If you’ve ever used a microphone to record your voice using your computer, you’ve likely been irritated by the background noise that is picked up along with your recording.

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How to Get Rid of Ambient Noise in an Audio File using Audacity

Desktop wallpaper sets the mood for all we do on our Windows-based computers. But, even the best vacation photographs grow stale after a while. To keep energy flowing while behind a computer screen, we should change our desktop wallpaper often—or at least periodically.

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Rotate Your Desktop Wallpaper Automatically with Photos from Flickr

Windows 7 does a good job of shielding users from irrelevant and complex goings on under the hood of the operating system. However, there are times when you need to see what is going on underneath Windows 7’s pretty exterior to troubleshoot an error during startup and shutdown.

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Force Windows 7 to Display Verbose Information During Startup and Shutdown

It’s so annoying when you’re watching a movie and all of a sudden your anti-virus program sounds its VPS update or your Outlook gives off its New Mail Notification. It’s a moment breaker especially when you’re about to cry or the movie has reached its climax scene. You can turn-off several Windows-based sounds by accessing their audio program settings in the Control Panel

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Turn off all Windows Sounds while Watching a Movie or Listening to Music

For the average user, there aren’t many differences among the multiple versions of Windows 7 until you get to the server and other enterprise level versions of the operating system. Consequently, some options that are just fine for home use end up enabled in versions intended for use in work environments. One such case has to do with whether just anyone can shut down a PC running Windows 7 even if that person isn’t logged in to the system

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Prevent Users from Shutting Down Windows 7 Unless They are Logged In