Category: Windows 7

One of the features introduced in Windows Vista and enhanced in Windows 7 is the support for virtual hard disks (VHD). A virtual hard disk is an image file of a hard disk just like an ISO file is a CD/DVD image file. In Windows 7, you can create a VHD and attach it to your system.

Windows Logo key is the key on your keyboard between the left Ctrl and left Alt keys. On most of the keyboards it is also present to the right of the right Alt key. Because most of the new keyboards come with this key, Microsoft has increased the number of keyboard combination shortcuts that use the Windows logo key.

Microsoft releases updates to Microsoft Windows on the first Tuesday of every month. If you have not set up your Windows to update automatically, then your computer may be lacking some critical hotfix. This can make your system vulnerable to hacking attacks or malware infections. You should set your computer to update automatically. This is how

If you want to go out for a cup of coffee or you want a break so you can run to the rest room, but you do not want anybody to use your computer behind your back, then you can either log off your computer or lock it. The benefits of locking is that all the programs keep running as they were when you unlock the computer.

So you want to run your old computer game from the late 1990s on your new computer running Windows 7? Is it refusing to run ? Do not despair. There is a way to make the older programs run on Windows 7. Here is how.

Windows 7 comes with a lot of bells and whistles. Windows Aero is one of those eye candies that make Windows look cooler. But you can disable modern themes and use Windows 7 in the classic Windows 98 style theme making Windows 7 even faster.

Windows 7 allows you to create a system image of your hard disk. In case of a disaster like virus attack or hard disk failure, you can use this image to restore your system back to as it was – all the programs, documents and settings restored. You can create this system image on a hard disk, a DVD disk or a network location (on ethernet). This is how you can create a system image in Windows 7.

Windows 7 automatically defragments your primary hard disk drive every week. But what if you have more than one hard disk drive ? Do not worry, you can schedule all your hard disk drives to be defragged with Windows 7. Windows 7 disk defragmenter can defrag all the hard disk drives at the same time.

On the Windows logon screen, a user has to enter a username and password. If you are an administrator and a user has forgotten his/her account’s password, you may want to remove his/her password to let that user logon again. This article tells you how to remove password from a user account in Windows 7.

Although Windows 7 comes with a built-in firewall, it does not provide you with as many control features as a commercial firewall does. In addition, Windows firewall allows all the Microsoft programs, by default. But now you can control which programs Windows 7 gives network access and which kind of access is to be granted.