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How to find the health of the battery in your laptop in Windows 7

How will you find the health of your battery in your laptop?? This is easy my friend. Open Command Prompt. (Run > cmd) Type “powercfg –energy” in command prompt without quotes. A HTML file named "energy-report.html " will be generated and   stored in your Primary Hard drive letter drive, say C drive. Open the html file and there you can see something like     Design full Charge       Last Full Charge The lower the value of the Last full charge than the design full charge, the lower your batter has gone down in its efficiency and capability!!!!!!!!!

Encrypt USB pen drive In Windows 7 and other Versions like Windows Xp and vista using BitLocker

Windows 7 comes with a security feature BitLocker. It helps you to Password protect your Pendrive and USB Drive.You can protect Pen drive and usb drives using a password that you can set yourself. During the encryption process, Windows 7 installs a special reader on the USB drive. When you connect the USB drive to a computer running XP or Vista, the password will be asked and you are ready to go as the data is safe and secure. To set up password on a pen drive : Insert a USB drive, and go to Control Panel > Bit Locker Drive Encryption. Then enable the the Bitlockker protection for this pendrive. Some Initialisation work will be done. BitLocker To Go will prompt for a password which you can use to unlock the drive later. BitLocker To Go will prompt you to store a recovery key that helps unlock your drive in case you forget your password. Recovery Key can be saved in a file . After this The encryption [process will begin and there you go!! Your Pen drive data is now Password protec