Category: Windows 7

Windows 7 lets you choose a time zone during Windows installation. But you can change the time zone even after the installation. You can change and select the time zone using a command line tool called Windows Time Zone Utility.

The colors you see on your screen will vary depending on your monitor, graphics cards settings, lighting and more, yet most people use the same default Windows color profile. And that means a digital photo you think looks perfect might appear very poor to everybody else. Fortunately Windows 7 now provides a Display Color Calibration Wizard that helps you properly set up your brightness, contrast and color settings.

Windows 7 shows really nice folder icons. But if you decide to spice it up and use your own folder icons, then you can do it very easily by editing some registry values. You can do this easily by following steps given in this article.

Windows 7 shows really nice folder icons. But if you decide to spice it up and use your own folder icons, then you can do it very easily by editing some registry values. You can do this easily by following steps given in this article.

When you install a new device or insert a USB device, Windows 7 usually automatically installs the drivers for that device. If Windows cannot find the drivers, it pops up a dialog box asking you whether you want to search the driver for this device online. You can enable Windows 7 to continually look for newer drivers online by using Windows Update.

Various device managers keep updating and releasing the updated drivers for their device from time to time. These updated drivers often provide better device functioning under Windows and may also make available some more features which were not available in the older drivers. Sometimes, updated drivers also patch a previously existing flaw in the old driver.

Disk Burn feature in Windows 7 allows you to burn files to a disk right from the Windows Explorer. It is a useful tool if you continuously want to save backups of your files and documents on disks. Some people may have installed other commercial software like Nero Burner or Roxio Burner or they find it annoying and would want to turn off this feature.

Over time, your hard disk gets cluttered with all kinds of junk data. You should regularly free space on your hard drive to keep your PC running well. If you start getting warnings that your hard drive space is running low, follow these steps

hen you copy files from one location or folder to another in Windows, files are copied sequentially, i.e., one by one. This takes a lot of time if you have to copy thousands of files. But there is a way in Windows 7, which enables you to copy multiple files at the same time in multiple-threads.

Windows uses online time servers to keep the correct time on your computer. But Windows uses its own time servers to adjust the time periodically. Unfortunately, these Microsoft servers do not work always. Sometimes they are very slow to respond. But you can change the time servers to faster and free time servers available on the internet.