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  • 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 But in Windows 7 this thing has been replaced by an Icon so you can‟t get any text over there.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.

    <!–[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]–>It would restore the Taskbar buttons like they were used to be in Vista.

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.