Windows 7 Tips And Tricks

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Quick Launch is missing:



Right-click the taskbar, choose Toolbars / New Toolbar.

In the folder selection dialog, enter the following string and hit OK:

%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

Turn off the lock the taskbar setting, and right-click on the divider.

Make sure that Show text and Show title are disabled and the view is set to small icons.

Use the dividers to rearrange the toolbar ordering to choice, and then lock the taskbar again.

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Vista looking Task Bar:



Right-click on the taskbar and choose the properties dialog.

Select the small icons checkbox and under the taskbar buttons setting,

Choose combine when taskbar is full.

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Windows 7 install from USB pen drive:



Take a 4GB USB 2.0 thumbdrive, reformat it as FAT32,

And simply copy the contents of the Windows 7 Beta ISO image to the memory stick using,

xcopy e:\ f:\ /e /f (where e: was the DVD drive and f: was the removable drive location).

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Add-ons:



Add-ons can cause slow loading pages.

Open IE8/Tools/Manage Add-ons/scroll right in the list view to see,

Which add-on is taking the most time to load.

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ImgBurn



*Update* Windows 7 burns ISO images natively so this tool is mainly used for creating ISO images.
Great CD/DVD burning and ISO creation utility.


Here Is Link To Download.

http://www.imgburn.com/

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Xvid Codec:



*Update* Windows Media Player 12 (found in the Windows 7 beta) natively supports Xvid,

Divx and MP4 codecs however if (like me) you have a couple of videos in your collection,

That don't play correctly try installing the Xvid codec.

For decoding Xvid, Divx and MP4 video files in Windows Media Player


http://www.xvid.org/

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AC3 Filter:



*Update* As above - you may not need this codec but if you find you're not getting any sound,

When plating back a video file it might an AC3/DTS issue.

Audio filter that enables Windows Media Player to playback movies with AC3 and DTS audio tracks.


http://ac3filter.net/wiki/Projects/ac3filter

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Easy CD-DA Extractor 30 Day Free Trial (US$37)




*Update* I primarily use Easy CD-DA Extractor for converting from one file format to the other,

e. lossless to MP3 and for the odd CD that WMP12 is unable to rip for some peoples.

"The Swiss Army Knife of Digital Audio" pretty much sums up Easy CD-DA Extractor.

One still buy physical CD's from real music stores, how crazy is that!

Easy CD-DA Extractor allows one to back-up my discs,

And convert to MP3 for storage on my Windows Home Server.


http://www.poikosoft.com/

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Paint.NET



*Update* The new Paint application in Windows 7 is a great update,

But if you need to work with some basic layers or some more advanced features then Paint.NET is a great tool.

Simple yet powerful free Photoshop alternative.

Not quite as comprehensive as GIMP but does the basics and does them well.


http://www.getpaint.net/

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Reverting back to Vista:



If you used the upgrade to Windows 7 then you decide ewwwww I do not like that?

If you find issues trying to uninstall the upgrade or revert back to Vista and find it impossible.

Or you find it impossible to reinstall Vista.

Pop in the Vista disk and run a repair.

This will get you back up and running with Vista.

However you may find Vista a little buggy, if you do then one is afraid it is reinstall Vista.

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Shake Windows off your Desktop:



To clear the desktop:

Left click and hold on the Title Bar of the window you only want to show on the desktop.

Shake the window a bit by quickly dragging it left and right.

When the desktop clears, drop.

To restore the desktop:

Left click and hold on the Title Bar of the same window.

Shake the window a bit by quickly dragging it left and right.

When the minimized windows return to the desktop, drop (release the left click) the window.

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To open command prompt:



Just hold down the Shift Key and right click on the desktop.

And then you can choose Open Command Window Here from the menu.

But then again just right click on a folder and choose Open command prompt window here.

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Try This Trick:



When you right click on a file/icon you see the usal items in the list, Open/Send to and so on.

Hold down the Shift key while right-clicking on the icon, and then try the Send To menu.

Wow loads of things in the list of send to.

If you want any of those to show up normally without holding down the Shift key,

You can create shortcuts in the Send To folder.

Just type the following into the location bar: shell:sendto

And then drag shortcuts to your preferred folders into this folder.

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Uncover the jumplists:



One of the best new features of the new UI is the jumplists. Right click on a Taskbar icon.

And you’ll be presented with a series of shortcut options for that application – selecting a recently-played album in Windows Media Player,

For example:
You’ll also find jumplists sprouting from application listings on the Start menu.

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Unpin the default apps:



Microsoft has cheekily pinned Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and Windows Explorer to the Taskbar,

Ensuring they remain a constant presence on your desktop. If you want to get shot of them,

Right click on the app’s Taskbar icon and select Unpin This Program From Taskbar.

If you want to replace them with your favourite software, open the application of your choice,

Right click on its Taskbar icon and select Pin This Program To Taskbar.

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Silence User Account Controls:



To stop UAC interrupting your working day every two-and-a-half-minutes with another inane request,

Type UAC into the new Windows Start menu search bar, select the Change User Account Control Settings option,

And drag the slider right down to Never Notify. Just take a little extra care with your day-to-day computing,

As you’ll almost certainly be running without security software.

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Sort out the System Tray:



The System Tray now has an overspill area,

Allowing you to relegate attention-hungry applications to a hidden sin bin.

Click on the little up arrow on the left-hand side of the System Tray and click Customize to pick,

And choose which System Tray icons you want to see, and how much you want them to bother you with alerts.

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Boost the text size:



The huge screens and high resolutions of today’s flat panel monitors can make it difficult,

To read on-screen text, particularly if you use your PC as a Media Center on the main living room television.

Windows 7 allows you to boost the size of text on screen to up to 150% of its normal size,

To make it more readable.

Right click on the desktop, choose Screen Resolution,

And select the Make Text And Other Items Larger or Smaller.

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Stretch out on extra displays:



It’s now far easier to extend the Windows desktop on to secondary displays.

Simply press Windows +P and you’ll be presented with options to extend, duplicate,

Or show your desktop only on the secondary display.

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Aero Snap Irritations


Windows 7's new ability to move and resize windows, all in one movement, can be a genuine productivity boost. But if you find windows moving around when you don't expect it then Aero Snap is more of an annoyance than anything else, though at least it's one you can disable in just a few seconds.

Launch Control Panel, click Ease of Access, and select either "Change how your mouse works" or "Change how your keyboard works". Then browse down to the "Make it easier to manage windows" section, check "Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen", click OK, and program windows now won't go anywhere unless you specifically command it.

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Missing Explorer Folders



Click Start > Computer in Windows 7 and you'll find system folders like Control Panel

And the Recycle Bin are no longer displayed in the left-hand Explore pane.

This seems like a backward step to us, but there's a quick solution. Click Tools > Folder Options,

Check "Show all folders", click OK and all your top-level system folders will reappear.

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Too Many Minidumps


By default Windows 7 now keeps the last 50 minidump files (memory images saved when your PC crashes).

If you're keen on using dump files to troubleshoot crashes then this is good news,

But if you've no interest in that kind of advanced debugging then minidumps are just a waste of your valuable hard drive space.

In which case you should run REGEDIT, browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\CrashControl,

And set MiniDumpsCount to 1. Windows will only now keep the last dump file,

And you'll free up a little hard drive space.

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HP Multifunction Printer Problems


If you've an HP multifunction printer with its "Full Feature Software solution",

Or "Basic Driver solution" installed then, after upgrading to Windows 7,

You may find the printer stops working. Press the buttons on the front of the printer,

And nothing will happen; launch the software manually and you'll see reports that it can't connect to your hardware.

The problem is that a few files and Registry entries have been lost in the migration to Windows Vista,

And even reinstalling the original HP software won't help.

Fortunately there's a new version of HP Solution Center that should get everything working again, though,

And you can find out more about it at the HP support site.

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Hidden Extensions


Explorer's default settings in Windows 7 hide file extensions, as well as system files and folders.

To fix this, launch Explorer and click Tools > Folder Options > View.

Clear the "Hide extensions for known file types" to show file extensions, reducing the likelihood that you'll accidentally double-click on virus.txt.exe in future.

And as long as there are no novice users on your system who might go poking around in Explorer,

We'd also choose to "Show hidden files and folders",

As well as clear the "Hide protected operating system files" box.

It's often important to see these files when you're troubleshooting,

Or following problem-solving instructions from someone else.

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Add Windows Media Center To AutoPlay Options



Windows 7 includes Media Center, but for some strange reason you can't choose it as an AutoPlay handler.

The only standard program that can be launched to play DVD-Video discs, say, is Media Player, which seems an odd limitation.

Fortunately there's no fundamental change that's preventing this from working,

It's just that Windows 7 doesn't contain the required Registry entries. If you've a Windows Vista PC to hand,

Then you could export these yourself: just go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers

And save all the keys and values beginning with EHome.

Windows expert Ramesh Srinivasan has done the hard work already, though,

So it's probably easier to download the .REG file from him.

Take a look at Srinivasan's Winhelponline to find out more.

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Missing Crash Dump Files


Impressive though Windows 7 is, it'll crash sometimes, and if you've installed diagnostic software like the Windows debugging tools,

Then you'll want the crash dump file to hand for further investigations. And yet in some situations you'll find the memory.dmp file never appears.
So what's going on?

First, click Start, right-click Computer and select Properties > Advanced System Settings > Startup ,

And Recovery Settings. Make sure that "Write debugging information" is set to something other than "none",

And that "Dump file" is the default "%SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP".

If that's all correct then check your free hard drive space. If your system isn't on a domain,

And has less than 25GB free, then Windows 7 will no longer keep a crash dump file.

If you'd like to change that, launch REGEDIT, browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\CrashControl,

Create a new DWORD value called AlwaysKeepMemoryDump, set it to 1,

And in future the crash dump file will always be preserved.

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Can't Disable Hibernation






Windows 7 doesn't make it easy to turn off hibernation,

Annoying if you never use it as you'll permanently have a "hiberfil.sys" file taking up a sizeable portion of your hard drive.

To rectify this situation, launch REGEDIT, browse to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Power, and set HibernateEnabled to zero.

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Poor Video Quality



The new Windows 7 power plan settings affect more of your software than ever before.

If you notice video playback quality seems poor, for instance, then click Start,

Type Power Options and click the Power Options link. Click Change Plan Settings for your currently selected plan,

Click Change Advanced Settings, expand the Multimedia Settings section,

And make sure "Playing video" is set to "Optimise performance".

Alternatively, if you often play video on a laptop, then change the new setting to "Optimise performance" ,

And you may see an improvement in battery life.

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Where's Software Explorer?


If you've ever played with Windows Defender on Vista then you'll have probably noticed the Software Explorer feature,

A very useful way to find out and control exactly what's launched on your PC when Windows starts.

So it's a little annoying to see this has disappeared in the latest version, leaving you with only the aging MSCONFIG to control your startup programs.

We'd recommend you download and use Autoruns, then, instead.

It's rather more technical than Software Explorer, but nothing else provides quite as much useful detail on the add-ons,

And extensions you'll be loading when Windows, Explorer and your browser are launched.

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START UP: Autoruns shows all the programs that will load when your PC starts.

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Explorer Navigation



The Windows 7 version of Explorer has partly disconnected its two panes,

So if you're double-clicking your way down a complex set of folders in the right-hand pane,

The left hand tree won't always expand to follow you.

This may improve performance a little, but it also means that you won't always be able to see the complete folder structure unless you expand it manually,

Which on balance seems a bad idea. If you agree then click Organize > Folder and Search Options,

Check "Automatically expand to current folder", and click OK to restore normal operations.

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Windows Live Messenger And The System Tray


Close Windows Live Messenger on Windows 7 and it'll display its icon on the taskbar,

Chewing up useful application space, rather than in the system tray where many believe it belongs.

Fortunately there's a very quick fix: right-click the shortcut to Windows Live Messenger,

Click Properties > Compatibility, check "Run this program in compatibility mode for" ,

And choose "Windows XP (Service Pack 3)" from the list. Close Messenger,

And its icon should now appear in the system tray, just as you'd expect.

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Speed ​​up Windows 7 Simple Ways

speed up windows 7? How to speed up Windows 7? That question often raised by early users of Windows 7 operating system. But my question of whether Windows 7 is not quite fast with at least 2GB of memory and the processor core 2 duo? It seems we are never satisfied with the speed of the computer. There are many ways to add speed windows 7, there is via regedit settings, through the startup settings, gpedit settings and others. In this article I will try to give you 3 simple steps to speed up Windows 7 specifically for the beginner class to learn the computer.
NOTE: if you are a beginner in tinkering with regedit, regedit backup first before you do the following test.
How to backup regedit;

A. Click [Start] then type [regedit] in the search box
2. From the windows registry click [Computer] are usually the top
3. After that click on [File] and select [Export]
4. In the new window give a name and save your regedit backup in place that you will remember.
5. Click [Save] and close the regedit window.

Speed ​​up booting Windows 7
Measures;

A. Click [Start] then type [msconfig] in the Search box and press [Enter]
2. Select it and click the [Boot]
3. Click the [Advanced Options ...]
4. In the window [Boot Advance options] check on [Number of proccessors]
and select 2 or 4 of dropdowsn menu (but you can only choose it if you use a dual-core processor or quad-core).

Speed ​​up Taskbar Thumbnail Preview

A. Click [Start] then type [regedit] in the search box.
2. Once the window is open regedit, go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelMouse
3. Double-click on [MouseHoverTime] and change the value to 100 or smaller
4. Click [Ok], then close the regedit window.
5. Now, thumbnail previews will appear more quickly.

Shutdown speed up Windows 7

A. Please open the registry editor by typing [regedit] in the search box and press [Enter]
2. Entered into; [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl]
3. Double click on the words [WaitToKillServiceTimeOut]
4. The default value is usually the equivalent of 12 000 to 12 seconds. Change the value the be between 5000-7000. Do not be too small because it can mean coercion.

Good luck

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