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How To: Enable Quick Launch Toolbar In Windows 7

admin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:18:37 +0000

You know that Quick Launch Bar is no longer available in Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7.You should note that the new Windows 7 taskbar allows you to dock items to the taskbar, combining the features of both the normal taskbar as well as the Quick Launch.But some users may find that they really need the Quick Launch bar back like it was in Windows Vista and XP. Windows 7 doesn’t give you any instant way to bring it back, but it is still possible.Because Microsoft has not read more

How To: Disable Or Turn Off Taskbar Thumbnail Preview Feature In Windows 7

admin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:09:20 +0000

Taskbar Thumbnail Preview is an interesting feature in Windows 7, displays small thumbnail preview of opened window on your taskbar when you hover your mouse on taskbar icons. Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Preview feature actually a resource hog. So it is better to disable this feature on low configuration computers running on Windows 7. For this you can adopt any of the following three methods: Method 1: Throgh Group Policy Editor: Click on start and type on search bar gpedit.msc and press read more

How To: Speed Up Taskbar Thumbnail Preview In Windows 7

admin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:03:52 +0000

Taskbar Thumbnail Preview is a new feature in Windows7, displays small thumbnail preview of opened window on your taskbar when you hover your mouse on taskbar icons.Taskbar Thumbnail Preview feature actually a resource hog. But if you have enough hardware resources , then it would add an extra appeal to your Windows 7 user interface .But one issue with Thumbnail Preview feature is, it takes some time(about 400 ms) to display thumbnail once you hover your mouse on taskbar icon by that time read more

How To: Run Windows Sidebar Gadgets With UAC Disabled In Windows 7

admin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:34:22 +0000

In Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 7, desktop sidebar and UAC(User Account Control) are closely related. This means if you turn of or disable UAC in windows 7 then sidebar will not work. The reason for this is that Microsoft made the assumption that the sidebar process would never be run in an elevated state. This has been done to prevent users from installing any malicious unsigned desktop gadget in windows 7. But in previous Microsoft’s operating system Windows Vista, read more

How To: Unlock Hidden Regional Themes In Windows 7

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:47:22 +0000

Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7 has 5 themes by default, but Windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 onwards has several hidden & locked themes provided for regional countries such as Australia, Canada, Great Britain, United States and South Africa.Since these hidden themes are installed along with your Windows 7 installation, you can easily unlock/unhide these hidden Windows 7 Themes for regional countries. To unlock Windows 7 hidden regional themes: Open Windows Explorer and read more

How To: Fix The Bug “Windows Update Crashes Windows Explorer In Windows 7″

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:36:33 +0000

When you try to run Windows Update from Internet Explorer (Safety – Windows Update) in Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7 or sometimes when you try to run Windows Update directly or installing an application, the explorer session might crash and stop responding. Microsoft has identified this issue in Windows 7 may be related to a configuration change in the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) client.Any process that calls WinSqmStartSession in ntdll.dll will read more

How To: Use ClearType Text Tuner In Windows 7

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:56:15 +0000

ClearType is a software technology developed by Microsoft that improves the readability of the text on existing LCDs,Flat panel monitors and other display devices.ClearType font technology makes the text on your computer screen sharp and clear.To get the full benefit of ClearType font technology, you’ll need a high-quality, flat-panel monitor, such as LCD or plasma. ClearType is turned on by default in Microsofts new operating system, Windows 7. Windows 7 also includes a ClearType Text read more

How To: Prevent Use Of Offline Files In Windows 7 Or In Windows Vista

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:17:41 +0000

About Offline Files In Windows Vista/Windows 7: Offline Files is a very useful feature in Windows operating systems including Windows Vista and Windows 7.This maintains a local cache of remote files and folders on your Windows computer, so that they are available to you when you are working offline, improving the experience for mobile (laptop) users.You continue to access these files in the same way that you accessed them when you were online because the shared network resource paths and name read more

How To: Clear Print Queue In Windows Vista Or In Windows 7

admin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:36:43 +0000

It is a fact that Microsoft Windows won’t allow anyone to remove a hanging print job.This is because the Windows operating systems including Windows Vista and Windows 7 has to wait for the confirmation from the printer.But if the printer also hangs,the print job is stuck in the queue.A print queue is a list of all the print jobs waiting to print on a particular printer.One way to solve this annoying problem is to restart the Windows computer.But in some cases even a computer restart read more

How To: Configure VPN Connections In Windows 7

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:45:51 +0000

Many people don’t know how to configure the computer for accepting VPN(Virtual Private Network) connections in Windows 7.A VPN(Virtual Private Network) is a private network created over a public one.A VPN is a method of connecting to a private network by a public network like the Internet.There are basically two connections in VPN one for Incoming & another for outgoing.This tutorial will help you to configure your computer to connect to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) in Windows read more

How To: Use Display Color Calibration Tool To Calibrate Your Display In Windows 7

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:12:04 +0000

Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7 includes a feature called,Display Color Calibration tool to calibrate your display.Calibrating your display ensures that the colors are displayed correctly on your monitor.You can control the display factors such as gamma, adjust brightness and contrast and color balance.Display Color Calibration tool in Windows 7 allows you to set your Color Management much more accurately than ever before.Display Color Calibration Wizard in Windows 7 also read more

How To: Delete Undeletable Previous Operating System Files In Windows 7

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:22:23 +0000

You know the fact that Windows Vista to Windows 7 upgrade is possible and Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrade is not possible.When you install Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7 on a different hard disk partition and the data from your previous operating system(say Windows Vista) becomes Undeletable in Windows 7.Usually this problem of undeletable previous operating system files and folders in Windows 7 is due to the Access control list of these object is associated with SID of old read more

How To: Enable Or Turn On Guest Mode Feature In Windows 7

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:11:33 +0000

Microsoft’s new generation operating system Windows 7 includes a hidden and interesting feature called Guest Mode that is primarily aimed at shared consumer PCs that need to be returned to their original running state after being used by a child or guest.Windows 7 Guest Mode isn’t the same as the “Guest Account”, sometimes enabled on your system.It is just a feature of the User Accounts setup that an administrator can enable or disable, with one sub-option to control read more

How To: Fix Desktop.ini Pop Up During Windows 7 Startup

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:34:36 +0000

Symptoms: You may have noticed that a Notepad window will automatically open upon every system startup or reboot in Windows 7.This opened Notepad window will open desktop.ini with the following text: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21787 Causes: This is a bug in Microsofts new generation operating system Windows 7, that desktop.ini file been mistakenly been placed or created on the Windows startup folder. To fix for this Windows 7 desktop.ini read more

How To: Activate Hidden Windows 7 Administrator Account

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:06:03 +0000

Similar to former operating system Windows Vista, Microsoft’s new OS Windows 7 also has a built-in administrator account which is created when it is installed and it is disabled by default.Whenever you want to perform tasks under the administrator account with no UAC (user account control) in Windows 7, you need to enable the administrator account.You can go through this grand Administrator account to solve a problem or blocking rights, or simply activate it and keep it in reserve in read more

How To: Disable Windows Defender Service In Windows 7

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:07:58 +0000

Windows Defender which was previously known as Microsoft AntiSpyware is an anti-spyware/malware utility that built-in in Microsofts new generation operating system Windows 7 to detect, prevent, remove and quarantine spywares.Many people are looking for ways to disable, uninstall or remove Windows Defender from system so that they could install any other anti-spyware programs in Windows 7. Steps required to disable Windows Defender in Windows 7: Go to the Windows 7 Start menu, type defender read more

How To: Add Take Ownership Option To Explorer Right Click Context Menu In Windows Vista Or In Windows 7

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:58:05 +0000

If you hold down Shift key while right clicking on any file in Windows Vista or Windows 7 explorer, you can see few more options in the context menu.You can easily add one more option to the file context menu called “Take Ownership” option which will be very useful to take ownership of any file.As many of you know, we need to take the ownership of system file in Windows Vista or in Windows 7 that you want to alter by any means. You need to have the ownership to do even simple read more

How To: Fix Crashing Of Windows Explorer And Installer In Windows 7

admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:05:24 +0000

Many Windows 7 users have started experiencing random crashing of Windows Explorer and msiexec.exe when trying to start Windows Update or install anything that uses an MSI(Originally called the Microsoft Installer but later renamed the Windows Installer) based installer. An issue with the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) client in Microsoft’s new generation operating system,Windows 7 beta is causing Explorer and some MSI-based installers to stop working properly.The read more

How To: Remove and Disable Annoying Send Feedback Link In Windows 7

admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:27:26 +0000

Microsoft puts a watermark (link) at the upper right corner of every window in their new generation operating system Windows 7 Beta, that says “Send Feedback”. If you want to send feedback to Microsoft about the new operating system, you can also send feedback by clicking the “Send Feedback” button that Windows 7 automatically installs on your desktop, or you can just type “feedback” into the Windows search box. If “Send Feedback” link at the title read more

How To: Add Delete Folder Contents Option To Windows 7/Vista Right Click Context Menu

admin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:27:06 +0000

With a simple windows registry tweak you can add the option Delete Folder Contents to the right-click context menu which appears when you right-click a folder in Windows 7 or in Windows Vista.This would come handy at times when you want to delete all the files inside a folder and all it’s sub-folders without deleting the folders themselves. Method 1: Click on Windows 7/Vista Start button, type regedit in the start menu search box and hit enter. Navigate to the following registry read more