How to remove text from all the icons on the desktop in Vista and Windows 7

1. Right click on the Start button, and click Properties.
2. From the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog, click Customize.
3. Scroll down through the list until you shall find Run command. Check the box next to it.
4. Click OK.

You can use Windows Media Player to stream media from a home computer that stores digital media files to another computer connected to the Internet so you can access your media anywhere. Internet access to home media, or remote media streaming, frees you from having to transport large media files on your laptop or digital media player if you want to play them on the go. Remote media streaming also allows you to use a laptop with limited storage capacity to access a potentially large media collection on a desktop computer or home server.

 

Internet Home Media Access dialog box

To do this, you need:

• At least two computers that have remote streaming enabled. (One has a media library connected to a home network and streams the media, and the other one receives the stream.)

• A supported online ID linked to your Windows user account on at least two computers.

• An Internet connection.

The procedures below explain how to set up and use remote media streaming if you don't already have a linked online ID or if you have an existing linked ID. During setup, your home network router will usually configure itself automatically for remote streaming, but you might need to manually configure your router by using port forwarding.

Notes

• To send and receive your home media streams over the Internet, the current version of Windows Media Player must be installed on the computers you plan to use.

• The home computer used to stream media can't be on a public network or joined to a domain.

• A linked online ID can be associated with 10 Windows user accounts.

• Internet access to home media isn't available on Windows 7 Starter or Windows 7 Home Basic.

Oh, it’s not an iPad. Not even close to the smoothness and sleekness of one.

However, consider these points:

1) It’s less than half the price of the least-expensive iPad.
That’s $500 for a 16GB iPad versus less than $200 for something you can stick an SD card into — one up to 32GB!

2) It’s Android — which you can now make your own apps for.
Want a silly app with a picture of your cat meowing just for your own amusement? You can do that.

3) It’s in the price point of a crappy eInk device — yet it combines the features of three of them!
Forget buying a Kindle or a Nook or a Kobo Reader. This can do all three of those!

4) It will be on sale all over the place.
Staples, Target, Office Depot, Best Buy, and many, many other places.

What is this mystery device out of nowhere?

Just a day before Microsoft drops support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), the company announced on Monday that people running some versions of Windows 7 can "downgrade" to the aged operating system for up to 10 years.

The move is highly unusual. In the past, Microsoft has terminated downgrade rights -- which let customers replace a newer version of Windows with an older edition without paying for two copies -- within months of introducing a new OS.

While few consumers may want to downgrade from Windows 7 to XP -- unlike when many mutinied against Vista three years ago -- businesses often want to standardize on a single operating system to simplify machine management.

Monday's announcement was the second Windows XP downgrade rights extension. Microsoft originally limited Windows 7-to-Windows XP downgrades to six months after Windows 7's release, but backtracked in June 2009 after an analyst with Gartner Research called the plan a "real mess."