How To Automate & Schedule Regular Windows 7 Backups

Far too many PC users fail to properly back up their systems and their data. Because of that, I’ve often found myself in the position of having to tell family and friends that all of the family photos and financial information they’ve stored on their computer is completely lost. There are so many free and inexpensive ways to set up regular backups, that there is really no excuse to lose all of those precious memories and important files.

Tina recently described a step-by-step approach to setting up the Windows 7 backup and restore feature that’s built right into the operating system. It really doesn’t get much easier than that. Justin also provided 10 free products that can help with manually taking regular backups. In this article, I’m going to offer three other free products that you can use to configure regularly scheduled, automated Windows 7 backups.

Creating a user locked folder in Windows 7

Whether it is possible to create a folder that will contain user’s personal documents that can only be opened by the user and all other users of the Windows 7 on the same PC can not access it anyway?
Yes it is possible.
I will show you, how to create a folder with a lock sign on it, that can only be accessed the original user or author, no other user can access it, even it is not in My Documents folder.
For example, I have created a folder named The Customize Windows in E partition of my Windows 7 PC:
By right-clicking on the folder, select Properties and open the Security tab :
Now, click the Users other than you; click Edit:
Select the user group/user and fill the check box how much you will give access to the user.
You can allow only to read, not to copy or even not to access/open the folder. After restart or simply restarting the explorer.exe, when an unauthorized user wants to open the folder, he/she will get this:
In the above example, I have made all users to be denied by the System to access the folder.

Google Wallet Assimilates Google Checkout. Resistance Is Futile

Google Wallet Assimilates Google Checkout

When Google Wallet was announced, and the interest in wireless payments cooled, there was an obvious question. Where did all of this leave Google Checkout? Now, we know exactly where – in the stomach of Google Wallet, which has now swallowed its sibling service whole. According to information released by Google, the Checkout service will be merged into Wallet, and no longer exist as an independent entity.
Don’t worry. This doesn’t mean that all of the online checkout features have been given the axe. It only means that those features will now be referred to under the Google Wallet name.  Going to the old site will re-direct you to the new version but the functionality remains the same.

The Week in Tweets: Adobe Pulls the Plug on Flash

Adobe Pulls the Plug on Flash

With rumors swirling, Adobe officially pulled the plug on Flash for the mobile Web Tuesday. In the real world, that left Flash developers struggling to figure out what to do next while Adobe partner Research in Motion scrambled to reassure its ecosystem that the Flash show would go on because, you know, there’s at least a couple of hundred BlackBerry PlayBook owners out there who were getting nervous.

In the Twitterverse, where all things are possible, Steve Jobs was reported to be chortling from beyond the grave—an image that is probably better left unrealized, even on HTML5.

“Hug a Flash developer today,” tweeted Anthony de Rosa, when the hammer came down. We scoured Twitter for tweets about the demise of Flash, and to be honest, that may have been the only non-example of schadenfreude that we found.

The Week in Tweets: Jobs Bio Tackles Reality Distortion, Meltdowns

Steve Jobs Bio Tackles Reality Distortion!

The long-awaited Steve Jobs biography hit stores on Monday, and tech journalists, analysts, and fans alike quickly tore it apart looking for sound bites, quirky anecdotes, and classic Jobs meltdowns.

The nearly 600-page book chronicles Jobs’s life from early childhood, charting the rise of Apple, his subsequent ousting, and triumphant return, mixed in with a few personal stories and interviews with friends and enemies. Author Walter Isaacson sat down for at least 40 interviews with Jobs, where the Apple co-founder often discussed his life and philosophies during long walks in his unassuming Palo Alto neighborhood.

How to Buy an HDTV

Undoubtedly, the biggest trend in HDTVs this year is 3D TV. But the truth is, not everyone wants to spring for a 3D-ready HDTV and the accessories required to bring 3D to your living room. If you're not sure, Buy a 3D TV Now or Wait? can help you decide, and if you're dead-set on getting a 3D set, here's a list of the best 3D TVs we've tested. Whether 2D or 3D, selecting the right HDTV isn't easy: what type of set should you get? How big should it be? How about resolution and other specs? What sort of extras do you need? Understanding the basics will help you make your choice (and your video) crystal clear, so here's what you should consider when shopping for an HDTV.

The 10 Best Desktops

The Top 10 Best Desktops

Desktops have come a long way from the boring, beige boxes of old. Now, you can get something as sleek as an all-in-one desktop or as flashy as a boutique gaming box and even a compact (and cheap!) net top. The price for desktops these days start as low as $250 and as high as, well, $5,000 and maybe more, but a powerful desktop can be had for about $800. The editors of PCMag.com test hundreds of systems each year to help you find the best desktop. In this story, we help you narrow your choices by collecting the top 10 desktops on the market today.

Apple iPhone 5 Could See October Release!

Apple could release the iPhone 5 in October, according to latest rumors. But questions remain about actual features.

Apple’s next iPhone could see its debut in September—or maybe October. It will likely come with Apple’s proprietary A5 processor and an 8-megapixel camera, but it’s more questionable whether the case will undergo a fundamental redesign. As for the device’s official name, you could probably place money just as easily on “iPhone 4S” as “iPhone 5”—or both, if Apple chooses to launch a whole new line of cheaper iPhones to complement its annual high-end device.

The ramp-up to the launch of each new Apple product sometimes plays out like the tech-world version of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” in which confusion reigns.

The 50 Best iPhone Applications

Whether you're joining the roster of iPhone owners for the first time, perhaps when the iPhone 5 launches or you're a long-time Apple customer trying to make the most out of your iPhone 3 or 4, you need app recommendations. The app store is just too big to go through on your own. Word-of-mouth advice is useful, but we at PCMag spend thousands of hours each year scouring iTunes, speaking with developers, reviewing the best apps we find, and hunting for hidden gems. If there's an app that makes owning the iPhone more worthwhile, we find out about it.

Why? Because apps are what transform the iPhone from mobile phone to pocket PC. Anyone can find an app for just about anything, but plenty of them aren't worth your time. Others are good—entertaining, usually, at the very least—and still others seem useful for only a day or two, until their novelty wears off. And some make you wonder how you ever functioned without them.

No Apple iPhone 5 ‘Baby’ IPhone Until 2012, Wall Street Says

Apple iPhone 5

Apple won't be launching a fifth-generation iPhone or the "baby" iPhone it's supposedly developing for emerging markets until 2012, according to the latest buzz on Wall Street.

Barron's reports that Keith Bachman of BMO Capital Markets told his clients "We believe the iPhone 5 will launch in mid-2012" leading others to believe that only a slightly upgraded iPhone 4, dubbed by the press as the "iPhone 4S" will launch this fall instead.

Contradicting a mountain of rumors pointing at an August or September 2011 launch date for the "iPhone 5," Bachman's note complements the sentiments of Mike Abramsky at RBC.

In a note to clients that was obtained by Business Insider, Abramsky said he "thinks" Apple will reduce the price of existing iPhones to convert more users instead. He thinks Apple will make a carrier-subsidized iPhone 3GS free, sell the iPhone 4 for $99, and if it launches, price the iPhone 5 at its usual entry point of $199/$299.

A Little Brother for iPhone 5: Why Apple Might Do It

A Little Brother for iPhone 5

Rumors about the next iPhone have been circulating ever since the last one came out. There have been a lot, but besides the many supposed features it'll have, there's been some debate about whether it will be called iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S. Now the word on the street is that both are correct—that Apple will actually release two new iPhones in the fall, one being a completely redesigned model that will remain the flagship phone, and the other a cheaper, lower-end model that would be more like a cousin of the current iPhone 4.

The rumor is actually not much more than educated speculation from an industry analyst, Chris Whitmore of Deutsche Bank. That alone is enough to put the plan in the "questionable" bin. On top of that, though, such a move just seems out of character for Apple. Since its inception, the iPhone has always been "The iPhone." Apple's mobile product philosophy is pretty clearly a "one size fits all" strategy, releasing just one phone per year. Much like the tagline for the Highlander movies, for the iPhone, there can be only one.

The World Top 10 Best Laptops | Top Gadgets Review

The World Top 10 Best Laptops!

Shopping for a laptop these days is a pretty daunting task. The sheer number of laptops available online or in a store's electronics section is enough to make your mind spin. Most people have a general idea of what their laptop should look like and what they want in terms of features, but are often intimidated by the choices available. That's where we come in.

The editors of PCMag.com test hundreds of systems each year to help you find the best laptop. There are a lot of laptops out there, from the large-screen desktop replacements to the lightweight ultra portables, and even notebooks, but all share common features. In this story, we help you narrow your choices by collecting the top 10 laptops on the market today.

Top Google PR Blunders!

Google celebrated its 13th birthday today, and in that time, it has had a number of product hits and misses. As with any big company, it has also had to contend with a number of PR snafus, from unauthorized data collection to antitrust investigations.

Most recently, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt was on Capitol Hill defending his company’s search tactics. Google does not favor its own products in search results or “cook” its results to give it the upper hand, Schmidt told the Senate Judiciary Committee.

About the Amazon Tablet 12 Questions?

If Las Vegas has odds on Amazon releasing a tablet device, you should not bet against it happening. That’s how pervasive and frankly convincing the onslaught of rumors about this as-yet unofficial tablet’s imminent release has been.

So let’s add some more, ahem, Kindle-ing to the fire.

Here’s what we know about Amazon’s tablet—people should “stay tuned” to see if there’s any truth to the rumors of the device, according to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

That’s it. That’s the entirety of the official word from Amazon on a tablet aside from “no comment,” and Bezos made that cryptic statement way back in May.

You Need to Know About the New Facebook

It's been a big week for Facebook. After revamping some of the site's core features, the company hosted its developer conference in San Francisco yesterday and dropped some more bombshells. The whole experience on the site is about to change.

Facebook's new features mark a change in strategy. Last year Facebook set out to expand its reach by making some of its most popular features—mainly the Like button and commenting—ubiquitous on the Web. By spreading its Likes and comments to thousands of sites, Facebook further intertwined itself with the rest of our online existence, and its membership ballooned to a monolithic 800 million users.

Installing Windows 8 on the Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet

Now that Windows 8 Developer's Preview, the first official build of Microsoft's forthcoming operating system, is finding its way into many PCs (Microsoft released it to the public for download), it's only natural that we install a fresh copy into various laptops here at. We already tried it on an Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (Thunderbolt) running BootCamp, but what the Air lacked was a touchscreen that could take advantage of Windows 8's touch-centric features, particularly its Metro UI. That's why the Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet was a logical choice, since it has a rotating touchscreen that exposes a full size keyboard. It's an Editors' Choice and recipient of our first Windows 8 convertible tablet hand-on.

Nature Walls & Natural Desktop

Many who fuck the exterior and the wilderness overtimes dream throughout each day of beingness in their lover places in nature. Although most of us moldiness line stentorian case jobs and cannot pay as such minute as we would similar in nature, we can environ ourselves with scenes, images and pictures of our most beloved memories.

There are numerous construction we can fastness our suffering for nature existent. But some nature lovers may not realize that individual nature websites supply unrestricted nature wallpapers and backgrounds for visitors to photograph, apportion, spend and pass in diverse methods. So we poverty to supply you several ideas how that you may use nature cover images.

Browser Wars

When it comes to choosing a Web browser today, you're spoiled for choice. Major new releases Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 have brought these two big name browsers to near parity with upstart Google Chrome and longtime innovator Opera. The current crop of surfing software all include plenty of speed, minimized interfaces for a better look at that site you're browsing, and support for the emerging HTML5 standard markup language. (Top Gadgets Review)

Gateway ID47H02u (Top Gadgets Review)

What makes the Gateway stand out from its mainstream laptop counterparts is that it fits a 14-inch widescreen into a 13-inch frame. The result is a compact frame with a whole lot of screen real estate. It's graced with style, using a fine metal throughout the exterior and interior. It's also the least expensive among its brethren, yet it runs a powerful Core i5 processor and pulled off over 8 hours of battery life. It's a solid buy no matter how you break it down.

Report| Apple Suppliers Ramping Up Production For iPhone5 Launch

It's very likely that the iPhone5 will be announced soon, and in preparation for the launch, manufacturers have kicked production of Apple's fifth-gen smart phone.

According to a Digitizes report, Apple manufacturer Fox Conn is producing 150,000 iPhone5s every day as the launch date presumably nears. Digitizes also said the makers of the iPhone's lens, touch panel, reinforced glass, and battery are "operating at full swing."

It estimates that Apple will ship as many as six million iPhone5s in September alone, and that shipments in the fourth quarter will soar past 22 million. As this happens, suppliers will wind down production of the iPhone4 and CDMA versions of the iPhone, Digitizes also said.

How to Turn Web Apps into Desktop Apps

Web apps are more than just interesting little online tools you can play with and forget.    Serious work now takes place exclusively in rich Internet-based applications that mimic, and maybe even replace, the Desktop Computer apps we've been using for decades.
Web apps are beholden to your Web browser: In other words, if the browser crashes, say good bye to your session of work and perhaps some important data. One of the ways around that, besides picking a relatively crash-proof browser (we recommend Google Chrome), is to use a "site-specific browser" to give your Web app some Desktop permanence. You will still need that all-important Internet connection, but running a Web app as if it were a discrete desktop app means more stability and accessibility.

virtual desktop interface

Desktop virtualization is a walk by which one or author computers run as accession points to a midway machine that handles all the assemblage and applications. This ordinary use has umpteen advantages in organized environments and can potentially forbid both experience and money in the rightist surroundings. desktop interface

In a normative Network representation, a mortal gift interact with a machine that runs its own operative group, applications and processes, and transfers data back and onward to other computers either flat or via a server that stores system accumulation. In a virtualized leader, sometimes titled virtual desktop port the bifocal machine does not only obtain the information, it also runs the programs and processes the applications. The terminals used by the users are shells displaying the workings of that water computer. desktop interface

Desktop and Server Management Operations!

This could resultant in a limit of grouping complexities, thereby threatening alive accumulation, all of which are relevant to an system. Hence today, servers, computer and desktops are essentially allowing companies to outlet message, share files and cook depreciative accumulation by installment firewalls and related assemblage protection software. But are these systems sure and is the store apt in the several companies? Are they deed all the inputs and essentials within the confines of their organization? (Desktop)

As a outcome, there is a maturation condition for a stringent gear company performance which provides solutions to mitigate and preclude any information, server or associated issues, thereby making system fruitfulness one of their sacrosanct objectives in their listing. The advantages of utilizing an outside vendor's store pair offerings are aggregate because they are serving companies to effectively manage their intramural dealings by selecting their preferential (or desirable services) from a school wide resource lake. Too, best group functionality is the election requirement of companies before any unalterable production can be gained. | Top Gadgets Review

(Top Gadgets Review) Computers Desktop CPUs!

Computers Desktop CPUs

A CPUs or median processing unit is the primary effort of a computer screen. There are some components in a computer desktop like the motherboard, bad propulsion, processor, and remaining intrinsical parts that act up a useable computer. The fan is a real important for a machine desktop because it keeps the computer unagitated time it is employed.

If the fan is not employed then the machine leave automatically shut consume because it is overheating. Using a machine without a fan can permanently alteration the components and shortly it will not locomote on at all. Most grouping who use computers are not computer technicians. Umteen people like myself use the computers for enterprise, training, and entertainment. When something goes misconduct with the computer, group either publicize it to a computer technician, or in extremum cases, toss the ongoing computer that is not employed and buy a new one. Either way, fixing the difficulty is pricy.

Trouble gunfire A [Computer or Laptop Difficulty]

 

Computer or Laptop Difficulty

Unlike today's cars, our computers don't get an whole on game board system that identifies problems within our organization. This means we poorness to manually troubleshoot every air that pops up. Because of the numerous differences between component, software and operating systems, the operation of identifying a machine supplying can be hard. To simplify this duty, machine loco mote expert’s eff formed flowcharts that attempt to name problems with the machine or laptop by process of excreting. These methods can speedily and accurately spot a job with your machine. (Top Gadgets Review)

Toshiba Satellite P740-BT4G22 – [Top Gadgets Review]

Toshiba Satellite (Top Gadgets Review)

A 14-inch notebook sporting a 2.3GHz Intel Nucleus i5 2410M processor, the Toshiba Satellite P740-BT4G22 packs Nvidia graphics with Optimus profession and an LED-backlit, 1,366 by 768 partitioning pass among another features. The Toshiba laptop comes with an interconnected 1.3 megapixel webcam, Bluetooth funding and much. (Top Gadgets Review)

Designing and Features of this stylish engineering gadget,

Toshiba went with a soft metal windup around the intact laptop from its lid to its present, which holds an LED-backlit, tile keyboard and multitouch trackpad. Above the keyboard rests two harmon/kardon speakers, and its 1.3 megapixel webcam sits fitting above its TruBrite LED. The Satellite P740-BT4G22 packs a raise sheet DVD SuperMulti optical actuation in its near sidelong. Connections countenance one accepted USB opening, one USB 3.0 port, HDMI production, a 10/100 LAN Ethernet port, frequence jacks and solon.

This Toshiba Follower helper would break 6GB of DDR3 store at 1,333MHz and a 640GB rigorous cross spouting at 5,400 rpm finished a SATA form, if rough unsealed. Users would also feat a 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 525M with Optimus change profession. The video roster supports 3D video content finished 3D Modality and PhysX physics for use in games. Finished USB 3.0, the Satellite P740-BT4G22 can lodge USB devices and wittiness punishment finished MP3 playersin Dolby Front Frequency while it's unerect. (Top Gadgets Review)