Posts Tagged ‘netbook’

PostHeaderIcon HDD External Hard Drives

HDD hard drive external storage is solution for all your digital media and all the various data that can be used as Plug-n-Play with any PC or laptop in the world. This is a series outside the computer’s internal memory, and can be easily transported and move, and usually very small, too so it even fit in the pocket if not want to carry around a lot all day.

You may want to work with documents to work at home, or obtaining school data with you in your home, or just taking a photo library for your aunt make you see these wonderful photos you took on vacation last month.

External HDD are available in different capacities. If you only need documents, photos and more, you will be good for the really small size, like 200 GB, Where can you put more than a man can write in his entire life ! However, with more and more people use their computers to watch movies, listen to music and editing home movies, you may want to check the larger storage options, such as 2 or 3 TB, which is ten times more than the 200GB and sufficient for about 2600 movies and 400,000 songs, more than you can see or hear, so do not worry!

It ‘s really easy to use such an HDD external hard drive once you know how it’s done, and is a perfect solution for all your needs for storage and mobility.

PostHeaderIcon Windows 7 Theme

One way to do this is to install a custom theme, making the total appearance of the software look different. These can be based on your likings, such as sports, music, games, etc. Windows 7 does come with preloaded themes, but plenty of websites offer free themes to download online.

Do a keyword search on Google for Windows Theme Downloads. Once it has downloaded, select “Open with Themepackfile” and click OK. This will open the Windows Personalization Window. The theme you just downloaded will be highlighted. Simply click Desktop Background at the bottom of the window, and the theme you downloaded will now be your desktop background. You may now close the personalization window.

Once you have downloaded more than one theme, they can easily be changed right on your desktop. To do this, right click your desktop and select “Personalize”. You can then toggle between the different themes you have downloaded and ones Windows has by default until you find the perfect one!

Something important to note is that Microsoft does not allow a user to modify the shell of Windows 7, such as Windows Taskbar. If your file extension is not a.themepack file, you will have to download a theme patcher that will patch files onto your computer, and then can be set as your theme.

PostHeaderIcon Firewall and Network Security

Network Security and Firewalls, among other helpful programs, just want to keep your computer happy and away from danger.

Your average firewall is a basic form of network security used in most homes. A basic firewall’s purpose is simple – to disallow unauthorized access while letting everything else pass through. Every time a new program is installed in Windows, it asks to make an exception in the Windows Firewall, especially if the new program will be involved with the Internet. For example, the Steam Platform is a place to play games and buy them at cheap prices. If the Windows Firewall were to see this as malicious, it would not allow Steam and the Internet to make a connection. The same goes for games being played on Steam. Sometimes the firewall is overprotective and blocks communication for legitimate programs. This can be corrected by making an exception manually in the firewall options.

Another form of network security, and firewalls are included in this case, is called Unified Threat Management, also known as ITM. It is a type of network security that has been fast growing since the year 2004. UTM can be described as part of the evolution of the firewall. Not only does it include the function of a firewall, it also has content filtering, network intrusion prevention, load balancing, on-appliance reporting, and, of course, gateway antivirus.

So many viruses, spyware, and hacking programs plague that person’s computer that it just keeps slowing it down until it is all but frozen.