When you add a drive to your PC, by default it gets a drive letter, whether it is a removable drive or even a fixed hard drive inside of your PC. Lets take a look at how we can hide these drives.
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Friday, November 8, 2013
How to Assign a Static Drive Letter to a USB Drive in Windows 7
Do you have an external USB hard drive or flash drive that you use frequently for backups or for use with applications? Every time you plug it in you may get a different drive letter for that drive.
Resize a Partition for Free in Windows 7 or Vista
Windows 7 and Vista include a built-in functionality in Disk Management to shrink and expand partitions. No more 3rd party utilities needed!
To get to this utility, open up Control Panel, and type in partition into the search box.. you’ll immediately see the link show up:
Create Your Drives Partition. Without Any Software
There are tons of third-party partition managers for Windows, but did you know that Windows includes its own partition manager? Microsoft did a good job of hiding the built-in partition manager, but it’s there.
How to Create a Portable Version of Windows 8 Without Extra Software
For a long time Linux users have been able to install their OS onto a portable USB drive, but Windows just caught up. Read on to find out how you can install Windows 8 onto a USB drive so you can take it wherever you go.
Make Your Own Windows 8 Start Button with Zero Memory Usage
After using Windows 8 for a while, I’ve come to the conclusion that removing the Start
button from the Taskbar was a huge mistake. Here’s how to make your own “Start” button
that brings up the Metro Start screen—but doesn’t waste any memory at all.
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