I am a great fan of Windows Run command as it allows to open any application or system folder by typing a short command instead of moving my mouse and navigating to the deep of my hard disk location. I do love to open Command Prompt, Registry Editor etc. by pressing Win + R key [...]
If you’ve recently bought your new computer or made major changes in the hardware configuration, for instance you’ve changed your mother board of your computer, you might be unable to run the previously installed Windows 7 operating system. The very usual fact is that the users accept this situation and they reinstall the operating system [...]
You might faced the situation when the Windows explorer does not work properly. For example, opening a folder from your explorer window takes a lot of time or it does not respond for any Windows explorer problems. In such a situation, many users like to restart their computer while some users just want to restart [...]
This is a simple and interesting tricks to change the text message appearing when shutting down Windows 7. By default, you see the message “Shutting down…” after pressing the Shutdown button or shutting down the windows in any way. But if you want to replace the text message with your own custom message like “Good [...]
Both the Windows 7 and XP have some hotkeys to do things easily and quickly. As example, the Win + E key combination will open the Windows explorer. Again if you press Win + U then it will open Accessibility Utility Manager. Related reading: Shortcut hack: Hide or Show Desktop Icons in Windows 7 Vista. [...]
Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is a file, created in Windows 7, that behaves as a separate usual hard disk drive of the computer. You can keep your favorite files and folders, apply disk encryption etc. Even, you can boot from that virtual disk drive by configuring the boot manager. This tutorial shows how to create [...]
Microsoft has developed the new Windows 7 Explorer search, featured with various little known utilities. One of them is that you can search the web exactly from your Windows 7 Explorer search box by creating your own search connector. You can also search in the popular search engines or site search providers like Bing, Yahoo, [...]
Searching in Windows 7 is a better experience than the previous versions of Windows as it featured with instant search option. You can search your computer, websites within from the Windows 7 explorer. That’s a great feature. But things can be done more flexible using some little tweaks. Did you ever thought about searching from [...]
Here is a nice utility that would be useful if file management into Windows is something you have to go through often. You have some point experienced how painfully surfing between Windows can become, when copying or browsing a number of files at different location of your computer. The Windows 7 explorer comes with some [...]
One of the best feature of Windows 7 taskbar is that you can pin your most used programs, browsers there. Even you can also pin important files and folders, websites, games as well. So you might want to keep a backup of your Windows 7 pinned items in your taskbar so that you can easily [...]
Right-clicking is one of the obvious activity to navigate into your Windows 7 widely. By default there are some useful shortcuts are included in the right-click context menu. But you can add more options there to organize things at your finger tip by playing with your registry. Copying the content of a file from the [...]
Now it is the age of Windows 7. Microsoft released this operating system with advanced feature, high security system and transparent, user friendly interface. But those who still love to use the Windows XP interface can get back their favorite quick launch bar in Windows 7. You can doc any item to the taskbar combining [...]