In Reg Organizer there’s a built-in protection system that automatically creates backup copies of all data being changed in the registry during the cleanup process. This allows you to restore your system in something went wrong. Faults are rare when you clean the registry with Reg Organizer, but they still may happen sometimes. If that […]

We all know what a file archive is. Simply put, an archive is a container with a certain amount of files put together so that an operating system treats them as a single file. The advantages of using archives are also well known: at first, archiving can significantly reduce the amount of disk space needed to store the files, both due to compression of files and due to space saved from partially occupied clusters. Also it is much easier to send a single archive via FTP or by e-mail rather than scattered files.

Internet is full of various cloud services that allows their users to store any information on their servers. This is convenient to store backups. First, archives on the remote server do not depend on the health of your hard drive. And they are always available, from any place in the world. So this article shows how to create automatic backups using any archiver, Windows Scheduler and one of such cloude services – Dropbox.

There are many different backup applications all over the web. However few of us know that an automatic backup system can be built with a usual archiver and the built-in Windows Scheduler. Let’s take a closer look on how this can be done.

In Windows 7 the operation of deleting files or folders is implemented in a very smart way. To begin with, a user can remove objects one by one, or with entire groups. For the first option, you should simply set the cursor to the desired file or folder. To perform group deletion you should select objects with your mouse and Shift and Ctrl buttons.

Hundreds of documents, photos and other files get stored on your computer while you work on it. So when you eventually need to find some particular file, you face with difficulties. Especially, if you need a not so commonly used file. Users often have to look through many folder manually trying to find the documents they need among hundreds of others. However, in Windows 7 there are convenient tools that deliver fast and effective search of desired objects.

In Windows 7 like in all other OSes of this family there is a built in tool to perform hard disk defragmentation. But unlike tools from earlier versions it is quite functional and is really capable to perform well.

The most convenient way to work with files in Windows 7 is Explorer. Using Explorer you can browser the contents of your hard drive and other storages connected to your computer, and also control these contents. Including renaming existing files or folders.

The significant part of our everyday information neither is stored in paper notebooks, nor is it written down somewhere else. We have got used to computers so much that we don’t even think of where to store our data. Our hard drive – that is the place where we keep everything – notes, passwords, personal data, projects and documents. But we usually forget that this place is open to anybody, not only to its owner.

Formally, a file system is a way to organize, store and name data at information storage devices. But we can say simpler: it is a format of saving information at various storage devices and, in the first place, at the computer hard disk. Windows 7 utilizes the NTFS file system which is the most commonly used system nowadays.