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If you have a computer containing a lot of files, private information, movies, music and so on you know how important to backup all this stuff is. This is especially useful if your machine is old and you fear that it may break any time soon. But, backing up is also important on new machines because it will save and protect your data from…anything  such as hard disk failure, short circuits etc. In order to make this process less painless and annoying, let’s see how to backup everything automatically! Continue reading »

If you like watching YouTube videos of your favorite singer or band, you know how useful would be to have the lyric of that song you like so much! Unfortunately, YouTube has not integrate such a feature yet. However, I have got a great, free solution for you. So let’s see how, thanks to a simple script, you will be able to display the lyrics of whatever song you want right next to YouTube videos. Continue reading »

Among the many features available in Windows 7, we can find the Display Color Calibration which allows you to calibrate the display or screen color of your computer in order to get an optimal color view, be your computer screen an LCD or a CRT, for example. However, this feature hides a bothering and annoying downside. Continue reading »

Kodu is a nice game creator provided by Microsoft which helps kinds and youngsters  to program so they can create their own video games to play and share on their PCs.  Kodu is an interesting software by Microsoft Research which invites children to create their own worlds while teaching them the basics of game development. Continue reading »

After playing with Windows 7 options and features you might face the annoying issue that all of your shortcuts (or just some of them) have disappeared from your computer desktop. No fear! That’s quite normal. In fact, Windows 7  deletes all those shortcuts which may be corrupted, deleted or broken. The System Maintenance Troubleshooter on its own accordance and following its own schedule, performs a weekly maintenance of the whole operating system to fix  errors, things which have gone “wrong” and eventually reports problems through Action Center.  Continue reading »

OK guys, this is an experiment since this is the FIRST promotion which is completely dedicated to Web Talk readers who own a blog or a website. As you can guess this contest didn’t go well. So I have decided to open it to everybody. Read after the jump what you have to do to win! Continue reading »

Recently, Microsoft has released an interesting patch for Windows 7 meant to solve a nasty bug which freezes the computer while copying data and files from your PC to any USB storage devices such as USB dongles, external hard drives etc.  Let’s see in details what this bug is about and how to fix it. Continue reading »

Right yesterday, Microsoft Office 2010 RC 14.0.4734.1000 was released to a selected number of beta testers who are members of TAP (Technology Adoption Program). Of course, a day has not passed yet that this beta version has been leaked in the Internet. Let’s see more details about it. Continue reading »