Posts Tagged ‘Windows 7’

Automatically Backup Your Data to SkyDrive in Windows 7 with Gladinet

windows-7-Last week we showed you how to automatically backup your data to SkyDrive in Ubuntu. This tutorial is the Windows version of what you saw last week. If you remember, we told you that Microsoft offers a free 25GB of online storage that you can use to store your data anyway you want. With that free space, this brief tutorial will show you how to setup an automatic backup and restore process in Windows 7 so that when you lose your data on your computer, you can then go to SkyDrive and restore that data onto another computer.

This is like your own Carbonite online store, only free.

 

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Turn Off Startup Sound in Windows 7

This brief tutorial shows you how to turn off or disable Windows Startup sound in Microsoft Windows 7 machines.

Even though most of our tutorials are based on Ubuntu, we’ll try to write some tutorials that are based on Windows at times. So, if you want to get rid of Windows annoying startup sounds, continue below.

 

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First 30 Days with Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)–Day Five

This is day 5 of our 30 days series on Ubuntu 11.10 called ‘First 30 Days with Ubuntu 11.10”. We started this series with installing and updating Ubuntu, showed you multiple ways to install programs in Ubuntu and how to add network printers. Today we’ll continue from where we left off and show you how to share files, printers and folders with other systems on your network (LAN). You probably already have other systems like Windows that you may want to access from Ubuntu. However, to be able to access and share files and other resources with all systems, you’ll have to enable file sharing, and this tutorial will show you how.

 

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Share Files Between Windows and Ubuntu Systems via Ubuntu One

Ubuntu One Client is not just for Ubuntu computers anymore. Now you can use it in Windows and well. And if you don’t know what Ubuntu One is, it is an online storage service that lets you backup and keep your content safely online, access it from anywhere, and share it with friends and family. When you first register, you’re given 5GB of free storage space for your content. If you decide that you need more space, you can add additional space by purchasing it.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to install Ubuntu One Client for Windows and begin sharing files and folders with your other Ubuntu machines.

 

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Easily Transform Ubuntu to Windows with Win2-7 Pack

If you ever wanted to play around the idea of transforming Ubuntu to Windows 7, then look no further than Win2-7 Pack, because this pack is the most comprehensive Ubuntu to Windows transformation pack I have ever come across. When you use Win2-7 Pack to transform Ubuntu to Windows, Ubuntu wouldn’t look exactly like Windows, but will be transformed enough so that someone who uses Windows will find it easier to use than when using Ubuntu without the transformation.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to install Win2-7 pack.

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Connect Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows Systems via Samba–Part Two

windows_natty_sharingToday we’ll continue with our series about connecting Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows Systems via Samba. To read Part One of this series, click here.

In Part One, we showed you how to change your computer name in Windows and also how to create a new workgroup name so that both Windows and Ubuntu systems can be a member of. In this article, we’ll show you how to install Samba and join Ubuntu to the workgroup you created earlier in Part One of this series.

 

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Connect Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows Systems via Samba–Part One

windows_natty_sharingThis article describes how to join Windows and Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Systems to the same domain or workgroup so that both systems can access and share files seamlessly. This tutorial will be written in series, starting with configuring Windows Systems. Our next articles will focus on configuring Ubuntu Systems and joining both systems to the same domain. When both PCs are in the same workgroup, file sharing between the two systems will be easy to accomplish.

 

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Run Multiple Operating Systems in Windows with VirtualBox–Part Three

virtualbox_thumbThis is the third part of our VirtualBox series about running multiple operating systems in Windows from a single computer. Read Part One and Part Two of this series.

Today we’ll continue with installing Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal on the new virtual machine we created in part two of this series. After creating a virtual machine, you can install whatever operating systems you’d like. But this tutorial will focus on installing Ubuntu Natty.

 

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