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  • Win 7 Tips- Split Screen

    Split Screen– Windows 7

    Information

    This article will show you how to easily split your screen in Windows 7. This split screen feature is new with Windows 7 and lets you view 2 screens side by side. Both screens are active so you can just move your mouse from screen to screen to work. Being able to view two documents or web sites side by side is an excellent feature in Windows 7.

    This article will help you to Use Split Screen In Windows 7.
    Instructions
    1. Open the documents or web sites you want to view side by side. If you want to look at two web sites side by side you will need to open 2 separate browser sessions not just have 2 tabs open on the same browser. That means you need to click the browser icon to open another browser session.

       

    2. Go to the screen you want to view on the left. Hold the Windows icon key down. This is the key that has the windows 7 logo on it. It is usually in the bottom left of your keyboard. Hold the left arrow key at the same time you are holding down the windows icon key. This will move your first window to the left.

       

    3. Go to the screen or document you want to display on the right. Repeat the steps above. Hold the Windows icon key down and the right arrow key at the same time. This will move your second open window to the right.

       

    4. Hold the Windows icon key down and the up arrow key at the same time to maximize your window again. You will need to put your mouse on the screen or document you want to maximize and then press both keys down simultaneously.

  • Change File Associations_win 7 tips

    Have you ever tried to double-click on a file only to find it always opens in the wrong application? Sometimes when you install an application, it will covertly change the file association of one or more file types to use the new application. Or maybe you just prefer to use on program over another.

    Here’s how to change file associations in Windows 7 so that the program you want to use will open your files by default.
    Instructions

    1. Browse to the folder location of the file that you’d like to change.
    2. Right-click on the file, scroll down hover your cursor over “Open with.” On the fly-out window to the left, click “Choose default program“.
    3. In the “Open with” window, check Recommended Programs section for your desired program. If you don’t see the program you’re looking for, click on the downward caret symbol to the right to reveal “Other Programs.”
    4. If the desired program still does not appear, click the Browse button and browse for the desired program. It will likely be found in the Program files directory.
    5. Once you’ve selected the desired program, be sure to click the “Always use the selected program to open this kind of file” box, then click “Ok.”
      All files with the same file extension will open with your desired program now that you have changed the file association in Windows 7.

  • Disable Auto Update Restart_win 7 tips

    Windows 7 automatic updates help to keep your computer secure and up to date with the latest bug fixes and security patches. It highly recommended that you have it enabled, but can be really annoying when it continuously nags you to reboot your computer. The good news it is very easy to disable the auto-restart using Local Group Policy Editor.

    This article will help you to disable Windows 7 auto update restart.
    Instructions

    1)Click the Start menu and type “gpedit.msc” (without quotes) in the search line and press the enter key. This will launch the Local Group Policy Editor.

    2)On the left side of Local Group Policy Editor, expand to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components. Then scroll down and select Windows Update.

    3)Double click “No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations” option. In the properties window that appears, change the option from “Not Configured” to “Enabled“. Click “OK” and close Local Group Policy Editor. Windows will no longer prompt you to restart after automatically installing updates.

  • Windows 7 Tips- Disable Aero Snap

    Disable Aero Snap (and Switch Among Open Windows More Quickly)

    Sometimes, automatic actions that are meant to be helpful can turn out to be frustrating if they aren’t doing what you are really trying to do.

    Likewise, you might want to disable Aero Snap—the feature which automatically snaps windows to a certain size and position when you drag their title bars on the desktop.
    Instructions

    1) Click the Start button to open the Start menu.

    2) Type ‘mouse‘ in the Search Files And Programs box.

    3) Select Change ‘How Your Mouse Works‘ from the list of items that are found.

    4) Select the checkbox for the option ‘Prevent Windows From Being Automatically Arranged When Moved To The Edge Of The Screen‘.

    This way we can disable Aero Snap.

  • Windows 7 Tips – Vista Style Sidebar

    Add the Vista Style Sidebar Back to Windows 7


    INFORMATION:
    This article will show you the way to get the Vista style side bar on your Windows 7 PC.

     

    Copy Files from Vista

    Note: In this example we are using 32-bit versions of Vista and Windows 7. Make sure you are logged in with Administrator credentials.


    If you have a Vista machine running, we can copy the Windows Sidebar files over to the Windows 7 machine. On the Vista machine navigate to C:\Program Files and copy the Windows Sidebar folder and all of its contents over to a flash drive or network location.

    On the Windows 7 machine go to C:\Program Files and rename the Windows Sidebar folder to something like Windows Sidebar_old.

    Now copy the Vista Windows Sidebar folder into C:\Program Files.

    Now you will have both folders…Windows Sidebar and Windows Sidebar_old in your C:\Program Files folder.

    Right-click on the desktop and select Gadgets.

    The Original Vista Sidebar is back and will act as it did in Vista.

  • Hide Drives – Windows 7 Tips



    If you’ve got drives in My Computer that you never access, such as a USB Flash drive that you are using solely for ReadyBoost, a floppy drive, or a network drive only used for a particular piece of software, then you might want to simply hide the drive from your computer.



    This tip will only hide the drive from being displayed, applications and the command prompt will still have access to it, and you can still manually browse to the folder if you type in the path.
    Now what’s that floppy drive doing there?

    Configure the Hidden Drives
    Open up regedit.exe by using the start menu search box, and then browse down to the following key.
        HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
    If the Explorer key does not exist, you can right-click on Policies, select New Key and name it Explorer.

    The NoDrives key most likely does not exist by default, so you’ll need to create it with right-click \ new 32-bit DWORD and name it NoDrives.
    This value is a 32 bit number, and the bits are arranged in reverse order with a value of 1 hiding that drive.
    Converting 100001 to decimal we end up with a decimal value of 33 or a hex value of 0×21, so if you double-click on the key in the registry editor, choose Decimal and then enter 33 into the value field.
    In order to see these changes, you’ll need to restart explorer.exe, which you can do easily from Task Manager or the longer way by just logging off and back on.

  • File Sharing – Windows Vista Tips


    INFORMATION:

    This article will show you how to share files in Windows Vista 


    1) At first, I would assume you already enabled File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks on your network adapter’s properties.


    2) Then, you also need to turn on the file sharing types that you need in Network and Sharing Center.
    Simple File Sharing – Turn on File sharing only.
    Password Protected File Sharing – Turn on File sharing and Password protected sharing.

    3) Now we are going to do advanced Vista file sharing! Locate the folder that you plan to share, right click that folder and click on Properties. In this case, I’m going to share folder Files.

    4) Folder properties window will appear, then click Advanced Sharing

    5) Advanced Sharing window will appear, tick Share this folder. You can also limit the number of simultaneous users to access this folder, rename this shared folder and add comments. Finally click Permissions.
    Note: Please note even you already did sharing on the folder before and it works, you would find out Share this folder is not ticked. It’s ok, don’t be confused, you only tick Share this folder if you need to use advanced file sharing features.

    6) Then, add the users that you want to share file with in Folder Permissions window. By default, the Everyone group has Read permissions. I also added user Nicola to have Read and Change permission. Click Apply at last.
    Note: Add Everyone or Guest if you enabled simple file sharing only.

    7) Back to Advanced Sharing window, click on the Caching button this time. Offline Settings window will appear, here is the place you can set whether the shared folders/files will be available offline. The default setting is Only the files and program that users specify will be available offline. Click OK at last.
    Note: Click on How do offline files work link to learn more about this offline feature.

    8) Back to the Advanced Sharing window, click Apply to make final change. As usual after the sharing, you will see 2 people appear at the bottom of your shared folder. You have completed doing advanced Vista file sharing.

    Note: If you check on Advanced Sharing window again, you can actually click Add to create new share condition with different name, description, allowed simultaneous users and permissions. After that, you will have different share profiles for you to select in different situations for this Vista file sharing.

    Note: Please right click that shared folder and click on Properties, then go to Sharing tab. Check the group or user names that are allowed to access this folder, and make sure the user/group that you allowed to access during sharing process is listed here as well, if not click Edit to add those missing user/group. Please note Everyone will allow everybody to access this folder.
    If the specific user/group you allowed during sharing process does not match the user/group listed here, the user will get prompt saying that you might not have permission to use this network resource when try to access this shared folder from other computer. Try and test some different settings, then you will know which one will work.

  • Enable Remote Desktop – Windows Vista Tips


    INFORMATION:

    This article will show you how to enable remote desktop on Windows Vista

    1) Go to Start, right click Computer and then click on Properties.

    2) The computer properties window will appear, then you click on Remote settings.
    Note: You can also open this window by going to Control Panel -> System.

    3) Go to Remote tab on the System properties window, then click on Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop (less secure) option. You can also click Select Users button to choose the users that can connect to this computer remotely. Finally, click Apply and OK button.

    Note: You can only choose that Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (more secure) option if the Remote Desktop client supports Network Level Authentication. If you want to check, just open the client and click on upper left corner icon to open the About window, you will then find out whether it’s supported.

    Note: By default the current user id that you used to enable this Remote Desktop will be allowed to connect remotely. In this case, Ivan already has access as my current logged on user id is Ivan. You can click Add… to add other users.

    Note: Also the Remote Desktop must be enabled as exception on Windows Firewall! If not the traffic will be dropped by this firewall.

    Note: Please also make sure Block all incoming connections check box is cleared! If it’s check, then no remote connection can be made from other computers. 


  • Monitor Shared Folders – Windows Vista Tips

    Quick Way to Monitor Shared Folders in Windows Vista

    1) Open command prompt (Start->All Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt), type fsmgmt.msc and press Enter button.

    2) The shared folders snap-in will appear. If you click Shares, it will list down all shared folders, folder path, number of client connections, etc.
    Note: You can also right click the folder to open or stop the folder sharing.

    3) If you click on Sessions, it lists down all users who are connected to this computer’s shared folders. From here, you will know some valuable connected user info, such as user ID, computer name, how many files are opened by user, since when the folder is accessed by user, idle time and whether the user logged on using Guest account.
    Note: You can also right click any user ID and click on Close Session option to disconnect this user.

    4) Proceed to click on Open Files, it will list down all files currently accessed by users and also the permission user owns on the opened files.
    Note: You can also right click any file and click on Close Open File option to close open file.


  • Disable IPv6 – Windows Vista Tips

    Simple Way to Disable IPv6 in Windows Vista

    1) Go to Start and right click on Network and then click Properties.


    2) Network and Sharing Center window will appear, after that click Manage network connections.

    3) Network Connections window will appears. Here you can right click on the network card that you wish to disable IPv6 and click Properties.

    4) In the Local Area Connection Properties window, untick Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) and click OK.
    Note: This method disables IPv6 on your LAN interfaces and connections, but does not disable IPv6 on tunnel interfaces or the IPv6 loopback interface. You need to make change in Windows registry in order to disable the IPv6 on tunnel interface. You can stop here if don’t feel like working with Windows registry. If not, proceed with Step 5.

    5) Type regedit in command prompt in order to launch registry editor.

    6) Registry editor will appear, proceed to locate following registry item:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\DisabledComponents
    Note: If the DisabledComponents item is unavailable, you must create it:
    a) In the Edit menu, go to New, and then click DWORD (32-bit) Value.

    b) Type DisabledComponents, and then press ENTER.

    7) Double-click DisabledComponents, set the value as 0xffffffff (hexadecimal value) (just type ffffffff) to disable IPv6 on LAN interfaces, connections, and tunnel interfaces except the IPv6 loopback interface, finally click OK.

    8) You must restart the computer for this registry value to take effect.