How to Install Sound Device Drivers in Windows 7

Having a sound problem in your new Windows 7 computer?

Recently, I successfully installed the 90-days Enterprise edition of Windows 7 in 1.8ghz Pentium 4 and 512mb memory computer. The setup took only more than an hour beating my expectation and there is only one device driver problem occur.

No sounds.

The updated version of winguggle to be released this month was used to backup all the system information in Windows XP and luckily, it saves the sound card problem of mine.

• Once you have the sound card information, search for the manufacturers device driver and save in any location that you want.
• Press Win+R > type Control sysdm.cpl to open the System Properties Windows

• Once the window opens, go to the hardware tab and open the Device Manager

 

You will noticed that in Other devices group there is an error on Multimedia Audio Controller or Sound Card Device Driver

• Right-Click > Update the driver

• You can try searching for the driver software or just use the driver that you have downloaded

That’s it! very simple… hopefully in the future, Microsoft now has its own huge library that compiles all the device drivers in any manufacturer.

Hope this Helps!

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Windows 7 Login Screen Wallpaper Changer Utility

This is one of the coolest feature and hacks in Windows 7 that let’s you customize the Logon background image at the Welcome Screen.  The new version of WinBubbles lets you change the wallpaper directly at the Welcome Screen without registry hacks and conversion tool to resize the wallpaper and make the file size less than 256kb.

The great thing is, you don’t need to browse and find the best  wallpaper inside your desktop. WinBubble will automatically convert those built-in free high-resolution backgrounds available and let’s you change them quickly and easily.

The automatic conversion code was tested from 3400-4300 jpeg images in different file sizes. You don’t need to worry about the file size anymore. It was designed for quick and instant conversion tool.

For Geeks, read here on how to change the background manually.

Just launch the application and go to Windows 7 Tab and choose which background do you want to use and click View to see the results.

To launch the application while on the Welcome screen, Click the “Ease of Access Center” option to activate the unique feature. You can press Win+L to test the feature and after that you can launch the application by clicking the lower-left side of the screen.

  

Enjoy using WinBubbles!

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How to Burn ISO Files or Disc Images in Windows 7

Many programs and installation disc now are compiled in .iso format. Making a copy or burning them in Windows 7 is very easy. A built-in Right-Click Menu will launch the Windows Disc Image Burner to burn .iso files directly within Windows without the need of third party tool.

ISO File is a disk image or copy of data of a DVD/CD-ROM.

To verify the disc after burning, click to check the option as shown in the picture above.

It is supported natively in Windows 7 free of charge.

That’s it! Hope this helps!

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Gmail Account Hack! Detecting if opened in another location

Google launch a new feature that detects suspicious activity in your gmail account for free!

It will detect and inform the user for suspicious login in your account. Usually this type of security measures are not given for free and designed for enterprise-level email security only.

If it looks like something unusual is going on with your account, the system also alert you by posting a warning message.

"Warning: We believe your account was last accessed from…" along with geographic region.

Very Cool feature!

By clicking Show details and preferences you’ll see the last account activity and other complete details.

Wow! This is a nice to have security feature that I’ve seen for a very long time.

Here’s my trick using Yahoo mail!

Thanks!

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How to setup strong Passwords to User Account in your Windows 7 Computer

Passwords provide the first line of defense against unauthorized access to your PC. It can be made up of combination of letters, numbers and especial symbols to log on and access programs, files and documents.

Making sure that you have strong passwords for all accounts on your computer are very important.

Open the Command Prompt as administrator

Once the command prompt is open, type net user to view the list of users in the system.

The great thing is, there is a built-in command in windows that provides a strong random password to user account that you can write down.

How to assign random password to user account in Windows

Just use the command net user [username] /random as shown in the picture above.

Using Wintinker Password Generator to provide strong, easily-to-remember and hard-to-guess password in any user account.

Lower Case
facebook 
f@c3800k

Upper Case
regdevelop
r3gd3v3l0p

Alternating Case
yesterday
Y3$73rD@y

command: net use [username] password

e.g. net use ilao f@c3800k

Hope this helps!

Recommended to Read more:

Tips for creating strong passwords on Windows 7 (and Vista)

Hidden Backdoor in Windows 7/Vista Welcome Screen (just incase you forget your password and you want to recover your account)

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How to get and play mp4 Youtube videos in Windows 7

After the new revision of youtube, there are lots of users asking why and how to save these youtube clips for offline viewing and putting them to your music players like ipod and ipod touch.

Some of the famous youtube downloader sites like keepvid and savevid went down for few days because of the changes occur at youtube.

For the Changes

• probably, the users themselves are now directly responsible for archiving of these youtube videos because of the new system

• There is now a clear separation or Youtube.com is now totally not responsible because the youtube links are being generated by the user each time it loads.

Disclaimer Notice
Again, This guide was created for educational purpose only and the author is not responsible for any illegal purposes. If you decide to save any video, use it at your own risk. Do not sell, share the downloaded videos, and create any illegal use of the guide.

Easily Save as MP4 for offline viewing

• For what I’ve learnt, converting or accessing the MP4 format is still possible. Just add &fmt=18 at the end of the url. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlkBIPe3-f4&fmt=18
• Drag this bookmark in Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Right-Click this link > Add to Favorites for Internet Explorer:

Get Youtube Links

• You can now get the MP4 format by clicking the bookmarks or favorite while watching any videos.

One of the best feature in Windows 7 Media Player is the support for playback capabilities of several known formats such as MOV, MP4, 3GP, M4A, DivX and many more, without installing any codecs.

and if you want to play them before you login to Windows. Check out WinBubble, the new version supports the launching the app in the Welcome Screen.

Hope this helps!

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