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  • Libraries – Windows 7 Tips

    Manage Files and Documents Easily with Libraries in Windows 7
    In previous versions of Windows it can be a tedious task managing music, photos, documents and other files that are scattered in different directories on your hard drive.  Today we take a look at the new Libraries feature in Windows 7 that allows you to organize folders from multiple locations in one spot.

     

    Using Libraries
    To access your Libraries click on Start then your user name to open up your personal folder.
    Now in the left pane click on Libraries to view the four default Libraries which are Music, Pictures, Videos, and Documents.
    Libraries show files that are stored in different locations on your computer as in this example of a Music Library.
    You don’t have to limit yourself to just the four default Libraries by creating your own.  When you click on Libraries in the left pane click on the New Libraries button.
    A new Library comes up just like a new folder where you can label it.
    When you go into your new Library you are prompted to add new folders and files to it.
    If you want to add new folder locations to any of the Libraries just click on the hyperlink that shows the current number of locations.
    You can then click the Add button to include other locations on the computer.
    Right-click on the Library icon and select Properties and you can include a folder from here.
    Also, while your navigating through explorer you can Right-click a folder and include it in a library.
    This might seem like a subtle change to the user interface but it’s effective and makes navigating files and folders much easier.
    Libraries will allow you to share your folders and files with your Homegroup network easier as well.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Change Show Desktop Icon
    Now we have our icon on the Taskbar and you can move it wherever is convenient to you, and clicking on it will indeed show your desktop. However, you might want to change the icon to something more appealing.

    • One option is to open the Show Desktop icon Properties again and select the Change Icon button.
    • When we did this we got the following message Click OK and it will open up to %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll.
    Where you can go through the list of icons included by default.
    • You might have to do a reboot for the icon to show up correctly, and here is our final result where we have it in the Quick Launch bar and the Taskbar. Of course the regular Show Desktop in the lower right corner as well.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Move the Show Desktop Icon to Taskbar in Windows 7

    Pin Show Desktop Icon to the Taskbar
    You might not care to get the Quick Launch icon back in Windows 7, but would like to pin the icon to the Taskbar where you want it. Unfortunately the process isn’t as easy as a simple drag and drop.

    • Right-click the Desktop and select Text Document.
    • Now name it Show Desktop.exe and click Yes when the warning message comes up.
    Note: You will need to have file extensions viewable in order for this to work.
    • Right-click on the dummy exe file we just made and select Pin to Taskbar.
    • Now create your own Show Desktop icon by typing or pasting the following code into Notepad.
        [Shell]
        Command=2
        IconFile=explorer.exe,3
        [Taskbar]
        Command=ToggleDesktop
    When you save it, make sure to select All Files in Notepad.
    • Then save it as Show Desktop.scf and place it in the following folder.
        C:\Users\computername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar
    Note: If you don’t see the folders like AppData make sure you have Show hidden files, folders, and drives selected in Folder Options.
    • Next right-click on the Show Desktop.exe icon we pinned to the Taskbar, then right-click Show Desktop and select Properties.
     
    • Enter the following into the Target field under the Shortcut tab.
    C:\Users\computername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\Show Desktop.scf
    Note: In the path change “computername” to the actual name of your computer for both steps.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Move the Show Desktop Icon to Quick Launch in Windows 7
    If you aren’t a fan of scrolling your pointer over to the lower right corner of your monitor to Show the Desktop, we have a cool tweak that will let you create a Show Desktop icon in the Quick Launch.

    If you want to easily get access to the Desktop in Windows 7 you’ve undoubtedly noticed they moved it to the lower right corner. This can be annoying if you have a dual monitors, or even a large monitor that is 22” or higher.
    There are a few ways you can go about it and we’ll take a look at them and you can choose which method works best for you.
    First let’s look at how to put it back where it used to be in earlier versions of Windows. One of the easiest ways is to Add the Quick Launch Bar to the Windows 7 Taskbar.
    After restoring the Quick Launch Bar, you should see the Show Desktop icon. Then just move the icon to where you want it in the Quick Launch bar. For example, here we moved it along with the Switch Between Windows icon next to the IE icon.

  • CityVille Beginner’s Guide

    CityVille Tips & Tricks: Building Houses
    There are tips on how to make the most of your building construction at City Ville. To start with,
    Among the first building types that you may encounter when learning to play CityVille is communal housing. This is important to provide protection to your people, and the type of residential housing that you choose will affect your population and fame ratings. Many more types will become available while you look towards CityVille mastery, empowering you to expand your empire and create a wider and wealthier population. The better and more expansive a house is, the higher the rent repayments and chance to earn more CityVille coins.

    Here are some things to think about:
    1. When building, click on them to be completed. If you won’t, you wouldn’t be able to finish your building, at the same time;

    2. Houses should be aligned, so as to enable you to build roads.

    3. Population must also increase that is why you should increase building houses as well.

    You must build houses in order to increase the population of your city effectively. Every CityVille house will support a specific number of citizens and generates income. In order to build your income quickly, choose the houses that you build according to the time that you expect to be playing the game.

    BUILDING
    POPULATION
    COST
    GRID SIZE
    HARVEST TIME
    (minutes)
    BASE COIN
    Apartment Complex
    90
    4500
    16
    1440
    200
    Atrium Lofts
    170
    750000
    25
    1440
    170
    Colonial Chalet
    120
    10000
    9
    480
    158
    Country Home
    30
    600
    16
    5
    10
    Cozy Cottage
    10
    200
    9
    60
    50
    Family Townhouse
    20
    400
    9
    240
    100
    Glass Condos
    160
    600000
    16
    480
    165
    Hotel Suites
    130
    12500
    18
    2940
    231
    Lake House
    90
    495
    16
    120
    200
    Loft Apartments
    50
    1000
    16
    2940
    220
    Luxury Apartments
    200
    0
    9
    1440
    105
    Modern Chateau
    60
    1500
    16
    1440
    200
    Newlywed House
    100
    0
    9
    5
    12
    Ranch House
    100
    6000
    16
    1080
    189
    Skyscraper Condos
    150
    500000
    16
    240
    105
    Sprawling Mansions
    140
    15000
    18
    1080
    195
    Stylish Contemporary
    80
    3500
    9
    4380
    240
    Suburban House
    40
    800
    16
    1080
    180
    Terraced Brownstone
    70
    2500
    9
    480
    150
    Upscale Condo
    110
    8000
    16
    60
    52

     

      

  • CityVille Beginner’s Guide

    CityVille Guide – Coins and Cash
    In CityVille, you are going to use coins to purchase buildings, seeds or decorations. Without coins the you won’t be able to advance in the game and to develop his city. The CityVille coins can be acquired in many ways starting with collecting the rents paid by citizens and ending with selling the goods to neighbors. Various strategies can be used to increase the number of coins in CityVille. 

     

    CityVille is a casual video game developed by Zynga Game Network Inc. The title is similar to Frontierville, meaning that players will experience the same mix of elements such as farming and building various structures. In addition to this, in CityVille each action costs energy points, just like in Frontierville. One of the differences between these games is that in CityVille the action takes place in modern-times while inFrontierville the action is set in the past.
    Get Free Coins by Clicking Fast:
    The coins, boxes, energy bolts, collectibles and experience stars that pop out of clickable things go into your inventory even if you don’t click on them, but click them if you can. You get extra coins if the bonus meter fills up. Your bonus goes up every time you level up or get more reputation hearts. Here are the free coin click bonuses it cycles through:
    •         Excellent!
    •         Amazing!
    •         Outstanding!
    •         Holy Smokes!
    •         Extreme!
    •         OMGeezers!
    •         Unstoppable!
    •         Insane!
    •         Masterful!
    Bonus Free Coins:
              Decorations and franchise headquarters are called bonus items because they make your CityVille buildings pay you more free coins! All the buildings within the blue square around each bonus item pay out more coins. The game tells you in blue what percent more coins each building will pay out. Higher blue numbers get you more free coins! Bonuses add together.
    When you are first starting out, place bonus items where their blue squares touch as many of your businesses as possible. Don’t worry if you don’t like where you place them. Unlike some other video games, you can move anything in CityVille. Click on the arrow above the “Build” button and select the “Move” cursor.
    Read more about bonus items and bonus zones that can make your stores pay you 2000 coins and more here. Making stores pay out more coins and even diamonds the most fun part of the game for many players.
    Goals:
    You get experience, energy, coins and even free building icons for completing goals, so don’t just ignore the goal icons when they pop up on the left side of your game screen. Goals are also how you become mayor in CityVille.
    Use Franchise System:
    The franchise system generates free coins for you! It gives you the franchise headquarters bonus items, too. You can have up to 20 of your neighbors’ businesses in your city. Place an empty business lot — next to bonus items and on a road or sidewalk, of course. Click “Okay” and let the game post a franchise request to all your CityVille friends. Be a little picky in what you will accept, because you only get to have 20, and only if you have 60 neighbors or more. Read more about the CityVille franchise system here.
    Buying CityVille Cash:
    You can buy CityVille cash on the “Add coins and cash” tab. It costs a minimum of $2.13 per 15 game dollars. You can get City cash on the “Earn city cash” tab, but there you have to buy things from participating merchants. You can buy coins there, too, but coins are pretty easy to get so don’t waste your money. You can do everything in this video game without City cash. Facebook games are notorious for trying to get you to spend real money. Resist the urge!
    Alternately, you can earn City Cash in CityVille by completing offers. At the moment, there are seven offers that you can complete in order to earn city cash, like completing Amazon Tasks, taking surveys or paying with your Cell Phone. You can find all the offers under the Earn City Cash tab in-game.
    But what about FREE City Cash for you? You can get some Free City Cash in a few ways, but don’t expect to get too rich with that! Here is how to get City Cash for Free in CityVille:
    •      Keep an eye on the offers mentioned above. You might find some that give you free city cash
    •  
    •     Level up! Each time you level up, you get 1 City Cash in return!
    •  
    •     Game Cards. Make sure somebody loves you and tell them you’d like a Zynga game card. If they buy it and send it to you, you can redeem the City Cash from it!
    And these should be the ways to get more CityCash in Zynga’s CityVille.
    Note: However, If you must get ahead quickly, spend real money through Zynga’s links in their Facebook games rather than using cheat scripts. These often contain malware that infects your computer’s resources.
    CityVille Beginner’s Guide
    CityVille Guide – Experience (XP)
    CityVille Guide – Coins and Cash

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Prevent Changing Wallpaper Using a Registry Hack
    Sometimes you might not want users to have the ability to change Wallpaper on Windows 7 workstations. Today we look at how to prevent them from changing.

    Using a Registry Editor
    You can also make a couple Registry changes to prevent users from changing the Wallpaper which will work on Home versions of Windows 7.
    Note: Before making any Registry changes make sure you back it up first.
    1. Open the Registry by typing regedit into the Search box in the Start menu and hit Enter.
    2. First we’ll start with the Wallpaper. Navigate to 
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System 
    and create a new String Value and name it Wallpaper.
    3. Then modify the Value data to point to the location of the Wallpaper you want it to always be. Where in this example it’s our main wallpaper on our local drive, then click OK.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Prevent Changing the Wallpaper in Windows 7
    Sometimes you might not want users to have the ability to change Wallpaper on Windows 7 workstations. Today we look at how to prevent them from changing.

    Prevent Changing Wallpaper Using Group Policy Editor
    Note: This method uses Group Policy which is not available in Home versions on Windows 7.
    1. Open the Start Menu and enter gpedit.msc into the Search box and hit Enter.
    2. When Local Group Policy Editor opens, navigate to 
    User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Control Panel \ Personalization. 
    Then in the right column double-click on Prevent changing desktop background.
    3. Now check the radio button next to Enabled, then click OK.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Disable Search History Display in Windows 7
    The new search feature in Windows 7 has been enhanced greatly in this version of Windows, and by default it saves recent searches. If you’re annoyed by this and want to turn it off, we will show you how using Group Policy Editor.

    Note: This method uses Group Policy Editor which is not available in Home versions of Windows 7
    Notice that when you go to the search box and start entering in something, the last three searches you’ve done appear. It can get old looking at mistyped words or seeing a search term that is old.
    To turn that feature off we need to go into Local Group Policy Editor. Type gpedit.msc into the start search box and hit Enter.
     
    Navigate to User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Explorer then double click on “Turn off display of recent search entries in the Windows Explorer search box”.
    Set it to Enabled then hit Apply then OK and close out of Group Policy Editor.
    Now when you start searching for something there is no longer the search history popping up to annoy you.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Remove Programs from the Open With Menu in Explorer


    Would you like to clean up the Open with menu in Windows Explorer?  Here’s how you can remove program entries you don’t want in this menu on any version of Windows.
    Have you ever accidentally opened an mp3 with Notepad, or a zip file with Word?  If so, you’re also likely irritated that these programs now show up in the Open with menu in Windows Explorer every time you select one of those files.  Whenever you open a file type with a particular program, Windows will add an entry for it to the Open with menu.  Usually this is helpful, but it can also clutter up the menu with wrong entries.

    On our computer, we have tried to open a PDF file with Word and Notepad, neither which can actually view the PDF itself.  Let’s remove these entries.  To do this, we need to remove the registry entries for these programs.  Enter regedit in your Start menu search or in the Run command to open the Registry editor.

    Backup your registry first just in case, so you can roll-back any changes you make if you accidentally delete the wrong value.

    Now, browse to the following key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \ Explorer \FileExts\
    Here you’ll see a list of all the file extensions that are registered on your computer.

    Browse to the file extension you wish to edit, click the white triangle beside it to see the subfolders, and select OpenWithList.  In our test, we want to change the programs associated with PDF files, so we select the OpenWithList folder under .pdf.

    Notice the names of the programs under the Data column on the right.  Right-click the value for the program you don’t want to see in the Open With menu and select Delete.

    Click Yes at the prompt to confirm that you want to delete this value.

    Repeat these steps with all the programs you want to remove from this file type’s Open with menu.  You can go ahead and remove entries from other file types as well if you wish.
    Once you’ve removed the entries you didn’t want to see, check out the Open with menu in Explorer again.  Now it will be much more streamlined and will only show the programs you want to see.