Receiving a file with the extension docx means that a document typed in MS Word 2007 has been sent to you, and it is essentially the same as a doc file. the differences lie in the way the file is created, and not in the content, so a business report, sales letter, child’s birthday party invitation, or any document that can be prepared in Word, can be saved in either file format.

Docx came about because the older doc format faced a lot of compatibility problems with other word processing applications such as WordPerfect or StarOffice. Microsoft finally agreed to create a file extension that could be used by everyone without limitation in the early 2000s, with the first implementation of their docx format being integrated into the 2007 version of MS Office.

Millions of people around the world literally can’t view docx files because in popularity terms MS Office 2007 is still quite new, and a lot of computer users will never buy a license for it if they rarely have a need for word processing. Docx viewers have as a consequence become quite popular.

Viewing a docx file doesn’t require installing applications you’d never use again, it is possible to read a docx file by sending it to your gmail account as an attachment, and using Google’s online viewer to read the contents, although embedded images aren’t displayed which can limit the usefulness of their viewer.

An extension for the Firefox browser is being developed for viewing docx formats, known as the OpenXMLViewer, the plugin will install as easily as other Firefox plugins and either allow users to view an online docx file, or open one from a hard drive or zip drive that will be rendered by Firefox as if the file was a webpage.

Docx viewers can also be downloaded from either the Microsoft website, or many shareware sites, and then installed on the users computer. These tend to work in the same way as other viewers such as Adobe’s Acrobat pdf viewer. The file is opened and displayed correctly, but cannot be edited or saved. If editing and saving a docx file is important, the OpenOffice free office suite can be downloaded and installed, and is as capable as the Microsoft equivalent.

Additional Reading on Docx Files

• What is a docx file?
• How to convert docx to doc.
• How to open docx files.
• What is a docx viewer?
• What is a docx converter?

Being able to enjoy many various forms of media is surely one of the greatest things about the computers today. Being only black or white at some time, today computers are more advanced and are a complete entertainment system for most people. There is extensive use of media players by people to view audio and video files on their computers. WMV is one such file type delivering synchronous audio and video, and is very popular among people. This format is very easy to play and is thus very common.

What is WMV?

Little more should be known about this format before you play these files. WMV is the abbreviation for Windows Media Video, which was developed by Microsoft, for the special purpose of internet streaming. However, these files can be viewed from any other media source as well. WMV9 is the current available version of this format. A codec however, is required to play this file format. The software which can successfully read a particular format and create audio and video images from any data provided is called as a codec. The codec required for WMV files is generally free and very easy to find. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

How can one delete the Internet History?

Deleting one’s Internet history completely erases the record of the web pages a user visits and even the saved passwords and data.

Deleting the Internet History in Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer keeps a record of the internet history for 20days by default.

You can delete the internet history in Internet Explorer by making use of the following steps: READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

DVD stands for Digital Video Disc, DVD’s can be copied, record to or burned just like the compact discs (CD’s).

Before burning a DVD it is essential that we know what type of DVD we want to burn. The process by which we burn a DVD depends on the form of DVD we use. The three types of DVD’s we burn to a DVD are Multimedia files, Data DVD’s and making copies and burning to a commercial DVD.

BURNING DATA TO DVD

Out of the three ways of burning a DVD the easiest is burning everyday normal data. The reason is that normal data like spreadsheets, back ups, documents, database files, etc require general DVD burning software without any special type of software which is region specific. Whatever data we burn can be easily played using a DVD drive on any computer.

Most of the times we download free software for DVD burning or purchase the same but for the newly purchased computers this software already is configured and installed for the DVD burner and your machine. We just have to open the software for DVD burning, choose burning DATA DVD and follow instructions. We can burn a DVD of about 4.7 GB data in a very short time of 20 minutes or less with the high speed burners. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

I forgot my LinkSys Router Password?
If you’re finding it hard to remember your LinkSys router password, don’t worry! You can now get your LinkSys router back to its initial stage by resetting it to its factory default settings.

It’s extremely easy to complete the process of resetting router configuration to its factory default settings. In fact, all you need to do is merely holding the reset button for at least 30 seconds. However, you’ll require login and reconfiguring it again after you complete resetting your LinkSys Router Password.

The procedure to reconfigure your LinkSys is not so tough as well. Firstly, you’ll need to connect a computer to one of your LinkSys Router’s Ethernet ports. After that, launch a web browser and follow the link, http://192.168.1.1/. By doing so, you’ll be reaching to a popup box that lets you to enter a username and a password so that you could be able to login to your LinkSys router without any trouble.
LinkSys Default Password
The default name and password on the earlier LinkSys routers is “blank” and “admin” respectively. However, when it comes to today’s Linksys routers, “admin” is usually both the default username and password.

You’ll be able to reconfigure your LinkSys router at ease after once you successfully pass through the login page.