Tips From The Geek

The Importance Of Backup in our life

If you are a computer user you should learn about the importance and need of back up. Because without backup you can lose your data any time due to any virus, power failure and hard disk problem. This has happened to many people. In extreme cases, it has put companies out of business. Computers are becoming more and more reliable. This creates a false sense of security - we begin to think all our data are safe and secure and will never go away. It's not true - and never will be. If you don't back up your computer system regularly. Backups are really a necessity, and you are responsible for making backups of your files.

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Microsoft Office 2007 Compatibility Pack

To meet the needs of users upgrading to the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Microsoft offers updates and a compatibility pack for older versions of Office that enable a user to open and save 2007 Office release XML files. Microsoft has added new file formats to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 to reduce file size, improve security, improve reliability, and enhance integration with external data sources. To ensure that you can exchange documents between different Office versions, Microsoft has developed the Compatibility Pack for the Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.

By installing the Compatibility Pack along side of Office XP or 2003, you will be able open, edit, save, and create files using the Open XML Formats new to Office 2007. Office 2000 users, as well as users of Windows 2000 SP4 and later, can convert Open XML Formats to binary file formats from within Windows Explorer.

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Windows 7 - Calculate more

At first glance the Windows 7 calculator looks just like Vista's version, but explore the Mode menu and you'll see powerful new Statistics and Programmer views. And if you're clueless about bitwise manipulation, then try the Options menu instead. This offers many different unit conversions (length, weight, volume and more), date calculations (how many days between two dates?), and spreadsheet-type templates to help you calculate vehicle mileage, mortgage rates and more.

Don't take any Windows 7 applet at face value, then - there are some very powerful new features hidden in the background. Be sure to explore every option in all Windows applets to ensure you don't miss anything important.

CALCULATE MORE: The new Calculator is packed with useful features and functionality

Do not use email service from your Internet Service Provider

Many user seems to use their email address from their ISP, such as optusnet and bigpond. The biggest drawback is the unavailability of the email account if you change your internet service to other ISP or end up paying the rental just to maintain the email address.

There are many free email services you can use for life, and they are as good as your ISP email service. Such as Gmail, hotmail and yahoo mail. Pick a free email service now and start moving your friend over, it never gets too late.

Faster Turn Off and Start Up your Computer

When you have Windows installed for several month or more it can become very slow. It's not only your programs run slower than usual but also Shut Down and Start Up time increases a lot. What you can do to make computer turn off and start up faster?

The easiest way to decrease up and down time for your computer is to use hibernate function. You will be impressed with the results. It can take up to 2 or 3 minutes for old and stuffed computer to shut down but with hibernating you can leave your computer after 15-20 seconds. Starting up also takes much less time.

The main concept of hibernating is that computer saves all the information of working Windows OS to the hard drive and later only has to load already working Windows session. You can even watch DVD movie from the point where you left before hibernating.

How to use hibernation?

Press Start button and as usual select Turn of Computer. On the popup window press Shift and you will see that Standby button changes to Hibernate. Press it and you're done. Literally you can continue one session even a month if you never shut down your computer fully. But we suggest you to do so once in a while because sometimes one program can become unstable and you will load that error again and again, but if everything works fine you can hibernate as much as you want.