the TCP/IP suite which allows network addressing of devices used for connecting to the internet and devices on your LAN (Local Area Network). At the moment the current network addressing protocol is IPv4 however the address space is being rapidly used up therefore over time IPv6 will replace it in order to allow more...

How to Set Time Limit for Active Remote Desktop Sessions This allows you to specify the maximum amount of time that a Remote Desktop Services session can be active before it is automatically disconnected. If a time limit is set, the user receives a warning two minutes before the Remote Desktop Services session disconnects, which allows the user to save open files and close programs. If you have a console session, active session time limits do not apply. You must be logged in as an administrator to be able to do this tutorial. While all editions of Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 can be a remote desktop client... Only the Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions can host a remote desktop connection. Only the Windows 7...

How to Require Users to Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to Approve UAC Elevation This will show you how to require users to have to press Control+ALT+Delete to approve or enter the administrator's password on the Secure Desktop screen for a UAC prompt to elevate a running application in Vista and Windows 7. If enabled, this helps to prevent a Trojan horse or other types of malicious code from stealing the user’s Windows credentials. You must be logged in as an administrator to be able to do this tutorial. EXAMPLE: Default UAC prompt EXAMPLE: Having to Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to Approve UAC Prompt Using a REG File Download1. To Require Pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL to Approve UAC PromptsA) Click on the Download button below to download the file...

How to Enable or Disable Managing Internet Explorer Add-ons This will allow you to enable or disable all or specific users to have the ability to enable or disable Toolbars and Extensions add-ons through the Internet Explorer Add-On Manager in Windows. You must be logged in as an administrator to be able to do the steps in this tutorial. EXAMPLE: Internet Explorer Add-On Manager Enabled and Disable Using a REG File Download NOTE: This option will affect all users. 1. To Enable Users to Manage Internet Explorer Add-ons for Only Current User NOTE: This is the default setting. A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below. Enable_Manage_Internet_Explorer_Add-ons.reg...

Batch Files - Start Multiple Programs at Once All of the work done in this tutorial will be done through MS DOS Batch Files. They are simply a method by which to enter multiple commands into a command prompt without manually typing them. Batch files are run through Command Prompt but can be accessed by shortcuts as well. Open a New Document in Notepad Open a New Document in Notepad and save it as filename.bat, choose a filename that is easy to remember. Command Echoing The first thing we're going to do is turn off command echoing. It isn't an integral part of this tutorial, but becomes annoying when running the batch file through command prompt. Enter this line in Notepad: @echo off Starting up the Programs This next set of...

How to Add or Remove "Services" from Control Panel in Windows This will show you how to add Services to the Control Panel for all users in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. EXAMPLE: "Services" added to Control Panel NOTE: This is the Control Panel icons and category view. EXAMPLE: Services Here's How: 1. To Remove "Services" from Control Panel NOTE: This is the default setting. A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below. Remove_Services_from_Control Panel.reg https://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/219819d1341473053-control-panel-add-remove-services-remove_services_from_control-panel.reg B) Go to step 3. 2. To Add "Services" to Control Panel A) Click/tap on the Download button below to...

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How to Enable or Disable Internet Explorer InPrivate Browsing InPrivate Browsing prevents Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9, and Internet Explorer 10 from storing data about a user's browsing session. This includes cookies, temporary Internet files, history, and other data. Toolbars and extensions are disabled by default. This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the ability to use the InPrivate Browsing feature in IE8, IE9, or IE10 for all or specific users on the computer. You must be logged in as an administrator to be able to do the steps in this tutorial. When disabled, the InPrivate Browsing option in Internet Explorer will be grayed out and not be able to open and turn on Inprivate Browsing. This...

How to Find the IP Address of Your Computer in Windows An IP address identifies a computer that is connected to the Internet or a network by a unique number. Currently this will usually be a Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) number that consists of four groups of numbers separated by periods, for example 192.200.44.69 (not a real one). This tutorial will show you how to find out what the IP address (Internet Protocol address) is for your computer in XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. To Find IP Address in Network Connections Details 1. Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click on the Network and Sharing Center icon. 2. In the left pane, click on the Change adapter settings link. (see screenshot below) 3. Right click...

How to Allow or Prevent Changing Window Color and Appearance in Vista and Windows 7 This will show you how to allow or prevent all users from changing the current Window Color and Appearance personalization settings in Vista and Windows 7. Changing the Window Color and Appearance settings is allowed for users by default in Windows. EXAMPLE: Window Color and Appearance Enabled and Disabled NOTE: When disabled (right screenshot), Window Color is grayed out and will not open when clicked on. EXAMPLE: Window Color and Appearance settings NOTE: When enabled, these are the settings available that you can change when the ungrayed out (blue) Window Color is clicked on above. Using a REG File Download 1. To Allow Changing Window...

How to Enable or Disable DOM Storage "Cookies" in Internet Explorer and Firefox DOM Storage is often compared to HTTP cookies. Like cookies, Web developers can store per-session or domain-specific data as name/value pairs on the client using DOM Storage. However, unlike cookies, DOM Storage makes it easier to control how information stored by one browser window is visible to another. DOM Storage is comprised of two primary parts In Session Storage, any data input is stored for the duration of the session. Thus, if a new tab is opened, the data from the Session in the original tab is stored for the new tab. Local Storage, spans multiple windows and persists beyond the current session. Local Storage allows Web applications to...

How to Pin Computer to the Windows 7 Taskbar This will show you how to pin Computer to the Windows 7 taskbar as a separate icon instead of it being pinned as a Jump list item in the default pinned Window Explorer taskbar icon. When you have both the default Windows Explorer icon to the left and this Computer icon to the right of it, then each time you click on the Computer icon on the taskbar it will open another separate new window of Computer. Clicking on the Windows Explorer icon will only open the one window instance. To avoid issues with other pinned "explorer" type shortcuts from displaying their opened windows in the thumbnail previews of whatever pinned "explorer" type shortcut is on the farthest left of the taskbar, be...

How to Add Windows 7 "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" to Windows Boot Manager Screen This will show you how to add Windows 7 Safe Mode with Command Prompt to the Windows Boot Manager to be able to easily select to startup into Safe Mode with Command Prompt, Windows 7, or any other installed OS at boot from the Windows Boot Manager screen. This can be handy to have as another option to be able to start Windows 7 in Safe Mode with Command Prompt as needed. You must be logged in as an administrator to be able to do the steps in this tutorial. EXAMPLE: "Windows 7 Safe Mode with Command Prompt" added to Windows Boot Manager Add Windows 7 "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" to Windows Boot Manager 1. Open a elevated command prompt or a...

How to Add "Extract All" to Context Menu of MSI Files in Windows Instead of having to install some 3rd party program to extract (unpack) the contents of a MSI file, this tutorial will show you how to add Extract All to the context menu of MSI files in all users or only your user account to be able to extract all of the contents of a MSI file into a new folder at the same location of the MSI file in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. EXAMPLE: "Extract All..." Added to the Context Menu of MSI Files Add or Remove "Extract All" to Context Menu of MSI Files in Only Your Account 1. To Add "Extract All" to Context Menu of MSI Files in Only your Account A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 3...

How to Add or Remove Windows Firewall Exception in Windows 7 and Windows 8 This will show you how to add or remove a program or feature for each type of network location type (ex: Private or Public) to allow the program or feature through Windows Firewall. When you add a program to the list of allowed programs in a firewall you allow a particular program to send information to or from your computer through the firewall. Allowing a program to communicate through a firewall (sometimes called unblocking) is like opening a tiny door in the firewall. Each time you allow a program to communicate through a firewall, your computer becomes a bit less secure. The more allowed programs your firewall has, the more opportunities there are for...