Category: Windows 7

Windows 7 offers a high number of Windows logo hotkeys. For example, you can press Windows logo key + R to open the Run dialog. If for some reason you want to disable these hotkeys, you can disable as shown below.

When you insert a software CD/DVD or USB stick with autorun commands stored in autorun.inf file, Windows executes the instructions in autorun.inf. This poses a great security risk. There are viruses which make use of this default Windows behavior to infect your computer. You can disable auto-running of the instructions stored in autorun.inf by using a local system policy.

The Windows Calculator is a nifty tool designed for doing all kinds of quick calculations. Windows Calculator is not like the calculator in the previous versions of Windows. It has many modes like standard, scientific, programmer and statistics.

Windows 7 (and Vista) show a preview window thumbnail when you hover your mouse over a minimized or hidden window icon in the taskbar. This is useful feature but it can become resource hungry if you open many windows at the same time. You can disable this feature if you do not like it.

If you do not want a program to run, you can lock it down using the AppLock feature in Windows 7. This is very useful if you have children in your home using your PC and you do not want them to open a browser to surf internet etc.

In the previous versions, you had to install registry hacks to add the Open command prompt here to the right click context menu. But you do not have to do this in Windows 7. It already supports opening the command prompt pointing to any folder.

If you have not disabled the UAC (user access control) and you want to run a program in the administrator mode, then you have to right-click on a program (or its shortcut) and select Run as administrator. But in Windows 7, you can set a program to always run in the administrator mode, without the need of right clicking on it.

Credential Manager allows you to store credentials, such as user names and passwords that you use to log on to websites or other computers on a network. If you want to add a new credentials (user name and password for a network or website) to the Credential Manager, follow these steps.

Credential Manager allows you to store credentials, such as user names and passwords that you use to log on to websites or other computers on a network. If you want to delete a stored user password from the Credential Manager, follow these steps.

When you hover your mouse over a minimized window button in the taskbar, a preview window is popped up. By default the time taken for this preview window to popup is 400 milliseconds (0.4 seconds). But you can make it shorter or longer, as per your wish.