Do you think no one can see your computer folders and files over network when its not shared? That is not the case. Any user with administrative access on your local computer or Domain ( if its connected) can access your whole C, D or other partitions without your knowledge and normal sharing. All partitions are shared for administrators in Windows Operating Systems which is called ‘ Administrative Shares’.  This post shows how to disable administrative shares in Windows 7 computer to keep your data secret.  Read more...

While I’m preparing a different post related to this topic, I noticed administrative shares not working in my Windows 7 workgroup computer. If the computer becomes part of domain, it started working for domain administrator, but in workgroup, no luck. After several tries and searches, this way helped me fix the issue.  Read more...

It’s always better to backup your data before do any re-installation or repair when Windows 7 crashed or can not be booted. How to do it when you can’t log in and see the explorer?. This small post shows how to use Puppy Linux bootable CD  to recover Windows 7 files.

I like Puppy Linux for this purpose, because;

1) Very Small file (130 MB only) compare to other Operating Systems.
2) Installation is not required, boot from CD or DVD and do your job.
3) Very quick booting.
4) Detects FAT32, NTFS partitions and external USB devices. So, transfer your data in easy way to removable disks.  Read more...

Windows 7 comes with better backup and Restore options. You can easily select your personal documents for backup on different partitions, hard drives, external drives or Network locations.

Backup and Restore can be accessed in Windows 7 in control panel, or Maintenance in All Programs through start button.

If this is the first time you are running backup and restore in windows 7, you will get a fresh screen in Backup and Restore home page. To backup your personal documents in Windows 7 first time, select ‘Set up Backup’

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I’m posting this as a answer for a question asked by Sysprobs reader. How to configure and setting up NFS share on Windows 7 and connect it to VMware ESX server as storage. Network File System (NFS) developed by Sun Microsystems to use in UNIX based systems.

To setup NFS share on earlier Microsoft Operating systems, you need a component called ‘Windows Services for UNIX (WSFU)’ which can be downloaded from Microsoft. But WSFU is not for Windows 7. So, creating NFS share on Windows 7 and allowing other UNIX based Operating Systems to access the share is not straight forward without third party utilities.  Read more...

When multiple Operating Systems installed with Windows 7 then editing boot loader is not easy as Windows XP.  This small post shows how to use free GUI Boot loader editor for Windows 7 to easily manage and edit boot options.

In windows 7 Boot loader  called ‘ Boot Configuration Data (BCD)’ and its having complete command line utility. Though command line utility works well, but GUI is easy to work.  In earlier Operating Systems editing boot loader options, such as changing boot order, timeout, display name, disks and partitions numbers can be done easily by going to Startup and Recovery settings under advanced system properties, then open like text editor. But Windows 7 is not having same option.  Read more...

By any chance if you need to convert Mac dmg to iso in windows environment, then below method will be helpful. DMG is an image format used in Mac OS X. Windows OS and its most of the software do not support dmg. Once it is converted to iso then you can write it on CD or DVD in Windows.

We will use a small program called ‘dmg2iso’ for this conversion. There are several methods available on internet but unfortunately non of them worked for me. dmg2iso did the job quickly and correctly. So I decided to share it here.

If you are looking to browse Recent documents in Windows 7 explorer, then it will not be available where you found in Windows XP. It’s in different location like Vista. Find out the Windows 7 recent documents location with this small guide.

This is helpful to  access  Windows 7 drives over the network to find out recently opened documents and visited places in explorer.

Recent documents for Windows 7 is located under here,

Look at above location when you browse other users’ data over network or as separate disk.