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  • User Specific Wireless Network

    How to Enable User-Specific Wireless Networks in Windows 7?
    Wireless network settings in Windows 7 are global across all users, but there’s a little-known option that lets you switch them to per-user, so each user has access to only the networks they are allowed to connect to. Here’s how it all works.
    How is this useful? Maybe you want to prevent a particular user from accessing the internet—if you don’t give them the wireless password, they won’t be able to get online. This could be very useful if you’ve got mini-people playing games on the family PC, but you don’t want them getting online.
    Setting Up Per-User Wireless Networks
    The first thing you’ll need to do is head to Network and Sharing Center, which can be access through the tray icon in the screen shot above. Once you’re there, click on Manage Wireless Networks.
    Once there, click on the Profile types button.
    And now you can choose the “Use all-user and per-user profiles” option.
    Note: the warning message indicates that if you use the Switch Users function to keep both users logged in at the same time, it’s going to possibly cut off the other user. Since that’s what we wanted in the first place, just click the Save button.
    At this point, your system can now use per-user profiles—but any current profiles are still set to all-user. Keep reading.
    Creating a User-Specific Wireless Network Connection
    The simplest way to either create a new user-specific wireless connection would be to just connect to a network—the default is per user now. If you want to convert the current one, you’ll need to first remove it. Just select it in the list on the Manage Wireless Networks screen, and then click the Remove button.
    Now you can use the system tray wireless icon to pick a network, connect to it, and then enter the password.
    If you right-click on the entry in the list and choose Properties, you’ll see that the “Network availability” option is now set to “Me only”. Success!
    The same thing will happen for any network you connect to.

  • Assign Keyboard Shortcuts for Programs

    How to Assign Keyboard Shortcuts for Programs?
    Application can be assigned a shortcut key in Windows 7. The application would launch when the combo of keys is pressed which you entered as the Shortcut Key for that application.
    To create Shortcut key for any application in Windows 7
    1. Right-click the program icon and select Properties.
    2. Select the Shortcut tab
    3. Click in Shortcut key textbox
    4. Enter the keyboard shortcut for that program.
    5. Press OK to exit.
    6. Use the Keyboard shortcut combo to launch the application.

  • Change Startup Programs in Windows 7

    When Windows starts up, it automatically loads a number of programs, many of which you may not need. As you install more and more programs, this list can continue to grow.

    The following guide can help you improve your computer’s startup times by decreasing the number of startup programs. This will be done be disabling certain programs from running as windows starts up.

    Instructions

    Add a Link to the Startup Folder

    1. Click the Windows “Start” button and select “All Programs.” Right-click the “Startup” folder in the menu and select “Open All Users.” This option opens the folder for all users on the computer. Choose “Explore” to open the folder for the currently logged-in user only.
       
    2. Right-click the folder or file you want started when the computer boots. Select “Copy” from the menu.
       
    3. Right-click any white space in the “Startup” folder you opened in Step 1. Select “Paste” from the menu list. The program will now open the next time you start the computer.
    Change Current Startup Programs
    1. Click the Windows “Start” button and type “msconfig” in the search text box. This opens the System Configuration console.
       
    2. Click the “Startup” tab. This gives you a view of all the programs installed as startup options on your computer.
       
    3. Check boxes of the applications you want to start when you boot the computer. For programs you no longer want to start, clear the check box.
       
    4. Click “Apply” and close the configuration window. A popup window will ask if you want to reboot the computer. Click “Restart” to reboot the computer and save the changes.

  • How to Change the Default Fonts in Windows 7

    This will show you how to change most or all of the default fonts in Windows 7 for Active Title Bar, Icon, Inactive Title Bar, Menu, Message Box, Palette Title, Selected Items, ToolTip, and various Dialog Box text and buttons.
    Note: Changing a Windows 7 font doesn’t change your program fonts.
    Instructions:
    • Right click on a empty space on the desktop and click on Personalize.
    • Click on the Window Color link at the bottom of the window.
    • Click on the Advanced appearance settings link.
    • Select a Item that you want to change the font for, not all of these items will have a font for them.
    • To Change the Item Font – Click on the Font drop down menu and select a font.
    • To Change the Item Font Size – Click on the Size drop down menu and select a number for the size. The higher the number, the larger the size.

    • To Change the Item Font Color – Click on the Color drop down menu and select a color.
    • To Have the Item Font in Bold – Click the B button to highlight it. If it is not highlighted, then the font will not be in bold.
    • To Have the Item Font in Italic – Click on the I button to highlight it. If it is not highlighted, then the font will not be in italic.
    • Repeat the above steps until you have changed all of the fonts for the items that you wanted.
    • When done, click on OK.

  • Adding My Computer to Toolbar: Windows 7




                             In this article we are going to learn how to add MY computer location has new tool bar in Windows 7. 

    you like to have the quickest access possible to folders on my desktop, which usually means putting something onto the taskbar if possible. You can add the Computer menu as a folder on the taskbar for the easiest access to your drives. You could also use this tip for any folder you want.

    To add a folder to the taskbar, just right-click on the taskbar and choose the Toolbars menu, and then click on New Toolbar.

    Just find the folder that you want… in this instance we’ll select the Computer icon and then click on Select Folder.

    Now you can see the Computer folder right there on the taskbar. If you click the little arrows it will pop up and let you browse through all your drives.


    I always add the Desktop to the toolbar as well.


  • How to Add a Volume Device In Windows 7


    By default, Microsoft Windows 7 displays several icons in the lower right corner of the PC desktop (also called the “System Tray”), including the Volume Control icon. However — especially at first boot up of the Windows 7 operating system — you may find that one or all icons are missing from the “System Tray.” Use the Registry Editor utility in Windows 7 to quickly resolve issue and enable the Volume device icon to appear in the “System Tray.”
    1). Log in to the Windows 7 computer, using the credentials of an Administrator account on the computer. Click the “Start” button, then click “Search” and enter “regedit” in the “Search” box and press the “Enter” key.
    2). Navigate to the “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify” directory in the “Registry Editor” window that appears. Click the “IconStreams” item once to highlight it and then click the “Edit” menu at the top of the “Registry Editor” window. Click “Delete” in the menu that appears and click “Yes” to confirm deletion.
    3). Click the “PastIconsStream” item once to highlight the item and then click the “”Edit” menu at the top of the “Registry Editor” window, click “Delete” in the menu that appears and click “Yes” to confirm and delete the item. Click the red “X” at the top right of the “Registry Editor” window to close the window.
    4). Right-click the Task Bar and click “Task Manager” in the menu that appears. Click the “Processes” tab in the “Task Manager” window that appears. Find the “explorer.exe” process in the list of processes and click on it once and then click the “End Process” button. Click “End Process” again to shut down the “explorer.exe” process. Click “File” in the “Task Manager” window and click “Run” in the menu that appears. Type “explorer” in the “Run” box and press the “Enter” key. Click the “File” menu in the “Task Manager” window and then click “Exit Task Manager.”
    5). Click the “Start” button on the PC desktop and click the “Search” box and type “Customize icons” in the “Search” box and tap the “Enter” key. Click the “Customize icons on the task bar” item that appears and click “Turn system icons on or off” and then set the “Volume” to “On.” Click the “OK” button and then click “OK” to save the settings.

  • Changing Library icon: Windows 7



                 In this article we are going to learn how to change your windows 7 library icons with easiest way possible. This article gives you steps to change library icons and these steps are easy and simple to perform on our own.


    Have you ever wanted to swap out the Windows default icons with something else? The new Windows 7 library icons can be changed with a hack to a text file, but there’s an easier way. We’ll explain both.
    Not sure what we’re talking about? Open up Windows Explorer, and check out the Libraries.

    For today’s lesson, we’ll teach you how to change those icons with something else. (It’ll also work for your own custom Libraries).
    Change Library Icons the Easy Way
    To change the icons out the easy way, we’ll use a tiny tool called Library Icon Changer from a user over at deviantART. Thanks to Pratik for pointing us towards this tool!
    Once you’ve opened up the tool, you’ll be presented with list of icons and libraries… just click on the Library on the right-hand side, and then choose the icon on the left, and click “Select Icon from dll”. You can also use the Select new Icon from file instead, if you don’t want to use a default Windows icon.

    Note that if you want to restore the icon to default, you have to click on the Library first on the right-hand side, and then click the Restore default icon button.
    Another note is that if you want to change out the DLL, you’ll need to select it, and then hit the Enter key.

    Once you’ve swapped out your icon, it usually shows up right away, or you can Refresh with F5 (though logging off or restarting explorer.exe might be required).


    Change Libraries the Manual Way
    Don’t feel like messing with a piece of software from some person somewhere? You can make these changes manually with nothing more than Notepad. Just paste the following into the start menu search box, or Windows Explorer location bar:
        ” %appdata%\microsoft\windows\libraries “
    Then drag one of the icons from Windows Explorer over to a Notepad window to open up the file.

    Inside the file, you’ll see an iconReference line, or if you don’t see it, you’ll want to add one like so:
        C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,301
    The data in the middle is the path, either to the icon (.ico) file, or if you are referencing a DLL file, you’ll need to add the comma and number position of the icon in the file.

    And now you’ve learned how to swap out the icons. Awesome, eh? Alright, well it’s not that awesome. But still fun geeky information to have.

  • Add Disk CleanUp to Right Click on a Drive

    Disk Clean up is a utility that helps us in cleaning unwanted items on a disk or hard drive volume.  Now we shall see how to add this utility to the right click menu when we right on a particular drive in windows 7.


    We need to edit the registry to enable this. The steps for editing the registry and getting the Disk Clean up utility in the right click menu for disk partitions are as follows:
    Open the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\Shell

    Create a key under cmd by right clicking on it and click on New>key and name it as Diskcleanup
    Right click on that and again create a key and name it as command

    Change the data value on the right side to cleanmgr.exe /d %1
    Now you can see the clean up utility in the right click menu for every drive. 


  • Show menus by Default in IE9

    IE9 is an application that requires windows 7 as the operating system requirements. So it can be installed only on windows 7. So now we are going to see how do we get the menus in IE9 Beta. We need to create a registry key to enable the menus on IE9 Beta by default.

    Steps for creating a registry key that gives menus in IE9 by default:

    1) Open the registry editor by typing the command regedit in the run command.

    2) Navigate to the folder HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft

    3) Create a key under Microsoft key and name it as Internet Explorer.

    4) Create another registry key under Internet explorer with a name Main

     

    5) Now right click on the empty space on the right and create a DWORD value with a name Always Show Context Menus and enter the data value as 1. 

      

    When you first open it you won’t see the Menu Bar, so hit Alt or Alt+T again and it will come up and will always be there from now on anytime you launch IE 9.

  • Disabling system tray: Windows 7

                 In this article we are going to see how to disable the system tray completely  If you are the type of person that never uses any applications in the system tray, you might be interested in this registry tweak to turn it off entirely. I can’t imagine using my own system this way, but we’re all about providing information.


    Note: that you could also use this in reverse… if your system tray is disabled and you don’t know why, you should check this registry key.

    You can even remove the clock if you’d like, by right-clicking on the taskbar and choosing Properties. It’s on the Notification Area tab.
    Manual Registry tweak:
    Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then navigate down to the following key (Create if it doesn’t exist):
        “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer”

    Create a new 32-bit DWORD value in the right hand pane with these values:
        * Name: NoTrayItemsDisplay
        * Value: 1
    You will have to logoff and back on for this to take effect. To remove the hack, just delete the key, or change the value to 0.
    Note that disabling the system tray doesn’t actually prevent system tray apps from running, it just hides them. You should still disable any applications that aren’t needed.
    Update: Note that the same registry key may exist in more than one location, so if you are trying to reverse this hack, you should search the registry for NoTrayItemsDisplay.
    Note that this tip should work in all versions of Windows like windows XP and Windows 7 or vista.