How to Add and Remove Favorites in Windows 7

Tweet Windows 7 now makes it easy to add and remove the favorites list through the Windows 7 explorer navigation pane on the left hand side of the screen. The following will list the steps in how to remove and add the favorites list in Windows 7.

How to remove Favorites

1) Click the start button and scroll over to computer option once their click on computer.

2) The computer window showing the windows 7 explorer navigation pane will open.

3) On the left hand side you will see the favorites list navigation pane.

4) Right click on the location that you want to delete.

5) Choose the location and click remove from the menu
 
How to Add Favorites

To add your own favorites folder to the favorites list follow these steps

1) Click the start button and scroll over and click the computer icon

2) If the computer has a computer icon on the desktop double click it to open it.

3) Open a folder that you would like to add to favorites

4) Right click on Favorites on the left side navigation pane

5) Click on the add current location to favorites from the menu

Or the second option to add a folder to the favorites navigation pane
 
1) Open the C:\ by double clicking on the computer icon on your desktop or by clicking the start button and scrolling over to the computer option and double clicking on the drive that says local disk(c:)

2) Click on the folder that you would like to add by holding down the left mouse button and dragging it to the favorites pane on the left hand side of the screen

3) Once done you will see the folder displayed in the favorites list navigation menu.

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This week's tech tips and news from New Millennium Computers

Tweet New Millennium Computers is always happy to share each week the latest tech tips and news of things happening in technology here is this weeks tech tips and news.

TECH TIPS

'Here you Have' Virus Tries to Delete Your Security Software

View up to three clocks on your Windows 7 desktop

How to reopen a browser tab that you just accidentally closed


TECH NEWS

Attention football fans!: Yahoo makes its fantasy football more social

Android Notifier Sends Notifications from Your Phone to Your Desktop

“We're downloading more apps than songs”

Who's That Texting Your Kids in Class 66% of the Time? Parents

Google Instant

Learn more about Google Instant in this CNET video

Google Instant Changes Game for Brands

Feross Aboukhadijeh from Standford University is applying the Google Instant model to YouTube videos

Privacy & Online Safety

Google launches Family Safety Center

Gang Uses Facebook to Rob Houses

Microsoft Releases Free Cyber-Security Ebook

Microsoft upgrades free app security tool

Textbooks are going digital

Replacing a Pile of Textbooks With an iPad

Ask Engadget: Best e-reader for school use / PDF viewing?

Here’s one suggestion: Dual-Screen Tablet Kno: A Digital Textbook Powered by $46 Million

How to uninstall Internet Explorer 8 from Windows XP, 7, and Vista when the remove option is shown in the control panel?

Tweet The first thing to do is to check the version of Windows you are using and to follow the instructions for the removal of IE8 on your computer. The following are steps to remove IE8 from Windows 7, Vista, and XP.

Steps for Windows XP

1) Click the start button.

2) Next click the control panel option on the right side of the start menu.

3) When the control panel open click on the Add or Remove Programs icon.

4) Look for Windows Internet Explorer 8 in the programs list.

5) Click the remove tab to the right of the program option to remove it.

6) Follow the the on screen instructions to remove IE8

7) Restart the computer to finalize the uninstall of IE8

Steps for Windows Vista

1) Close all programs

2) Click the start button then click control panel

3) Click Uninstall a Program under the Programs category

4) In the Tasks pane, click View installed updates.

5) In the list of installed updates, double-click Windows Internet Explorer 8.

6) In the Uninstall an update dialog box, click yes.

7) Follow the instructions to uninstall Internet Explorer 8.

8) When the uninstall program is finished, restart your computer.

Steps for Windows 7

1) Close all programs.

2) Click Start button and then click Control Panel

3) Under Programs, click Uninstall a program.

4) In the tasks pane, click Turn Windows features on or off.

5) In the list of windows features, clear the check box next to Internet Explorer 8.

6) You receive a warning message in a pop-up window. Click Yes.

7) Follow the instructions to uninstall Internet Explorer 8.

8)When the uninstall program is finished, restart your computer.

Note: Please remember to install a backup browser such as Firefox, or Google Chrome so you will be able to have internet access IE8 is not downgradable to its prior version and it is completely removed in Windows Vista, and Windows 7. For Windows XP the browser will be downgraded to it's prior version either IE6 or IE7 depending on the prior version of Internet Explorer software installed on the computer.

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