Category: Windows 7

How to open an elevated command prompt in Windows 7. This command prompt has administrator level access, so you can use all those commands that only an administrator can run.

The About Windows dialog is a dialog that tells about the Windows version you are running, the registered username and the the registered organization. You can open this About Windows dialog box in many ways as described in this article.

Microsoft Windows 7 comes on a bootable DVD, using which you can install Windows 7 on your computer. But Microsoft has created a tool that allows you to create a bootable Windows 7 USB pendrive using which you can install Windows 7. The main reason for this is slower data transfer from DVD drives compared to USB pendrives. This article tells you how to create a bootable USB disk for Windows 7.

Access all the features of windows 7 on your desktop using a tool called Windows in a Box. This saves you from all the struggle you normally do for changing a Windows setting.

Windows enthusiasts have found a hidden feature in Windows 7 (which also works in Windows Vista). They have renamed it the Windows’ God Mode. It lets the users access all the settings of Windows from a single folder. It works in all versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Windows 7 brings a new and improved User Account Control (UAC) which is much better than the UAC we have seen in Windows Vista. So you might not want to turn it off. But if your are determined to turn off the User Account Control feature in Windows 7.

Windows 7 hides important files and folders by default. Also you cannot see any hidden file in Windows Explorer by default. But you can change the settings to make Windows Explorer show hidden files and folders.

Windows XP has a File menu in Windows Explorer windows. But in Windows 7 and Windows Vista, menus are turned off by default. But you can make menus appear in the Windows’ Explorer as in Windows XP and older versions. You can temporarily or permanently turn on the file menu, in Windows 7 following these steps.

Windows 7 desktop comes with a desktop clock at the bottom-right of your screen. But you can add two extra clocks with different time zones in Windows 7. This is very useful if you want to see the time of more than three time zones in your computer.

In Windows XP, there was a useful right-click context menu feature called Copy to using which you could right click on any folder or file and then select the target folder to copy the selected item to the target. You can add same functionality in Windows 7.