Category: Windows 7

Windows Vista and Windows 7 both have the useful feature of Taskbar Previews. Just hover your mouse cursor over a window shown in the taskbar and it shows a tiny preview thumbnail of the actual window without any need to switch to that window. The time taken for the thumbnail to show is 400 milliseconds by default. But if you do not want to wait for 400 milliseconds (less than half a second), then you can decrease (or increase) this time using a registry hack.

Windows 7 has an amazing feature called Jump Lists. The Jump Lists give you quick and easy access to more frequently opened documents, web sites etc. by a program. By default, you are shown only last ten opened documents or web sites. But if you want, you can increase the number of recent items shown in a Start Menu Jump List.

Windows 7 has native ISO image support. You can just double-click on any ISO image file and burn it onto a blank CD or DVD using inbuilt Windows 7 Disc Image burner application. But if you install a third party application like WinRAR which supports opening ISO files as an archive, then the association of ISO images to native Windows Disc Image burner application is broken. If you want, then you can restore this ISO image file association back to Windows Disc Image burner.

Windows 7 allows you to delete the Recycle Bin from the desktop if you want to. Just right-click on the Recycle Bin icon on your desktop and select Delete. This would delete the Recycle Bin from the Windows desktop. If you have deleted the Recycle Bin (whether intentionally or accidentally) from your desktop, and you want to make it re-appear and restore it, then this article is for you.

Network discovery in Windows 7 is a network setting that affects whether your computer can see or find other computers and devices on the network and whether other computers on the network can see your computer in return. This feature is enabled by default, but if you are concerned about system security then its a good idea to disable this setting.

Modern day LCD monitors come with a desktop stand which enables them to be rotated at any angle you want. Microsoft Windows 7 also makes use of this feature to allow you to rotate your Windows display in two modes – landscape mode and the portrait mode. In the landscape mode the height is less compared to the width. In the portrait mode the height is more compared to the width.

After you have installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 on your computer, you must activate it or it will expire and stop working after thirty days. You are given a choice of activating the Windows 7 over the internet or through the telephone. Microsoft has also put a restriction on how many times you can use your Windows license key for activating Windows in order to curb the piracy.

CCleaner is a freeware tool from Piriform which allows you to clean the history of all kinds in Windows including the browser history. It is a nice idea to run CCleaner everyday and get rid of all the junk that gets accumulated in your computer as you surf the Internet. Even better is to run CCleaner and then automatically shutdown Windows so that CCleaner cleans your computer and turn off your computer.

Windows 7 lets you specify power schemes for your computer so that you can choose to run your computer at optimum power consumption suitable for your computer usage. But some people are not satisfied with just one power scheme and they need to switch between two or more power schemes. This is a difficult task if you go through the control panel and change power scheme. But using our little tool – Power Scheme Switcher, you can switch between power schemes easily and quickly.