Category: Windows 7

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.

By default Windows 7 has only three programs in the standard quicklaunch taskbar : Internet Explorer 8, Windows Media Player 12 and Windows Explorer. But using a new feature in Windows 7 called Pin Up, you can pin any program to the taskbar.

After installation Windows 7 may show the time format in the standard military time format like 17:00 for 5 PM. But you can easily change the time format to everyday time format with AM/PM using the procedure in this article.

Windows XP and Vista had a Run command in Start Menu by default. In Windows 7, if you want the Run command then you have to set option for the Run command to appear in the Start Menu.

When you create a new user account in Windows 7, Windows assigns no password to it. It is up to you, to assign a password to an account. This article details how you can assign a password to a user account in 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.

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.

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