Guide to Network and Sharing Center in Windows 7, 8, 10

Guide to Network and Sharing Center in Windows 7, 8, 10 The Network and Sharing Center in Windows 7, 8 and 10 is one of the more important and useful Control Panel apps that lets you see information about your network and lets you make changes that can affect how you access resources on the network. Unfortunately, most people never mess around with network settings because they don’t understand what everything means and are afraid to mess something up....

December 21, 2015 · 9 min · 1730 words · Keith Williams

How to Insert or Embed an Excel Worksheet into a Word Document

How to Insert or Embed an Excel Worksheet into a Word Document Ever need to insert an Excel worksheet into a Word document and have them linked so that when you update the main Excel worksheet, it automatically updates the values in the Word document also? Well, there are actually a couple of ways to insert an Excel spreadsheet into Word: linking, embedding and creating a new one. Whether you embed or link, the inserted Excel spreadsheet will not automatically get updated unless you specifically create the link between the two files....

November 19, 2015 · 5 min · 1037 words · Jacob Romero

Geekiest Windows Accessory: the Math Input Panel

Geekiest Windows Accessory: the Math Input Panel Starting with Windows 7, Microsoft has included a new tool called the Math Input Panel, which is by far the geekiest program included in Windows by default. The old champ used to be the Calculator with itsScientific,ProgrammerandConversionmodes. With the Math Input Panel, you can write well-formed mathematical expressions and then have those inserted into other programs that supportMathMLorMathematical Markup Language. A couple of programs that support MathML are OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Calligra Suite and Microsoft Office....

November 18, 2015 · 4 min · 747 words · Tony Smith

How to Set File and Folder Permissions in Windows

How to Set File and Folder Permissions in Windows Normally, you don’t have to worry about permissions in Windows because that’s already taken care of by the operating system. Each user has their own profile and their own set of permissions, which prevents unauthorized access to files and folders. There are times, however, when you might want to manually configure the permissions on a set of files or folders in order to prevent other users from accessing the data....

November 13, 2015 · 8 min · 1496 words · Caroline King

How to Sync Two Folders in Real Time in Windows

How to Sync Two Folders in Real Time in Windows Ever wanted to keep two folders in two different locations synchronized in real-time? Maybe you have one folder on your desktop or laptop and you want to sync it with another PC in your home or to an external storage device like a USB hard disk or to a network attached storage device (NAS)? There are lots of freeware programs out there that can help you sync two folders, but very few of them do a good job of syncing the folders in real time....

November 10, 2015 · 5 min · 986 words · Sydney Golden
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