Posts Tagged ‘windows 7’
There are some excellent, free tweaking tools available for Windows 7, and we have covered most of them. This time around, we have another powerful tweaking tool called 7Plus for the latest version of Windows.
Unlike, other tweakers, this tool helps you add tab feature to your Windows explorer. Apart from that, you can disable a few explorer hotkeys, change explorer behavior, tweak folder behavior, change desktop and taskbar settings and more. Keyboard addicts can use this tool to define new hotkeys to quickly launch programs.
Another interesting feature of 7Plus is that it enables you… Continue reading
The official Windows 7 personalization gallery had not been updated for almost four weeks. Microsoft just now added a beautiful theme named Surreal Territory to the gallery and is ready to download now.
Surreal Territory theme (by Chuck Anderson) contains six high resolution wallpapers (1920 x 1200) and can be downloaded from the link mentioned below. You might also like to download our 14 awesome Windows 7 themes. Download and double-click on the theme file to install and apply it.
Earlier this week, we blogged about a tool named Start Menu Organizer to keep your Windows 7 Start menu organized with a few clicks. But if you don’t like to use a third-party tool to organize your Start menu, you can manually organize it as well.
All start menu program shortcuts are stored in a folder named Start Menu in your OS drive. One can add, move or remove these shortcuts by navigating to Start menu’s sub folders.
1. Navigate to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu.
2. Double-click on Start Menu folder to see other subfolders such as Accessories, Administrator rights, and Maintenance. Programs that you… Continue reading
Posted April 8, 2010 – 6:00 pm in: Windows 7 Tweaks
Recently we blogged about how to rename default power plans in Windows 7. One of our readers has asked is it possible to delete one or more power plans present in Windows 7?
As you may know, one can easily delete newly created custom plans in Windows 7. But Windows doesn’t allow you delete the default power plans (Balanced, High Performance, or Power Saver).
In this guide we will show you how to delete default power plans in Windows 7.
# Open Command Prompt with administrator privileges.
# Type Powercfg List
Hide Media Center Strips is a tiny but handy utility for Windows 7 Media Center that allows you show/hide one or more menu strips quickly and easily.
This portable tool allows you hide a strip for the current user or guest user or for all users. Download, run this tool and then select the user for which you want to hide a menu strip.
With this you can hide/show almost all Media Center Menu strips including Movies, TV, Sports, Pictures, Videos, Tasks, Now Playing and more.
The download size is just 29 KB and is available to download from the link mentioned below… Continue reading
There are many reasons behind a corrupted system file. If you are getting an error something like “file missing or corrupted” message in Windows, you should try to repair one or more system files first.
But before you try third-party tools to repair system files in Windows 7, you must try a effective command line tool to repair corrupted system files.
In this guide, we will show you how to repair Windows 7 system files without using any third-party tools.
1. Type command prompt in Start menu search box and then hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter to launch the Command Prompt with administrator rights. Alternatively, go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, right-click on… Continue reading
Posted January 18, 2010 – 12:46 am in: Freeware
WinHotKey is a small software for Windows 7 and Vista to assign hotkeys to launch an application, document, folder, or automatically type some text.
The utility is extremely simple and easy-to-use. Creating a hotkey using this tool is very simple. You can include the Windows logo key and can also include any combination of Alt, Control, and Shift keys to assign a hotkey.
Once you install and run this utility, an icon will be placed in the system tray area so that you can access the settings… Continue reading
As you all know, the search box present in the Windows 7 Start menu is very useful to find a file or program quickly. Just entering a few letters will display a list of matching files, programs, documents, pictures, music and other files.
But if the Start menu search is not displaying the results correctly, you need to fix the problem by installing the released hotfix available for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
According to Microsoft support, sometimes the Start menu search displays only the category headings of the categorized search results are displayed, such as Programs, Control Panel, and Documents. To fix the problem, you can either opt for manual or… Continue reading
We all know how to hide Windows 7 taskbar by enabling the Auto-hide the taskbar option in Start menu properties. By hiding the taskbar you will be able to browse with more screen area. But it is a tedious task to open and change the settings again and again.
Taskbar Hider is a small utility for Windows 7 that aids you create a custom hotkey to show/hide taskbar. The utility is very simple and easy-to-use.
Download, extract and run this utility to see an Taskbar Hider icon in the system tray. You can use the default Windows + X… Continue reading
Unlike earlier version of Windows, Windows 7 taskbar is fully customizable. Windows 7 enthusiasts have created a few tools that allow you tweak and customize Windows 7 easily.
1. 7 Taskbar Tweaker: We blogged about this handy tool just a few days back. If you want to enable/disable on or more taskbar features, this is the perfect tool. For example, you can customize middle click behaviour, and enable disable thumbnail preview easily.
2. 7Stacks: 7 Stacks is a free application that lets you have stacks of icons in Windows 7 taskbar… Continue reading