Disable Windows 7 Splash Screen: Make Booting Faster by Few Seconds

Windows 7 Splash Screen is the small clip that plays while booting your PC, laptop which show the windows logo saying "Starting Windows" which is around for a few seconds. Now if booting quickly is important to you then you can choose to remove and disable that splash screen which save you around 6-8 seconds of your boot time.

Speed Up Boot Time: Remove Windows Splash Screen

Follow the steps below to disable Windows 7 Splash Screen.

Step 1: Access System Configuration Tool. Press (windows key) + R and type in msconfig and press Enter or search for "System Configuration" in windows 7 program search from the start menu.

Step 2: In the System Configuration window click on the Boot tab. Now check the "No GUI Boot" option enabled.

Step 3: Click Apply and OK and Restart to see the settings in action.

The next time your pc boots it goes directly to the windows logon screen without wasting few seconds on the windows splash screen.

(Note: Working and effective in Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit)

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How To Password Protect Microsoft Word 2007 Files

In this tutorial I will explain to you the step by step procedure with screenshots on "How To Password Protect Microsoft Word 2007 Files."

1. Click on the Microsoft Office Button present on the top left corner of the window.

2. Now Click on the Save As option

3. Now a new window will pop up.Click on Tools option at the bottom of the window.

4. Select General Options

5. Type the desired password you want

6. Click OK.

That's all. I hope you'll find this tip useful. :)

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Three Ways To Open MS Office 2007 Files In MS Office 2003

This tip will help you to resolve the compatibility issues between the Office 2003 and Office 2007. Because all programs in office 2003 used the old file extensions for its different programs.  I have collected three different ways/solutions/tricks to resolve this issues, follow the steps below.

First Solution:

"Renaming the File Extension"

Just rename the file extension of the filename by removing the "x" letter at the end.. For example, .docx will become .doc and .xlsx will become .xls. Simple as that. 

Second Solution:

"Using the Microsoft Compatibility Pack"

Instructions:

First download this. Microsoft Compatibility Pack

When you have downloaded the file, double click on FileFormatConverter.exe file to start the installation.

Now here it’s simply a case of pretending you’ve read the license terms and clicking continue.

Now click on Ok button to complete the installation.

Once the process is done, you can enjoy opening .docx files on Word 2003.

Third Solution:

"Save MS Office 2007 Files  in Office MS 2003 Format"

This is the simplest way. If you're going to save your MS Office 2007 files, choose the file type, Word 97-2003 Documents (*.doc). In this way you will be able to open your files in both MS Office 2003 & 2007. Because 2003 format doesn't have any compatibility issues with 2007 format.

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That's all. Feel free to try any of this. Its all working, anyway. :)

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