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.