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  • Windows 7 Tips

    How to Remove “Folder Opens in New Window” Problem?

    There is an issue that whenever click any drive in windows is clicked it opens it in new window and then each every single folder opens in new window. In such cases following actions can be taken to solve the problem:
    1. Reset the folder options view
    Organize > Folder & search Options > General > Browse Folders > Select “Open each folder in same windows”
    2. Organize > Folder & search Options > View > uncheck Launch folder windows in a new process.
    3. Open Registry editor by typing “regedit” in Run dialog box and hit enter. Navigate to the key “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell”. On the right hand side pane there is a value named “Default” double-click on this value & Set the value to “none“. Once you make this change, your folders should instantly be back to normal. You must start explorer (Restart/Logoff) for changes to take effect.

    4. Get your Antivirus updated and thoroughly scan your computer as Virus may create an Autorun.inf file in each folder which may cause this problem as well.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    How a USB drive can be disabled on a particular computer?

    To disable the access to USB port, in windows XP, Vista and Windows 7:
    1. Click Start, and then click Run. 
    2. Type regedit, and then click OK. (Or simply open registry) 
    3. Navigate to the following registry key: 
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor 4. In the right pane, double-click Start. 
    5. In the Value data box, change its value to 4, which was 3 and then click OK.
    To re-enable a disabled port:
    1. Click Start, and then click Run. 
    2. Type regedit, and then click OK. (Or simply open registry) 
    3. Navigate to the following registry key: 
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor
    4. In the right pane, double-click Start.
    5. In the Value data box, change its value to 3, which you changed to 4 to disable the USB drive and then click OK.
    6. Quit Registry Editor.

    Now whenever a user will attach a USB storage device which is already installed in system, Windows will not detect it and it will not be shown in My Computer. However, disabling USB ports totally also disables the ability for Windows to use USB based keyboard, mouse, webcam, printer, scanner and etc., which are common devices for a computer nowadays and essential ones as well.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    How to Create Themes in Windows 7?

    In Windows 7 it is possible to personalize and customize windows 7 with self-made custom themes. Windows 7 has several default themes and you can create your own Windows 7 themes using the steps below. Also there has been launch of Several Official Themes from Microsoft time to time.
    A theme pack contains following things:
    • Desktop Wallpaper
    • Screen saver
    • Sounds
    • Slide shows
    • Color of the theme
    • Mouse Pointers
    • Desktop icons

    And good thing about Windows 7 is you can customize all of these without pain.

    1. Right Click on your Desktop and Select Personalize from Context Menu
    2. Now click on desktop background to set background wallpaper of Theme.
    3. Click Browse to locate folder of wallpapers
    4. Select check images/wallpapers for slideshow feature in your theme & save changes.
    5. Set Windows color to change color of windows, background, and cursor for theme.
    6. Click on sound to change system sound default
    7. Click on Screen Saver to set screen saver for the Theme.
    8. After setting all the components of the Theme Pack click on save theme option in your personalization window.
    9. Enter theme name and select theme pack as save type

    10. Double Click on the theme pack to install it. 

  • Windows 7 Tips

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    Get Vista like Taskbar in Windows 7


    <!–[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]–>If you are new to windows 7 and not able to go along with it smoothly then here is an option that you can follow to get the Taskbar icons as the same we had in Vista. In Vista whenever we minimized an application (folder, word etc.) it is accessed by a tab @ taskbar which describes about process and has an icon as well. But in Windows 7 this thing has been replaced by an Icon so you can‟t get any text over there. 
    To get back the similar feel in Windows 7 do the following:
    • Navigate to taskbar & Right Click it.
    • Open taskbar properties.
    • Go to option taskbar Buttons.
    • Here you have 3 options: hide labels, combine and never combine
    • Choose the third one.

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    This is how taskbar would look like now.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Font Issue : Make easier to Read Screen Text
    A lot of Windows 7 users are facing problems in the display provided in OS, it includes fuzzy Fonts in Windows 7 that makes the text unreadable most of the time.
    However it can be adjusted according to a user‟s need in Windows 7 using Control Panel.
    Steps to adjust Font/Graphics in Windows 7:
    1. Navigate to Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Display
    2. Select the option on Left hand side pane Adjust Clear Type Text
    3. It will open ClearType text tuner which would help to improve the readability of text on LCD’s.
    4. After checking if your monitor is set to its native resolution it would provide 4 screens where you have to select a sample of text amongst the rest which you feels best.
    5. Check finish to complete the procedure to improve readability of fonts and to make their appearance sharper and clearer.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Find Your Computer Uptime
    A trick for all geeks who would like to know how long since they haven‘t shut down their computer.

    1. Go to Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc brings without UAC popup) 
    2. Go to Performance tab.
    3. In the system Information you can check out the uptime in the format Day : Hour : Minute : Second

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Find Out How Healthy Your Battery is on Your Laptop
    Windows 7 has a feature through which we can find out exactly how much battery you are actually getting from your Laptop battery, i.e. its efficiency, maximum charge potential.

    Its a well-known fact that as the age of lithium battery increases its charging capacity decreases and it won‟t charge to its full potential as when it‟s new. We can find out exactly how much the battery of laptop is giving now. We can use the powercfg -energy to find out how health your battery is.
    1. Open elevated command prompt by typing “cmd” in your start menu & opening it with administrator privileges.
    2. Type “powercfg –energy” into the command prompt & press Enter.
    3. The command enables tracing for 60 seconds & would collect all the data after observing the system behavior.
    4. After analysis it would generate a report.
    5. The energy report is generated in HTML format in the directory shown in the command prompt.
    Cmd Prompt Address\energy-report.html by default.
    6. In the HTML file, scroll to the end till you get information like this:
    This shows the battery ID, Manufacturer name, Chemistry, Design capacity and most importantly the last full charge.

    So as above screenshot Dell Studio 15 battery has design capacity of 5200 and now its giving max full charge of 3565 that counts its efficiency to around 70% it has degraded around 30% in 6 months

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Display a Message at Start Up

    At the time of Windows boot up a popup message can be added which contains any message you wish to display. In many organizations there a display of a message to display instructions or policies of Organization etc. in Windows, whenever you boot it.

    Here is how to do it:
     
    • Open Registry Editor (Go to Start Run type Regedit & press enter)
    • Navigate to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
    • In the Right Side pane select & open LegalNoticeCaption and enter a value that you want to see in the Menu Bar.
    • Next to it open LegalNoticeText and insert the message you want to display each time Windows boots.
    • Close Registry & Restart for changes to take effect.
    Setting up Menu bar text using LegalNoticeCaption key:
    Setting up Message to Display after computer Boots up using LegalNoticeText key:

    This trick works with Windows 7 and earlier Versions of Windows as well.

  • Desktop Wallpaper Slideshow

    Desktop Wallpaper Slideshow: Shuffle Desktop background
    Windows 7 has a new feature which can display all wallpapers in a desktop Slideshow. Earlier there were few software that can display a slideshow of all your Wallpapers (Webshots being one of the most popular). 

    To setup a desktop slideshow
    1. Right-click at the desktop
    2. Select Personalize > Desktop Background
    Here you can browse the Picture location to select a folder to choose images for desktop slideshow.
    3. Select and click as many images from the folder you want for desktop slideshow.
    4. Duration of slideshow can be chosen (anything from daily to once every 10 seconds), also order of appearance can be selected as sequential or shuffle.

    5. Click Save Changes and enjoy the Slideshow.

  • Manually Creating Wireless Network

    Manually Creating a Per-User or Global Wireless Network

    1. If you use the Add button in the Manage Wireless Networks screen, you can manually choose between per-user or global, which could be useful since the default is now per-user.



    2. Click the option that says Manually create a network profile.
    3. And now you’re at the screen where you can manually fill out all the details, and you can also choose to create it per-user, or for everybody.