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How to Pin Computer to Taskbar in Windows 7. Windows 7 offers a feature called Pin to Taskbar that allows you to drag and drop or right click items and Pin them to the Windows 7 Taskbar. However, some items, particularly those that are already a part of another pinned item, cannot be pinned. For example, since Computer is a part of Windows Explorer, Computer will not Pin. To fix this, we simply need to create a new shortcut that can be pinned.

How to Pin Computer to the Windows 7 Taskbar:

1. Right Click on your Desktop and Select New >Shortcut
2. Type %windir%\explorer.exe shell:MyComputerFolder for location and then click Next
3. Type My Computer for shortcut name and click Finish
4. Next, from your Desktop, Right Click your new My Computer Shortcut and select Properties
   
5. Click Change Icon
6. Under Look for Icons in this file, type: %SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll and click OK
7. Next, Select an Icon to use for My Computer and click OK, then click OK again to exit
8. Next, simply drag and drop the My Computer shortcut you just created to the Windows 7  Taskbar to (Pin my Computer to the Taskbar)

That’s all there is to it. You can use the same procedure to Pin any Item to the Windows 7 Taskbar.

You can delete the shortcuts you create from the desktop once they have been pinned.

I recommend checking out the Windows 7 Shell Commands List if your looking to create other shortcuts to Pin to the Windows 7 Taskbar,

In the following simple solution, I’ll show you how to remove the Yahoo Toolbar from Firefox. The Yahoo Toolbar is often unknowingly installed with other software packages. There is nothing wrong with the Yahoo Toolbar, but if you don’t use the tools that are offered, you might consider it to be taking up precous space in your browser.

Uninstalling Yahoo Toolbar from Firefox:

1. Open your Firefox Browser and navigate to Tools > Addons
   
2. Locate Yahoo! Toolbar from the list of Add-ons, then click the Uninstall button to remove the Yahoo Toolbar
   
3. Restart Firefox and your Yahoo Toolbar should be gone!

In the following simple solution, I’ll show you how to open .docx files on a Mac, or on a PC that does not have Microsoft Office installed or has an older version of Office. .docx files are typically created by Microsoft Office Word. If you send a .docx file to someone who does not have Word on their computer, they might not have an application installed that can read the .docx file. It’s also fairly common for Apple Mac users to have issues viewing .docx file.

Open a .docx file with old version of Office

If your using an older version of Microsoft Office, you simply need to install a Microsoft Office compatibility pack. After installation, you should be able to read docx files using your existing Microsoft Office software

1. Download the Microsoft Compatibility Pack
2. Install the software
3. Now, simply navigate to your .docx file and click it to open

If all goes well, you should be able to read the .docx file with your current Microsoft Office software

Viewing a .docx file in Windows

Assuming that you are a Windows user and do not have Microsoft Office installed, there is a Word viewer application available that allows you to read .docx files. Here is the official link: Microsoft Word Viewer

1. Download the Word Viewer
2. Install the program (restart if prompted)
3. Now, simply navigate to your .docx file and click it to open

If all goes well, you should be able to read the .docx file with the the Word Viewer.

Viewing a .docx file on a Mac

If your trying to view that .docx file while working from a Mac, here is a simple solution.

1. Rename the .docx extension to .zip
2. Unzip the file
3. Open Safari and click File  > Open File
4. Navigate to the document.xml file in your extracted zip directory. For example:  filename/word/document.xml
5. Open

If all goes well, you should now be able to read the .docx file from Safari using your Mac.

Balloon tips are those little information pop ups you get when hovering the pointer over objects within Windows XP. These tips were originally designed to give the user additional information on the item in question. However as I am sure most of you would agree, they can very quickly become annoying. So, let me explain how to remove them.

How to Remove the Windows XP Balloon Tips:

1. Click Start -> Run and type regedit then click ok
2. From the registry editor directory tree, browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
   Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify
3. Find BalloonTip then right click it and select modify.  Enter a data value of 0 to disable the balloon tips
4. Exit the registry editor and restart your computer to have the changes take effect

If your looking to password protect a shared folder on your network, you’ve probably noticed that Windows XP doesn’t have any built in features allowing you to lock access to a folder via a password like previous Windows releases did. This means that anyone using the same workgroup or domain can access the files within your shared folder.

The good news is that there is a work around that seems to do the trick and simply involves creating a password for the guest account. Since shared folders are accessed on the network using the guest account, once the password for the guest account is set, a user in your workgroup or network domain must supply a valid username and password for the guest account to access the shared folder and contents within.

Password protecting a shared network folder:

1. Log into Windows XP as an Administrator
2. Click Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts, then click on Guest Account and make sure it is turned on
3. Now Click Start -> Run, type cmd in the entry box, and click Ok
4. At the command prompt, type Net user guest password and press Enter
5. Again, Click Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts, then click on Guest Account
   Notice that you can now set a password on the Guest Account. Set a Password and restart your Computer

Now, when a person tires to access your shared folder, they will be prompted for a username and password to continue. Use the username “Guest” and “password” you have set to access the password protected shared folders from your network.