Category: Windows 7

When a program crashes in Windows 7, Windows offers to submit an error report to Microsoft. If you get annoyed by these report submission requests, then you can disable this feature (you will still get a prompt to close the crashing program).

Windows 7 comes with a program called Windows Customer Experience Improvement program which silently collects your data (your hardware and how you use Windows) and sends it over to Microsoft. If you do not like this, you can always turn it off.

When you connect to a network, Windows 7 performs some tests to determine the type of connection

Windows Defender comes pre-installed with Windows 7. It is a utility to scan and remove malware and spyware which may creep into Windows from the internet. Since most of the anti-virus products like avast! come with an anti-spyware component of their own, you should disable Windows Defender to prevent to anti-spyware programs running at the same time.

You just finished your important report, left your computer for a minute and when you came back your little cute kid is has randomly pressed the Del key to delete the whole report! What a nightmare! You do not have to worry about this kind of situation, if you have installed Kid-Key-Lock.

If you are tired of the boring menus in Windows 7, you may want to add extra bling in them. Now you can make the menus transparent and even skin them using a little tool called Moo0 Transparent Menu.

You can customize how the Windows 7 looks in many different ways. You can change the color of windows, start menu orb and the taskbar. You can pick from a set of preset color sets or you can choose your own customized colors.

When you open a folder in Windows Explorer, you can choose to show the navigation pane which shows the tree-view of the folders leading to the current folder. You can also choose to automatically expand the navigation pane to current folder whenever you open a folder.

Windows 7 has a feature called volume shadow copy. If you change a good copy of a file with a newer copy, Windows 7 silently saves the older copy before replacing it with the newer copy – using the volume shadow copy feature. But you may want to turn off this feature, as it can soon fill up your hard disk.

The SuperFetch feature in Windows 7 pre-loads the most used programs, so that they start faster. But this can hog a lot of system resources trying to load most used programs every time you start Windows. Here is how you can turn it off