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More and more users are switching to 64-bit version of Windows these days. The obvious advantage of 64-bit Windows over 32-bit is that the former one can utilise more than 4GB of RAM efficiently.
So if you are planning to purchase a 64-bit Windows 7 copy and would like to know if your system is ready for the same or not, you can use the tiny BITS tool. BITS is a portable tool for Windows 7, Vista and XP to know your system’s compatibility with 64-bit Windows.
Download, extract and simply run the tool to know about your CPU type (32 or 64), your current Windows… Continue reading
Weather Center is an awesome application to view the current weather conditions in a jiffy. The tool displays the current temperature in the system tray area and is fully customizable.
Upon running the tool for the first time, you will be given an opportunity to to setup the tool by entering your current location. Once done, you can view the current temperature in system tray area and also can view addition information such as dew point, sun rise time, sun set time, humidity and more by opening Weather Center window.
Key features:
- Up-to-date weather information
- Weather alert options
- Weather data format
Rafael Rivera and Zheng have released a handy application for Windows 7 called Geosense, a Windows Sensor, that provides the Location and Sensors platform in Windows 7 with accurate and reasonably ubiquitous positioning information without requiring or the assistance of GPS hardware, enabling more practical location-based applications and scenarios on Windows 7.
Geosense is available for both x86 & x64 versions of Windows 7. You can download the setup file from the link mentioned below. More information is available at the Geosense download page.
For many Windows 7 users, Jump Lists feature may be just another Windows 7’s feature. But if you know how to use it efficiently it will help you boot productivity dramatically. For instance, you can pin your favorite file and folders to a related Jump List to open a file or folder effortlessly right from the Taskbar.
But you can’t easily add files, folders and program to a single Jump List by default. You need to use third-party tools to make it happen. Here is one such tool that aids you in creating custom Jump Lists. And you can also use this tool in Vista and XP as the program doesn’t actually use Windows 7’s Jump List Feature… Continue reading
We have already shown how to recover Windows 7 product key using KeyFinder tool. Like KeyFinder, Windows Key Finder is another handy tool to quickly recover lost Windows 7, Vista or XP key in a jiffy.
Windows Key Finder program simply decodes the encoded product key stored at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion node of the registry in a value called DigitalProductId.
This is a standalone tool and simple-to-use as well. Download, extract and run the utility to view your Windows product key. Note that this tool only retrieves Windows product key and can’t be used to recover Microsoft Office product key.
The program also displays some valuable information like your Windows install date, system type, OS build number, total… Continue reading
In the past, we covered several free tools to edit context menu in Windows 7 and Vista. If you are not satisfied with those tools and still looking for a brilliant tool to do the same job, here is an awesome tool quickly customize context menu in Windows 7.
Context Menu Editor is a freeware tweaking utility to add/delete items to your desktop and folder context menu in Windows 7 and Vista (x86 & x64). With this tool, adding a new program or even our Software Blogging link to your desktop context menu (right-click menu) can be done with a few clicks.
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A few months back we covered how to change Windows 7 logon background without using third-party software and also covered over 5 applications to easily change logon screen background.
If you have customized logon screen background and then you might also like to customize logon screen text size. To make it happen simply follow the simple procedure given below.
1. Open Windows Registry Editor by typing regedit in Start menu search field and then hitting enter.
2. In the Windows Registry Editor, navigate to the following key:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
3. Here, in the right side, create a new DWORD value (32-bit)… Continue reading
Media Center 7 Sleep Timer is an awesome Media Center application (also works as add-in) to shutdown/hibernate your Windows 7 machine after a selected time interval.
Once you installed Sleep Timer, you can access it either from the Start menu or Extras Library in Media Center. The current version of Sleep Timer comes with five options: Shutdown in 60 minutes, Shutdown in 30 minutes, Custom timer, Shutdown at time, Monitor off, and Cancel timer.
The best thing about Sleep Timer is that you can customize almost everything from time settings and to the interface. You can change the default Shutdown in 30 minutes and 60 minutes options by editing the MC7 Sleep Timer Settings.cfg… Continue reading
Backing up Windows registry is always a good practice before making any changes to the Windows Registry as its health is crucial for the proper functioning of Windows. Although most of you know how to backup Windows Registry, still there are several Windows users who are unaware of the same.
To backup Windows Registry you need to have a third-party tool as well. It’s that simple!
How to backup Windows Registry:
Method 1:
1. Open Windows Registry Editor by typing regedit in Start menu search box and then hitting enter.
2. Click Yes if you are prompted with UAC (User Account Control) message.
3. Next, in the Registry Editor… Continue reading
PuraRa is a simple but effective tool to cleanup your Windows 7 operating system. The tool helps you clean files that are usually ignored by other popular system cleaning tools.
Download, extract and run the tool to start cleaning your Windows 7. Upon running the tool, you will be given options to select areas that you want to cleanup using PureRa. The current version (v1.5) allows you remove temporary files, recycle bin files, software distribution logs, Windows update installation files, WMI logs, .sqm file, config.msi, icon cache, thumbnail cache, and more.
This tool comes in handy when you want to repair icons in Windows 7 as the utility cleans icon and… Continue reading