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Windows 7 Tips: Change Default Save Location For Files
Published on 2011-08-26 18:43:00
Windows 7 is a bit different from Vista, because it saves Documents, Pictures, Videos and Music under the Public folder inside C:Users. You might not want to save your documents, pictures, videos or music to this location, but create your own locations and you can do it quite easy.Press the Windows Key, click your username and double-click on the folder you wish to change. Then you will see Includes: 2 library locations. Click on that text, right-click on the folder you wish to set like default
Windows 7 Tips: Improve Desktop Window Manager For Nvidia Graphics
Published on 2011-08-20 19:40:00
Sometimes the animations for Desktop Window Manager don’t look very well and aren’t smooth enough and this is cause because Desktop Window Manager renders effects with no transparency and blurring, but you can turn off animations for more pleasant graphics.To do this, Press the Windows Key, right-click on Computer, go to Properties -> Advanced System Settings -> Performance -> Settings and clear “Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing”. Click OK to finish.
Windows 7 Tips: How To Use Virtual Hard Disk Files
Published on 2011-08-14 22:28:00
You can now create and manage virtual hard disks files in Windows 7 as if they were real disks. This can allow you to use a live Windows installation on the virtual disk without the need to boot the virtual Computer. To create a virtual disk you have to press the Windows Key, right-click on Computer, then go to Manage -> Disk Management -> Action -> Create VHD. There you can specify the location and size of your virtual hard disk file.To attach the virtual disk file, press the Windows K
Windows 7 Tips: How To Remove The Sidebar
Published on 2011-08-08 20:25:00
Windows 7 doesn’t seem to feature the sidebar anymore, but it still exists and runs in the background, being launched automatically at startup. So if you want to get rid of it, there are two ways on how to remove the sidebar.The easier one is to press the Windows Key, (or click Start), in the search box, type MSCONFIG.EXE, click the Startup tab and clear the Sidebar box.The hard way is to press the Windows key, type “regedit”, find and delete the registry key at HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftware
Windows 7 Tips: Media Center Automatic Download
Published on 2011-08-04 03:24:00
Windows Media Center 12 allows you to schedule data downloads, so it can be done without disturbing you. To do it, go to Tasks -> Settings -> General -> Automatic Download Options and you can configure it to start and stop the download whenever you want.
Windows 7 Tips: How To Make Internet Explorer 8 Load Faster
Published on 2011-07-30 21:22:00
If you want Internet Explorer 8 to load faster, you need to disable the add-ons that slow it down, so go to Tools -> Manage Add-ons and check the load time for each one.You can choose for yourself the ones you can live without and ones that would increase the load speed.
Windows 7 Tips: Advanced Disk Defragmentation
Published on 2011-07-26 20:20:00
Fortunately, Windows 7 offers much better defragmentation than Vista and also lets you configure it a bit from the command line.To activate advance disk defragmentation feature, press the Windows Key and then type “CMD”. You can defragment your hard disk from the command line by typing “defrag” and you have the following options: “/r” will defrag multiple drives simultaneously, “-a” performs a defrag analysis, “-v” prints the report, “-r” treats files with at least 6
Windows 7 Tips: Turn Off Recent Search Queries Display
Published on 2011-07-22 22:17:00
Windows 7 holds and displays the recent search queries by default. This can often prove to be irritating. No need to stress though because it can be disabled.To turn off recent search queries display, Press the Windows Key, type “gpedit.msc”, then go to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Explorer and double click on “Turn off display of recent search entries”.
Windows 7 Tips: Configure Your Music Favorites
Published on 2011-07-19 19:13:00
The Windows Media Center creates a list of favorite songs based on how often you play them, your ratings and date you’ve added them. If you aren’t comfortable with the way they thought it out, change the way it sorts your favorites by going to Tasks -> Settings -> Music -> Favorite Music.
Windows 7 Tips: Mouse Gestures
Published on 2011-07-15 22:01:00
Windows 7 has not only brought gestures for those who use touchscreen devices, but for mouse users too. So, instead of right-clicking a Taskbar icon to access the jump list, you can hold left-click and drag upwards to smoothly call it up.In addition, clicking and dragging down the address bar in Internet Explorer will open the browsing history. There might be more gestures yet not discovered.