Category: Windows 7

The Program Compatibility Assistant in Windows 7 detects known compatibility issues in older programs. After you have run an older program in Windows 7, it notifies you if there is a problem and offers to fix it the next time you run the program. If you install programs often, then this can become a nuisance for you as it often shows warning messages about program compatibility. If you find the Program Compatibility Assistant to be a headache, then you can disable it.

Some of us want to make a regular backup of some important files (or run some other task) each time automatically when we shutdown the computer. You can do so easily in Windows 7 by utilizing the shutdown script feature in the Group Policy Editor.

When you right click on an item (file or folder) in Windows 7, you are shown a context-menu. One sub-item of this context menu is Send To which is useful to copy a file over a device or special folder. You can follow these steps to disable this Send To from the context menu.

Although Windows 7 supports a wide range of bluetooth dongles, yet there are some bluetooth dongles for which installation of drivers fails. But you can make Windows 7 install the default Microsoft bluetooth drivers using the Bluetooth Drivers Installer tool.

Windows 7 shows all the running applications in the taskbar in form of buttons. The width of these buttons decreases as more and more applications populate the taskbar. The default minimum width of these taskbar buttons is 225 pixels. But you can increase or decrease this minimum width if you want.

When you encrypt files in Windows 7, it requires an encrypting file system (EFS) certificate which is issued to you by Windows 7. A recovery certificate is a special EFS certificate you can use to recover encrypted files if your encryption key is lost or damaged. You can create a recovery certificate very easily.

Every user in Windows 7 has his/her own encrypting file system (EFS) certificate which is used to encrypt the files. A recovery certificate is a special EFS certificate you can use to recover encrypted files if your encryption key is lost or damaged. Before you can use a recovery certificate, you have to install it on your computer.

These days, when there are many secure, robust and fast web browsers like Opera, Chrome, Safari and Firefox are available, who needs the sloppy Internet Explorer? If you are using one of these third-party web browsers, then you may want to get rid of Internet Explorer. Though, it may seem impossible or very difficult to remove Internet Explorer, but you can easily uninstall it from Windows 7.

As you use more and more programs in Windows 7, it puts a shortcut to recently used program in the Start Menu. There is no official method to clear this list. But there is a workaround to clear this recently used programs list shown in the Start Menu.

If you are seeing mixed up or misplaced icons in your Windows Explorer – for example, Notepad icon for picture files, Internet Explorer icon for text files etc. – then it may be a case of corrupt icons cache. Sometimes Windows’ icons cache gets corrupted and you see mixed up icons in Windows Explorer for different kind of files. The icon cache can be rebuilt using the following process.