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I recently had the privilege of formatting 3 machines at my home and my parents' . I like to format my machine now and then but the family decided to upgrade their Operating Systems from the old Windows XP Professional to Windows 7 But, being family, they decided to get some hack to try reloading the OS first rather than wait for me :/ Well, he managed to install Windows 7 , but the boot menu had a little more to say.. There was a broken Windows XP Setup and good old "EARLIER VERSION OF WINDOWS" This means that he took the shortcut method of letting Windows 7 manage things rather than format the HDD. So what happens is, that every time I boot the machine, Instead of automatically loading Windows 7 , it shows me1. Earlier Version of Windows 2. Windows Professional XP Setup 3. Windows 7 Now, of course, we want Windows 7 to load automatically instead of seeing the Boot Menu each time. In my scenario, I used Command Prompt (bcdedit) to remove the entries but I don't recommend this to regular / novice users. The easiest method to configure startup and edit the boot.ini in a Windows 7 machine (Remember, windows 7 does not have a boot.ini, only XP and older have it, Windows 7 instead has bootmhgr.dll) is through a software called EasyBCD I wish I had screenshots You can download the free version of EasyBCD from their website by entering your name and email address - here When you run the software, it shows you information about your current boot menu. To remove entries for Windows XP (edit boot.ini) , you need to click Tools -> Edit Legacy Entries . Remove all the lines mentioning XP and save! Once you reboot, you will not be plagued by the boot Menu options. This software is really multi purpose, it will let you add / delete addtional Operating Systems to your Boot options, prioritize them so that you can directly load one OS instead of having to select it each time on boot. Definitely deserves 5 stars

Yesterday, I had the need to create a PC to PC connection to transfer some data from my PC to my friend's. I am quite used to creating these connections to transfer files. I use an ethernet croos link wire for this purpose and I have successfully done it in the past. But yesterday strange things happened that I didn't understand. First of all, let me tell how I do it so that anyone who would want to help me would find it easier to help.I go to the properties for the ethernet connection in both the computers and there I make changes to the "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)" properties. I change the "Obtain an IP address automatically" to "Use the following IP address" and the enter the following values in the first computerIP address: 192.168.1.1subnet mask: 255.255.255.0Default gateway: 192.168.1.2and the following in the second computer:Ip address: 192.168.1.2Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0Default gateway: 192.168.1.1And then I make sure that both computers have the same workgroup name and that's all. The connection starts and I can start sharing files between the two computers.But yesterday, when I did the same, I went through strange issues. First of all the setting didn't work at all. But when I reversed them, the name of the computers appeared. In my computer, the netwrok was "Home network" but in the other computer, instead of one network, two networks appeared. One of them was home and other was "unidentified". I didn't understand why two networks appeared on that pc. By the way, when I tried to see whether I can access the files on my personal computer from the second computer, I couldn't. Just the name of my computer showed and the connection to it couldn't be established. But when I tried to view the files of the other computer from my personal computer, I successfully did so.I don't understand where things went wrong.