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Open the “Start” menu and click inside the “Search programs and files” box. Type “compmgmt.msc” (without the quotation marks) in the box and press “Enter.” Type your administrator username and password in the confirmation box if prompted. Click the “Disk Management” item in the Storage category in the left navigation pane. A list of all the hard drives, optical drives and removable storage drives on your system will load in the middle pane....

View the photo that you wish to delete in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Click the red “X” under the photo. You’ll be prompted to confirm that you want to delete the image. Click “Yes.” The picture is deleted.

Whenever a search is performed on the Internet, it is recorded in the browser’s history. This is beneficial if you want to check recent searches and websites that were viewed within the last week. However, if there are multiple users who access your computer, you may want to delete your search history. This protects your privacy by preventing other people from knowing the most recent content that you visited. This does mean, however, that you will not be able to use the history to find a website again if you forgot to bookmark it....

The Dell Support Center automatically updates your Dell computer and provides notification alerts. However, this program is not vital to your computer, and in some cases, might be more of a nuisance than anything else. This preinstalled program also runs at startup, which means it’s always there taking up system resources. If you’re tired of the Dell Support Center, you have two options for disabling it. Preventing it from running at startup conserves system resources but allows you to later launch the program manually....

Ever since IBM released the first personal computers in the early 1980s, games have been a part of the PC culture. Later, when manufacturers began shipping CD-ROM drives in computers, many users discovered quickly they could use their computers to watch videos or movies. Modern Internet streaming technologies now even let users watch movies without any discs at all. While playing games or watching movies on a computer often proves convenient, the relative small size of a PC monitor may make the experience less enjoyable than it could be if you were using a larger screen....

Click the “Text” posting option on your Tumblr dashboard to create a new post. To add the “Read More” link to a text post you already published, open the post in edit mode. Compose your post as you would normally. If you plan to add images to your text post, you can insert them now. Position your cursor at the point where you want to insert the link break, and then click the Insert Read More Break button in the posting window....

Updated August 29, 2017 Setting up a Facebook Page It is against Facebook’s terms to use your personal timeline mostly for commercial purposes (see Resources.) If you want to use Facebook commercially, you should create a Facebook Page for your product or brand. This kind of page is public, which means that anybody can visit it with the added advantage of reaching a wider audience. To set up a Facebook Page, navigate to Pages section in Facebook, select either “Local Business” or “Brand/Product” and complete all the details Facebook requires....

Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint are programs that come packaged in the Microsoft Office software suite. Word allows you to create word-processing documents while Excel is a spreadsheet-creation program. PowerPoint offers the tools to create high-quality slide show presentations. You can download the Office Home and Student 2010, which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint, for a free 60-day trial. Once the trial ends, you will need to purchase the license to continue using each program....

The GoGear line of portable MP3 players by Philips includes an array of models with various features and storage capacities. Philips employs its proprietary “Songbird” software for ease of music download and management from files on your computer, and you may also download entire music libraries from iTunes. If your Songbird software does not operate properly, has not been installed or if you are using an older GoGear model without software, you may use the “drag and drop” method to download MP3 music files....

Some cable boxes include a DVR feature that will record and save your favorite programs. Even with DVR, you are limited to the hours of programming you can store. You can move your favorite programming from the DVR to your computer, or capture live programming from your cable box. Once the content is captured on your computer, you can view it, edit it or even burn it to a disc to watch later....

Scribd is an online service that allows you to store documents on the Web, or view documents stored with the Scribd service. Using the service, you might get the impression that the only way to download a file on Scribd for your own use is by using the “Print & Download” option. However, Scribd does have a download method that allows you to download a copy of the document to your hard drive without printing....

Log into your Facebook account and put your mouse cursor over any sidebar link you do not want under the “Favorites” section. Click the small pencil icon that appears next to the link and click “Remove from Favorites.” Hover your mouse cursor over a sidebar link under a section other than the “Favorites” section. Click the small pencil icon next to that link and click “Add to Favorites.” Put your mouse cursor back on any of the “Favorites” links you just added....

MailChimp lets you use pre-designed and custom templates to create engaging email messages for your mailing list subscribers. MailChimp’s template language ensures accurate display of your email messages to your readers, while giving you the creative flexibility available with HTML and CSS. You can export and save MailChimp email templates from your user control panel as HTML files to access and edit them locally on your computer. Writer Bio

Software developers sometimes use a PKG or package file to store the various files needed to install their application, and you might want to extract files that are stored inside of the PKG file. Typically a person double-clicks on a PKG file to install software on the Mac, but if you want to see exactly what is inside the PKG before clicking on it, use a third-party PKG extraction program to extract the files....

Citizen band radios, better known by the colloquial “CB,” are designed for short to mid-range broadcasts between users. CB radios are affected by engine motions, cell broadcasts and electrical wires. These cause white noise and static on the CB, reducing the effectiveness of the radio. There are two methods of reducing this unwanted noise: using the squelch function on the radio or installing a noise filter. Writer Bio

Exploring cyberspace can be more gratifying if you have friends along for the ride. You may want to send a friend an article or funny picture, or simply drop them a line and see how they are. America Online, also known as AOL, is an Internet service owned by Time Warner that combines email, chat, and browser into one. AOL also has a feature built in that enables you to search for friends who are also AOL users....

International Mobile Equipment Identity number (IMEI) is a unique number that is specifically associated with each GSM and UMTS cell phones. This number helps you identify your phone if it gets stolen or misplaced. IMEI is also used to carry out phone unlock. For these reasons, it is a wise idea to write down the IMEI number and keep it accessible. Writer Bio

Every movie available for purchase has a UPC (Universal Product Code) tag. UPC codes are unique numerical identifiers assigned to individual items; these identifiers are used by stores for tracking. Finding out what the UPC code is without having the DVD in hand, however, can be difficult–unless you have access to the Internet. Online tools make finding out the UPC code for any movie very simple.

It can be frustrating when the cell phone rings and you can´t get there fast enough to answer it. The problem is made even worse when you have no idea who called. You want to know who it was, but don´t have caller identification (CID) installed on your phone. The good news is that there is a way to find the number from the last person who called you. Writer Bio

A read failure in conjunction with a no bootable devices error for your computer’s internal hard drive indicates that the operating system files on your hard drive have become corrupt. Repairing this issue is simply a matter of executing the Startup Repair features in your operating system, enabling you to rewrite the necessary files to the drive, allowing you to boot your computer once again. Writer Bio